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1plot — [plät] n. [ME < OE, piece of land: some meanings infl. by COMPLOT] 1. a small area of ground marked off for some special use [garden plot, cemetery plot] 2. a chart or diagram, as of a building or estate 3. [short for COMPLOT] a secret,… …
2Draw — Draw, v. i. 1. To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well. [1913 Webster] Note: A sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind. [1913… …
3Draw! — Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern Produced by Ronald I. Cohen Written by Stanley Mann Starring Kirk Douglas …
4plot — [n1] plan, scheme artifice, booby trap*, cabal, collusion, complicity, connivance, conniving, conspiracy, contrivance, covin, design, device, fix, frame, frame up*, game, intrigue, little game*, machination, maneuver, practice, ruse, scam, setup …
5plot — plotful, adj. plotless, adj. plotlessness, n. /plot/, n., v., plotted, plotting. n. 1. a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, esp. a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government. 2. Also called storyline.… …
6plot — Synonyms and related words: acreage, acres, action, allotment, anagnorisis, angle, anticipate, approach, architectonics, architecture, area, argument, arrange, art, artful dodge, artifice, atmosphere, await, background, be destined, be fated, be… …
7plot — ▪ I. plot plot 1 [plɒt ǁ plɑːt] noun [countable] PROPERTY a small piece of land for building or growing things on: • a vacant plot (= empty piece of land ) • a plot of land [m0 …
8plot — [[t]plɒt[/t]] n. v. plot•ted, plot•ting 1) a secret plan or scheme to accomplish a usu. evil purpose 2) lit. the main story of a literary or dramatic work 3) a small piece of ground: a garden plot[/ex] 4) a measured parcel of land: a two acre… …
9Plot coupon — A plot coupon, and the somewhat less well known plot voucher , are the names given by literary critic Nick Lowe to specimens of plot devices in his 1986 essay, The Well Tempered Plot Device [http://www.ansible.co.uk/Ansible/plotdev.html]… …
10plot — plot1 [plɔt US pla:t] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(plan)¦ 2¦(story/film)¦ 3 the plot thickens 4¦(piece of land)¦ 5¦(drawing)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [: Old English; Origin: piece of land ] 1.) ¦(PLAN)¦ a secret plan by a group of people, to do somethin …
