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plot

noun
/plɒt/UK/plɑt/US/plɑt̞/

Etymology

From Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), and possibly Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄 (plat, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of noun sense 5. Noun sense 9 is a back-formation from for the plot.

  1. inherited from *plataz✻
  2. inherited from plot
  3. inherited from plot

Definitions

  1. The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded,…

    The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

    • If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.

  2. An area or land used for building on or planting on.

  3. A grave.

    • He's buried in the family plot.
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

      • I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.

    2. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise…

      A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.

      • The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
      • The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.
      • I have o'erheard a plot of death.

    3. Contrivance

      Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

      • a man of much plot

    4. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

      • And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.

    5. A plan

      A plan; a purpose.

      • no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls

    6. Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character

      Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.

      • Actor X has some great plot near the end of E07.

    7. To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).

      • They had plotted a robbery.
      • They were plotting against the king.

    8. To trace out (a graph or diagram).

      • They plotted the number of edits per day.

    9. To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).

      • Every five minutes they plotted their position.
      • This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.

The neighborhood

  • synonymlotan area of land

Derived

addle-plot, A plot, applot, Ashby plot, bagplot, barplot, beach ball plot, beanplot, bioplot, biplot, blobplot, box and whisker plot, box and whiskers plot, box plot, B plot, by-plot, doghouse plot, dotplot, emplot, Fermi-Kurie plot, forest plot, funnel plot, grass plot, green plot, Gunpowder Plot, heat plot, jitterplot, Joy plot, karyoplot, Kurie plot, line plot, lose the plot, macroplot, marplot, metaplot, microplot, mosaic plot, multiplot, plot armor, plot armour · +52 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at plot. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at plot. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at plot

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA