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Plots are schemes or secret plans, usually with harmful intent: The police uncovered plots against the mayor.
A plot is also the sequence of events in a story—the narrative structure that holds a novel, film, or play together.
Plot additionally means a small piece of land: a garden plot, a burial plot.
To plot is to plan secretly, to chart a course on a map, or to mark points on a graph.
The story had a thin plot but great characters.
Calculated strategy, often secretive
- machinationCrafty scheming, often hostile
- intrigueSecret plotting or fascination
- collusionFraudulent secret cooperation
- cabalScheming political faction
coup · assassination · treachery · betrayal · cover-up · espionage · sabotage · sedition
Sequence of fictional events
- arcCurved line segment
- climaxPoint of greatest intensity
- conflictOpposition between parties
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
twist · denouement · protagonist · antagonist · foreshadowing · exposition · pacing · tension
Edible plant part
- allotmentDesignated share or portion
- bedsFurniture for sleeping
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- soilGround matter for planting
seeds · harvest · compost · trowel · weeding · planting · community · urban
Data shown visually
- diagramSimplified explanatory sketch
- dataFacts for analysis
- pointsUnits of tally
- coordinatesLocation-specifying number pairs
axis · scatter · curve · line · visualization · mapping · graphing · statistical
scheme
Calculated strategy, often secretive
- machinationCrafty scheming, often hostile
- intrigueSecret plotting or fascination
- collusionFraudulent secret cooperation
cabal · coup · assassination · treachery · betrayal · cover-up · espionage · sabotage · sedition · treason
storyline
Sequence of fictional events
resolution · twist · denouement · protagonist · antagonist · foreshadowing · exposition · pacing · tension · backstory
vegetable
Edible plant part
- allotmentDesignated share or portion
- bedsFurniture for sleeping
- cultivationFostering growth through care
soil · seeds · harvest · compost · trowel · weeding · planting · community · urban · growing
chart
Data shown visually
coordinates · axis · scatter · curve · line · visualization · mapping · graphing · statistical · distribution
parcel
Wrapped item for shipping
allotment · subdivision · surveying · boundary · deed · zoning · cemetery · burial · graveyard · building
- vegetable gardeningtomatoes, carrots, lettuce, peppers, cucumbers
- divisionssection, sections, segment, segments, subdivision
- gravesgravestones, headstones, gravestone, tombstones, headstone
- schemesschemes, scheme, conspiracies, conspiracy, scams
- Behind the Scenesbackstage, stunt double, body double, understudy, stand-in
- tractstract, digestive tract, GI tract, intestinal tract, respiratory tract
plotssubplots
Secondary narrative threads
tangents · digressions · backstory · filler · asides
plotshonesty
Truthfulness, sincerity
transparency · openness · candor · straightforwardness · forthrightness
plotswilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
open land · expanses · commons · open range · public lands
- plot twistSudden narrative redirection
- the plot thickensSituation becomes more involved
- plot holeLogical flaw in narrative
- lost the plotBecame irrational or confused
- plot linesNarrative sequences in fiction
- mystery plotsIntrigue-driven narrative frameworks
plot, plotting, plotted, plotter, plotters, subplot, subplots, counterplot, counterplots