scheme
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Medieval Latin schema (“figure, form”).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
scheme (plural schemes)
- A systematic plan of future action.
- A plot or secret, devious plan.
- An orderly combination of related parts.
- A chart or diagram of a system or object.
- (mathematics) A type of topological space.
- (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.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 101:
- (rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
[edit] 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.”
[edit] Synonyms
- (a systematic plan of future action): blueprint
[edit] Translations
a systematic plan of future action
secret, devious plan
orderly combination of related parts
chart or diagram
mathematics
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[edit] Verb
scheme (third-person singular simple present schemes, present participle scheming, simple past and past participle schemed)
- (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.
[edit] Translations
to contrive a plan