Plotting

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Plot \Plot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Plotting}.]
     To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on
     a plan; to delineate.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now
           standeth.                                --Carew.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  plot
       n 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
       v 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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  plotting
       See {plot}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "plotting":
     Byzantine, Machiavellian, artifice, cabal, calculating, collusion,
     collusive, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, connivent,
     conniving, conspiracy, conspiring, contrivance, contriving,
     counterplot, covin, deep-laid plot, designing, engineering,
     finagling, finesse, frame-up, game, intrigue, intriguing,
     little game, machination, maneuvering, manipulation, packed deal,
     packed jury, planning, plot, prearrangement, preconcertedness,
     premeditation, preordering, put-up job, rigged jury, rigging,
     scheme, schemery, scheming, setup, stacked deck, stratagem,
     stratagemical, trick, underplot, up to, web of intrigue,
     wire-pulling