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plot noun & verb1. LOE.
[Origin unkn.: cf. PLAT noun2. In branch II assoc. with COMPLOT noun.]
A. noun.
I.
A small piece of ground, esp. one used for a special purpose identified contextually; a place where plants of a specified kind are grown. Cf. PLAT noun2 1. LOE.
Law Reports A land company..sold the..land in building plots. B. Behan Dublin Corporation gave the men plots of one-eighth of an acre. P. Pearce There was a vegetable plot and..one flower-bed.
b. The site or situation of a town, city, etc. M16-E17.
W. Patten The plot of this Castell standeth so naturally strong. P. Holland They who founded it..were so blind..they could not choose it for the plot of Chalcedon.
c. A grave or area of graves, esp. as belonging to a particular family, in a burial ground. Orig. N. Amer. L19.
A small portion of a surface differing in character or aspect from the rest of the surface; a patch, a spot, a mark. LME-E19.
E. Topsell The horse will be..full of scabs and raw plots about the neck.
a. A ground-plan; a map, a chart; (chiefly US) a graph, a diagram, esp. as representing the relative positions of a number of ships, aircraft, etc. Cf. PLAT noun2 2. M16.
H. Wouk He saw Captain Hoban staring at the plot, where the destroyer's pencilled course was curving in.
b. Theatrical. A scheme or plan indicating the disposition and function of lighting and stage property in a particular production. M19.
T. Rattigan The lighting for this scene has gone mad. This isn't our plot.
c. The action or an act of plotting something on a graph; the result of this; (a curve on) a graph. E20.
Scientific American A plot of the data on a semilog graph.
d. A group of enemy aircraft as represented on a radar screen. RAF slang. M20.
R. Collier Every radar station reported a mass plot.
fig. A plan of the actual or proposed arrangement of something; a sketch, an outline. Cf. PLAT noun2 3. M16-E17.
A plan or scheme for the constitution or accomplishment of something; a design. Cf. PLAT noun2 3. obsolete exc. as passing into sense 7 below. L16.
R. Cudworth A design..of the Devil..to counter-work God..in the plot of christianity.
The plan or scheme of a literary work; the interrelationship of the main events in a play, novel, Film, etc. Cf. PLAT noun2 4. M17.
M. Warnock Every story needs a central figure and a plot. P. Lively Operatic plots are so satisfying. Everyone getting their just desserts.
II.
A secret plan, esp. to achieve an unlawful end; a conspiracy; (freq. with specifying word). Also joc., a sly plan, an innocent scheme. L16.
Gunpowder Plot, Popish Plot, Rye House Plot, etc. the Bye Plot: see BYE adjective. the Main Plot: see MAIN adjective.
W. Robertson The author of this dangerous plot was Charles, duke of Bourbon. A. Cross A clever plot, discrediting Janet and me.
Comb. & phrases: lose the plot colloq. lose the ability to understand or cope with what is happening, lose touch with reality; plot-line the main features of the plot of a play, novel, Film, etc.; a summary; plot-ratio: representing the density of building in a specified area of land.
b. verb. Infl. -tt-.
verb trans.
a. Make a ground-plan, map, or diagram of (an existing object); (freq. foll. by out) make a plan of (something to be laid out, constructed, or made); draw to scale; mark (a point or course) on a chart or diagram. Also, mark out or allocate (points) on a graph, make (a curve etc.) by marking out a number of points on a graph. L16.
W. C. Roberts-Austin The results..plotted into curves..form permanent records. E. J. Howard He'd plotted..the shortest course back Home. R. V. Jones A track of similar shape to that..we had plotted from the aerial photographs.
b. Make or draw (a plan, map, or diagram) by plotting. M19.
David Clark In plotting the map..distances and elevations..must be obtained.
c. Theatrical. Plan or devise (a stage production); arrange lighting and stage property for (a production). M20.
verb trans. Plan, contrive, devise, (something to be carried out or accomplished, esp. a crime or conspiracy); lay plans for. Also foll. by to do, that. L16.
Hugh Walpole He plotted to dethrone a princess. E. Edwards Whatsoever he had..plotted, he had never plotted treason.
verb trans. Devise or plan the plot of (a play, novel, Film, etc.). L16.
F. Brown A big difference in plotting soap operas and plotting magazine stories. absol.: Daily Telegraph Mrs Robins plots better but relies a bit much on coincidence.
verb intrans. Form a plan or plot, esp. for a crime or conspiracy; scheme, lay plans, contrive, conspire. E17.
M. L. King When evil men plot, good men must plan.
plotful adjective (rare) full of plots, scheming M18.
plotless adjective (a) without a plot or story, having no plot; (b) Ecology (of a method of sampling) not based on a defined unit of area: E18.
plotlessness noun (rare) E19.
plottable adjective able to be plotted M20.
plottage noun (a) (chiefly US) the size or value of a specified piece of land, regarded in terms of the area accumulated from its constituent plots (freq. in
plottage increment); (b)
a mess of plottage, a theatrical production with a poorly constructed plot (by analogy with mess of pottage s.v. MESS noun): M20.
plottingly adverb in a plotting manner M18.
plotwise adverb as regards or in terms of the plot of a novel etc. M20.

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