plot

1 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" [syn: secret plan, game]

2 a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch" [syn: plot of ground, patch]

3 the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"

4 a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object

1 plan secretly, usually something illegal; "They plotted the overthrow fo the government"

2 make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows how things work or how they are constructed [syn: diagram]

3 make a plat of; "Plat the town" [syn: plat] [also: plotting, plotted]plotted adj : planned in advance; "with malice aforethought" [syn: aforethought(ip), planned]plotted See plot

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Verb

plotted

1. past of plot

admeasured, appraised, approaching, arranged, assessed, blueprinted, calculated, charted, coming, contrived, cooked-up, cut out, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, designed, desired, destinal, destined, determined, devised, emergent, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, figured, fixed, forthcoming, future, futuristic, gauged, hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, in the bag, in the works, known by measurement, later, mapped, measured, metered, methodized, nearing, on ice, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, organized, packed, planned, prearranged, preconcerted, precontrived, predicted, premeditated, preordered, probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, put-up, quantified, quantized, rationalized, rigged, scheduled, schematized, schemed, set, set-up, shaped, stacked, strategetic, strategic, sur le tapis, surveyed, systematized, tactical, to come, to-be, triangulated, ultimate, valuated, valued, worked out