Look up: plot

1. Plot
   1) Any list of cues for effects used in the play. 2) The fundamental thread that runs through a story, providing the reason for the actions of the characters.
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2. plot
   [Noun] Plural form: plots. A small piece of land. . A secret plan made by a group of people. The story of a film or book.
   Example: I grow vegetables on my plot. The plot to rob the bank took months of planning. The film plot wasn't very good.
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3. Plot
   The provision of an extract of the data as a single plot or print on paper or similar medium.
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4. plot
   [n] - a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation 2. [n] - a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object 3. [n] - the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc. 4. [n] - a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) ...
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5. Plot
   An area of land that a property is to be built on or already occupies
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6. Plot
   Lighting term: the actual brightness settings of each lantern and the LX cues. Also used to describe the process of setting the cues. Can also be used as an alternative for "blocking", i.e. setting the actors in their positions on-stage at an early stage in rehearsal.
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7. plot
   The storyline in a novel, play, film, or other work of fiction. A plot is traditionally a scheme of connected events. Novelists in particular have at times tried to subvert or ignore the reader's...
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8. plot
   a unit is a person, animal, plant or thing which is actually studied by a researcher; the basic objects upon which the study or experiment is carried out Category: Mathematics • The area from which a tree or group of trees are sampled. Category: Botany and zoology • D.a relat...
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9. Plot
   Plot noun [ Anglo-Saxon plot ; confer Goth. plats a patch. Confer Plat a piece of ground.] 1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot . Shak. 2. A plantation laid out. [ Obsolete] Sir...
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10. Plot
    Plot transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Plotted ; present participle & verbal noun Plotting .] To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate. &...
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11. Plot
    Plot noun [ Abbrev. from complot .] 1. Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-h...
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12. Plot
    Plot (plŏt) intransitive verb 1. To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire. Shak. « The wicked plotteth against the just.» Ps. xxxv...
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13. Plot
    Plot transitive verb To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly. ' Plotting an unprofitable crime.' Dryden. ' Plotting now the fall of others.' Milton
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14. plot
    1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot. ... 2. A plantation laid out. ... 3. A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc, drawn to a scale. ... Origin: AS. Plot; cf. Goth. Plats a patch. Cf. Plat a piece of ground. ... 1. Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a compli...
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15. plot
    secret plan noun 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`
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16. plot
    plot of ground noun a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; `a bean plot`; `a cabbage patch`; `a briar patch`
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17. plot
    noun the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; `the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal`
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18. plot
    to find a ship's actual or intended course or mark a fix on a chart
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19. Plot
    • (v. i.) To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire. • (v. i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme. • (n.) A plan; a purpose. • (n.) A plantation laid out. • (n.) A plan or draught of a field,...
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20. plot
    in fiction, the structure of interrelated actions, consciously selected and arranged by the author. Plot involves a considerably higher level of ... [6 related articles]
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21. plot
    The sequence of events in a play, short story or novel (the structure of an action). Usually carefully arranged by the author. In longer pieces, esp. novels, we find more than one plot, i.e. subplots which interrupt the main plot for reasons of suspense.
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22. Plot
    The events in an individual narrative and how they are arranged. Arguably the plot and the story are not the same. E.M. Forster developed the argument that story and plot are distinct in his `Aspects of the Novel.` The events of a plot, according to Forster, are linked by a causal relationship but t...
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23. plot
    Type: Term Pronunciation: plot Definitions: 1. A graphic representation; (v) to construct such a representation.
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24. plot
    The storyline in a novel, play, film, or other work of fiction. A plot is traditionally a scheme of connected events. Novelists in particular have at times tried to subvert or ignore the reader's expectation of a causally linked story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, with no loose ends. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf wrote novels that e...
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25. plot
    To a fix a ship's course on a chart.
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