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plot is a noun and verb meaning "a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)". It carries 8 recorded senses.
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”
a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
“a bean plot”
“a cabbage patch”
“a briar patch”
a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
plan secretly, usually something illegal
“They plotted the overthrow of the government”
devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
“the writer is plotting a new novel”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for plot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.