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Plotter   /plˈɑtər/   Listen
Plotter

noun
1.
A planner who draws up a personal scheme of action.  Synonym: schemer.
2.
A clerk who marks data on a chart.  Synonym: mapper.
3.
A member of a conspiracy.  Synonyms: coconspirator, conspirator, machinator.
4.
An instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures.





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"Plotter" Quotes from Famous Books



... found the plotter entering the parlor of what once had been the establishment of T. Marshall, undertaker, now the Elite Colored Funeral Home, Marshall & Kivil, proprietors. These transformations had dated from the time Percy C. Kivil (Tuskegee '18) entered the firm. Here was no plain undertaker. Here ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... force of instinct is behind every purpose, every ambition, even though the individual himself has not the slightest idea of the force that is at work. This does not mean that instinct acts as a sort of cellar- plotter, roving around in a subconsciousness, or at least no such semi-diabolical personality need be postulated, any more than it need be postulated for the automatic mechanism that regulates heartbeat or digestion. ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson
... cannot be a political plotter, who would put innocent men in prison. Inez must be mistaken about him. ...
— The Motor Girls on Waters Blue - Or The Strange Cruise of The Tartar • Margaret Penrose
... England is a very good thing, if it were not attended with an ugly circumstance of returning to Ireland. It is a shame you do not persuade your ministers to keep me on that side, if it were but by a court expedient of keeping me in prison for a plotter; but at the same time I must tell you, that such journeys very much shorten my life, for a month here is very much longer ...
— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various
... made, you and I,' said the young rector at last with difficulty. 'Where you see temptation I see opportunity. I cannot conceive of God as the Arch-plotter ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward


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