plot
Nouns
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(n) 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
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(n) a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- a bean plot
- a cabbage patch
- a briar patch
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(n) the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal
- (n) a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
Verbs
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(v) plan secretly, usually something illegal
- They plotted the overthrow of the government
- (v) make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed diagram,
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(v) make a plat of
- Plat the town
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(v) devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- the writer is plotting a new novel