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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.
    Found on http://www.dramatic.com.au/glossary/glos

  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.
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  3. Plot
    The provision of an extract of the data as a single plot or print on paper or similar medium.
    Found on http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsit

  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) 5. [v] - plan secretly, usually something illegal
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. Plot
    An area of land that a property is to be built on or already occupies
    Found on http://www.whathouse.co.uk/advice/glossa

  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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/docs/teatre.rtf

  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...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  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 relatively small area of land. Category: Building industry • the plan or scheme of any litera...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  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 P. Sidney. 3. (Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/109

  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. « This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.» Carew.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/109

  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-house Plot . « I have overheard a plot of death.» Shak. « O, think what anxious moments pass between The b ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/109

  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. xxxvii. 12. 2. To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme. « The prince did plot to be secretly gone.» Sir H. Wott ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/109

  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
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/109

  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 complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some pu ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  16. plot
    plot of ground noun a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; `a bean plot`; `a cabbage patch`; `a briar patch`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  18. plot
    to find a ship's actual or intended course or mark a fix on a chart
    Found on http://www3.newberry.org/k12maps/glossar

  19. Plot
    `Plot` may refer to: * Plot (narrative), the order of events in a narrative. * Plot (architectural company), a now-defunct Danish architectural company. * a conspiracy * a chart or diagram * the output of a plotter
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot

  20. 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, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale. • (n.)...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  21. 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]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/80

  22. plot
    A graphical representation.
    Found on

  23. 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.
    Found on http://www.menrath-online.de/glossaryeng


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23 November 2009

This day in history:
At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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