scheme

See also Scheme

English

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Etymology

From Medieval Latin schema (“figure, form”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːm
• IPA: /skiːm/

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Noun

scheme (plural schemes)

1. A systematic plan of future action.
2. A plot or secret, devious plan.
3. An orderly combination of related parts.
4. A chart or diagram of a system or object.
5. (mathematics) A type of topological space.
6. (UK, chiefly Scotland) A council housing estate.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 101:

     It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme.

7. (rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

Usage notes

In the US, generally has devious connotations, while in the UK, frequently used as a neutral term for projects: “The road is closed due to a pavement-widening scheme.”

Synonyms

• (a systematic plan of future action): blueprint

Translations

a systematic plan of future action

Basque: azerikeria (eu) Chinese: Mandarin: 計劃 (zh), 计划 (zh) (jìhuà) Czech: plán (cs) m. Dutch: plan (nl) Finnish: suunnitelma (fi) French: plan (fr) m.

Japanese: 計画 (ja) (けいかく, kēkaku), 企画 (ja) (きかく, kikaku), 案 (ja) (あん, an), 計画 (ja) (スキーム, sukīmu); (framework scheme) 枠組み (ja) (わくぐみ, wakugumi) Polish: plan (pl) m., program (pl) m. Russian: план (ru) (plan) m., программа (ru) (prográmma) f.

secret, devious plan

Chinese: Mandarin: 陰謀 (cmn), 阴谋 (cmn) (yīnmóu) Finnish: juoni (fi)

French: combine (fr) f. Japanese: 陰謀 (ja) (いんぼう, inbō), 計略 (ja) (けいりゃく, kēryaku) Russian: план (ru) (plan) m., замысел (ru) (zámys'el) m.

orderly combination of related parts

Finnish: rakenne (fi) French: schéma (fr) m.

Japanese: 体系 (ja) (たいけい, taikē), 構成 (ja) (こうせい, kōsē) Russian: структура (ru) (struktúra) f.

chart or diagram

Czech: schéma (cs) n. Finnish: kaavio (fi) French: schéma (fr) m.

Japanese: (chart) 表 (ja) (ひょう, hyō); (diagram) 図 (ja) (ず, zu); (chart and diagram) 図表 (ja) (ずひょう, zuhyō) Russian: схема (ru) (sχéma) f.

mathematics

Dutch: wiskunde (nl) Finnish: järjestelmä (fi)

French: schéma (fr) m. Japanese: 概型 (ja) (がいけい, gaikē)

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Arabic: مخطط (muχáʈʈaʈ) m. Serbo-Croatian: plan m. (1,2), shema f. (3,4) Mandarin: 方案 (fāng àn) Dutch: schema n., programma n. French: système m., schéma m. German: Schema n. Hungarian: terv

Italian: schema m. Korean: 계획 (gyehoek) Portuguese: esquema m. Spanish: esquema m. Swedish: schema n.

Verb

scheme (third-person singular simple present schemes, present participle scheming, simple past and past participle schemed)

1. (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.

Translations

to contrive a plan

Chinese: Mandarin: 陰謀 (cmn), 阴谋 (cmn) (yīnmóu), 密謀 (cmn), 密谋 (cmn) (mìmóu) Finnish: suunnitella (fi)

Japanese: 計画する (ja) (けいかくする, kēkaku suru) Russian: планировать (ru) (planírovat') impf.; замышлять (ru) (zamyšl'át') impf., замыслить (ru) (zamýslit') pf.

References

• Silva Rhetoricae