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Meaning plot meaning

What does plot mean?
Definitions in simple English

plot Noun

— A plot is the course of a story. It is the main things that happen in a story. — A plot is a scheme for people to do something secretly.

plot

— noun (= game) a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) they concocted a plot to discredit the governor I saw through his little game from the start — noun (= patch) a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation a bean plot a cabbage patch a briar patch — verb plan secretly, usually something illegal They plotted the overthrow of the government — noun the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal — verb (= diagram) make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed — verb (= plat) make a plat of Plat the town — verb devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet) the writer is plotting a new novel — noun a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object

Synonyms plot synonyms

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plot English » English

scheme plan conspiracy intrigue conspire design lot contrive stratagem diagram devise trick site parcel map storyline outline chart story plot of land plat graph draw connive strategy region project machinate land complot scenario propose patch ground game field draft contrivance artifice ulterior motive tactics subject story line sketch secret plan schedule portion piece machination layout

Topics plot topics

What do people use plot to talk about?
Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

Land, property
Person Life Die

Grave

Conjugation plot conjugation

How do you conjugate plot?

plot · verb

Examples plot examples

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Simple sentences

I don't understand this novel's plot.
I saw through their plot at once.
They entangled him in a plot.
She's lost the plot.
The plot thickens.
I didn't like the plot of the movie.
This movie has a predictable plot.
This plot of land is my property.
This is a plot hole.
Who is behind the plot?
He was the brains behind the plot.
I think most of them took part in the plot.
The main idea of the plot is not clear.
They accused him of being part of the plot.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
The plot develops rapidly.
Did you find the plot of the play difficult to understand?
This movie follows the book's plot exactly.
This sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie.

Movie subtitles

Fileas Fogg and Red Bison plot the loss of Farandola.
The plot thickens for Sandro Grec.
I spied on him to learned that he has convened suspect people at the house of Gourdan, to plot against the Countess!
I haven't figured out the plot yet.
This is a plot, just between us.
Once the plot has been cleared they put up stone walls, without mortar.
The wall will protect the plot from winter floods.
That's my whole plot in a nutshell.
Louis was killed because he knew of a plot to assassinate Ropa.
This is a deep-laid plot.
You are in this plot.
Getting my father to get his father. to make him spend the Easter with us was a plot, wasn't it?
You got us involved in this fantastic plot, you might at least trust us.
Then there's the kind that, while it has no specific plot, does paint a series of, more or less, definite pictures.
The BoIsheviks organized a military plot against the legitimate authorities.
Mitzi, you've saved the plot of the story.
Louis Bernard was killed. because he knew of a plot to assassinate Ropa.
But I can't believe the intelligent men up North plot to destroy our sovereign rights.
You got us involved in this fantastic plot you might at least trust us.
You need to plot out a path and take it one step at a time.
But there was no possible way for me to fore tell the plot.
I suppose anybody's life would be a plot if it had an exciting finish. - Who sent you in here?
First is the kind that tells a definite story. Then there's the kind that, while it has no specific plot, does paint a series of, more or less, definite pictures.
Of course that's another plot entirely.
So among Florida's heroic salvage masters. appear lawless captains. who plot to destroy, for their own profit. the great ships they are pledged to save.
It's a plot against our child.
A plot fostered by that creature, whatshisname..?
But who cares if there's a plot or not When they've got a lot of dames?
Now, that's my whole plot in a nutshell.
Then we paid five hundred for you as the final installment on that plot of land at Marsh's subdivision.
If ever a plot need a twist, this one does. - Huh?
It's a plot against me!
What's the plot?

News and current affairs

The book's plot spans two centuries of revolution.
The world's governments will meet in Montreal at the end of November to plot the next steps, including specific measures that the world could adopt if the Bush administration abandoned its willful neglect of this critical issue.
Here, indeed, is a wonderful plot to force the State to retrench, but Italians shouldn't get their hopes up too early, for Italy's supreme court ruled that taxation is not for the people to decide.
For example, the alleged 2003 coup plot was supposedly discovered when CDs containing detailed preparations (including assassination teams and plans to bomb two mosques) were delivered to a virulently anti-military newspaper.
In addition to major internal contradictions and inconsistencies, the coup plot documents are full of references to entities that did not even exist in 2003, as well as to developments that took place later.
Yet al-Qaeda has not been subdued, as was shown by the recent plot to blow up United States-bound commercial flights from London.
And here the plot has thickened.
Germany, mindful of its recent history, does not want to be cast in the role of a hegemonic power; the current situation is not the result of some evil German plot.
But, viewed in a broader context, and using the logic of physics, important parts of the plot can be understood.
You can deplore such social feelings, as I do, but the myth of the Polish peasant hero standing against communist collectivization on his small private plot seems ineradicable, even if it is undeserved.
After all, part of the plot that culminated in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was hatched by an Egyptian living in Hamburg.
Obviously, the terrorist threat is real and endures, as the recent foiled plot in Germany attests.
That plot, which included a young German convert to Islam, showed once again that terrorists can threaten us from both without and within.
Every morning, Obama receives a briefing from men who warn him of every plot and conspiracy to kill Americans.
Let's roll up our sleeves together and plot a viable pathway to a safe and effective low-carbon economy.
This is as silly as contending that antiretroviral drugs won't work in the region, and that treating HIV is all a giant plot on the part of big pharmaceutical companies.
Thus, foreign aid was regarded as a plot to trap poor nations in a neo-colonial embrace.
In describing the tribunal as part of an Israeli plot, Nasrallah warned the government and other parties in Lebanon against cooperating with it, or accepting its verdicts.
One challenge is that part of the plot for the US and Clinton is being written by others.
For the moment, most of us have lost the historical plot.
Looking only at individual extreme events will not reveal their cause, just like watching a few scenes from a movie does not reveal the plot.
RIO DE JANEIRO - It seems like the plot of a horror movie - the type where a little-noticed glitch in the matrix threatens to cause global chaos.
Some of the punk-feminists' militant accusers saw in their choice of Christ the Savior a diabolical plot against not only Orthodoxy, but also Russia itself.
Indeed, the Turks have made clear that the Cyprus question is really a sub-plot of the much larger question of the whole relationship between Turkey and Europe.
Is China Losing the Diplomatic Plot?

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