Definition of Plot

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Definition of Plot

Plot

A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.

A plantation laid out.

A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.

To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.

Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.

A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

A plan; a purpose.

In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.

To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.

To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

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Plot Quotations

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.
Anne Rice

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Thomas Moore

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
William Shatner

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
Ben Stiller

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. Forster

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.
Tracey Emin

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.
Jim Jarmusch

Plot Translations

plot in Dutch is machinatie, intrige, konkelarij
plot in French is tracent, tracer, parcelle, conspiration, tracez
plot in German is graf.darstellen, Handlung, Entwurf, aufzeichnen
plot in Italian is congiura, parcella, complotto
plot in Latin is coniuro, coniuratio, insidiae
plot in Portuguese is lote
plot in Spanish is parcela, complot

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