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NGSL Rank: 1948
plot
plɒt Listen
Meanings
noun
  • a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful.
  • the main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
    E.g. the plot consists almost entirely of a man and woman falling in love
  • a small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening.
    E.g. a vegetable plot
  • a graph showing the relation between two variables.
verb
  • secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action).
    E.g. the two men are serving sentences for plotting a bomb campaign
  • devise the sequence of events in (a play, novel, film, or similar work).
    E.g. she would plot a chapter as she drove
  • mark (a route or position) on a chart.
    E.g. he started to plot lines of ancient sites

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