Plot Definition
plŏt
plots, plotted, plotting
noun
plots
A small area of ground marked off for some special use.
Garden plot, cemetery plot.
Webster's New World
An area or land used for building on or planting on.
Wiktionary
A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
American Heritage
The arrangement of the incidents in a play, novel, narrative poem, etc.
Webster's New World
A secret, usually evil, project or scheme; conspiracy.
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verb
plots, plotted, plotting
To scheme or conspire.
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To represent graphically, as on a chart.
Plot a ship's course.
American Heritage
To draw a plan or chart of (a ship's course, etc.)
Webster's New World
To mark the position or course of on a map.
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To make secret plans for.
To plot someone's destruction.
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Origin of Plot
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From Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground"), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch"), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags"), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land"), Gothic [script?] (plats, “a patch, rags"). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of the "secret plan" sense.
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old English
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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