Definition of Scheme

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Scheme

A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.

Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.

A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.

To form a scheme or schemes.

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Scheme Quotations

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Will Rogers

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Jonathan Swift

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
Rush Limbaugh

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Kurt Vonnegut

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke

My only scheme was to be a rapper.
Eminem

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
Quentin Tarantino

Scheme Translations

scheme in Afrikaans is projek, konsep, skema
scheme in Dutch is plan, blauwdruk, concept, ontwerp
scheme in Finnish is kaava
scheme in German is Schema, Entwurf, Schema, Plan
scheme in Italian is disegno, schema
scheme in Latin is propositum
scheme in Portuguese is esquema
scheme in Spanish is minuta, plan, esquema
scheme in Swedish is arrangemang

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