plot

See also płot

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /plɒt/, X-SAMPA: /plQt/
• (GenAm) IPA: /plɑt/, X-SAMPA: /plAt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology

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  (plats, “a patch, rags”). See also plat.

Noun

plot (plural plots)

1. The general course of a story including significant events that determine its course or significant patterns of events.
2. An area or land used for building on or planting on.
3. A plan to commit a crime.
4. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

Synonyms

• (course of a story): storyline
• (area): parcel
• (plan to commit a crime): conspiracy, scheme

Derived terms

• Gunpowder Plot
• lose the plot
• plotless
• subplot
• the plot thickens/plot thickens

Translations

course of a story

• Arabic: حبكة (ar) (ḥabka) f
• Catalan: argument (ca) m, trama (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 情节 (cmn); 剧情 (cmn) (of a film or play)

• Czech: obsah (cs) m, děj (cs) m
• Dutch: plot m/n, intrige, verhaal n
• Estonian: süžee (et), sündmustik (et)
• Finnish: juoni (fi)
• French: intrigue (fr) f
• Georgian: შინაარსი (ka) (šinaarsi)
• German: Handlung (de) f
• Greek: πλοκή (el) (plokí) f

• Hungarian: történet (hu)
• Icelandic: ráðabrugg (is) n
• Italian: trama (it) f
• Japanese: プロット (ja) (purotto)
• Polish: wątek (pl) m
• Portuguese: argumento (pt) m, trama (pt)
• Romanian: subiect (ro) n
• Russian: фабула (ru) (fábula) f, сюжет (ru) (sjužét) m
• Scottish Gaelic: gnìomhadh (gd) m
• Spanish: argumento (es) m, trama (es) f
• Swedish: handling (sv) c

area of land used for building on or planting on

• Czech: parcela (cs) f
• Dutch: perceel (nl) n
• Finnish: maapalsta (fi), tontti (fi), maatilkku (fi)
• French: lopin (fr) m
• Greek: αγροτεμάχιο (el) (agrotemáchio) n

• Icelandic: reitur (is) m, skiki (is) m, blettur (is) m, lóð (is) f
• Irish: (planting) ceapach (ga) f
• Russian: надел (ru) (nadél) m, делянка (ru) (deljánka) f, участок (ru) (učástok) m
• Spanish: plano (es) m, lote (es)

plan to commit a crime

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陰謀 (cmn), 阴谋 (cmn) (yīnmóu), 密謀 (cmn), 密谋 (cmn) (mìmóu)

• Czech: plán (cs) m, spiknutí (cs) n, komplot (cs) m
• Dutch: complot (nl) m, samenzwering (nl) f
• Esperanto: komploto (eo)
• Finnish: salajuoni (fi), rikossuunnitelma (fi), juoni (fi)
• French: complot (fr) m
• Greek: συνωμοσία (el) (synomosía) f
• Icelandic: ráðabrugg (is) n

• Italian: complotto (it) m
• Japanese: 陰謀 (ja) (いんぼう, inbō), たくらみ (ja) (takurami)
• Latin: coniūrātiō (la) f, insidiae (la) f pl
• Manx: cochialg (gv)
• Maori: kara (mi)
• Polish: spisek (pl) m
• Portuguese: complô (pt) m
• Romanian: complot (ro) n
• Russian: заговор (ru) (zágovor) m, сговор (ru) (sgóvor) m
• Spanish: complot (es) m
• Swedish: komplott (sv) c, sammansvärjning (sv) c

graph or diagram

• Czech: nákres (cs) m, výkres (cs) m
• Dutch: plot (nl), diagram (nl) n, grafiek (nl) m
• Finnish: kuvio (fi), graafi (fi), diagrammi (fi), käyrä (fi)
• French: diagramme (fr) m, graphique (fr) m
• Icelandic: teikning (is) f, graf (is) n

• Polish: wykres (pl) m
• Portuguese: diagrama (pt) m, gráfico (pt) m
• Russian: граф (ru) (graf) m, график (ru) (gráfik) m, диаграмма (ru) (diagrámma) f
• Spanish: gráfica (es) f, diagrama (es) m

Verb

plot (third-person singular simple present plots, present participle plotting, simple past and past participle plotted)

1. (transitive) To conceive (a crime, etc).

   They had plotted a robbery.

2. (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).

   They plotted the number of edits per day.

3. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).

   Every five minutes they plotted their position.

   • Carew

     This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.

4. (intransitive) To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.

   They were plotting against the king.

Translations

transitive: to conceive

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陰謀 (cmn), 阴谋 (cmn) (yīnmóu), 密謀 (cmn), 密谋 (cmn) (mìmóu)

• Dutch: bedenken (nl)
• Finnish: juonia (fi), suunnitella (fi)
• German: planen (de), ausarbeiten (de), entwerfen (de)

• Icelandic: brugga launráð (is)
• Portuguese: conceber (pt)
• Quechua: allwiy (qu)
• Romanian: urzi (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: kovati (sh), snuti (sh)

to trace out a graph or diagram

• Dutch: plotten (nl)
• Finnish: plotata (fi), piirtää (fi) käyrä (fi), piirtää (fi)
• French: tracer (fr)

• German: plotten (de)
• Icelandic: kortleggja (is)
• Portuguese: traçar (pt)

to mark a point on a graph

• Finnish: merkitä (fi)

• Portuguese: marcar (pt)

intransitive: to conceive

• Finnish: juonitella (fi)

• French: conspirer (fr)
• Maori: whakatakoto kara (mi)

Synonyms

• (conceive a crime, etc): scheme

Derived terms

• replot

Anagrams

• OLTP
• polt

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Albanian

Etymology

From plotë.

Adverb

plot

1. full, fully

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Czech

Noun

plot m

1. fence

Derived terms

• živý plot m

Related terms

• oplotit

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔt

Verb

plot

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of plotten
2. imperative of plotten

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plotъ

Noun

plot m (Cyrillic spelling плот)

1. fence

Declension

    declension of plot

	singular	plural
nominative	plot	plotovi
genitive	plota	plotova
dative	plotu	plotovima
accusative	plot	plotove
vocative	plotu/plote (?)	plotovi
locative	plotu	plotovima
instrumental	plotom	plotovima