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verb
noun
- A plot or scheme.
- The thin, sharp part of a colter.
- (architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
- (usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
- (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
- (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
- (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
- A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- The bit of a key.
- The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
- (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
- (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
- The blade of a sword.
- A latticed or woven structure.
- The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
- The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
- The blade of a saw.
- A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
- computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
- an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
- the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
- an interconnected system of things or people
- a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven)
- membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals
- an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
name
verb
verb
noun
- a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)
- A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
- (video games, slang) Clipping of platform game
- Clipping of platform
- A plot of land; a lot.
- Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
- A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
adj
adv
verb
- make a plot of
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
noun
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- A grave.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan; a purpose.
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
noun
- A plot or secret, devious plan.
- (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
- A systematic plan of future action.
- An orderly combination of related parts.
- (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
- (mathematics) A mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).
- (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate.
- A chart or diagram of a system or object.
- (UK, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
- a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- an elaborate and systematic plan of action
- a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
verb
verb
- (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- (transitive) To load with a pack.
- (transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
- (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
- (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- (transitive) To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
- (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
- (intransitive, LGBTQ, especially of a trans man or drag king) To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
- (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- (transitive, progressive aspect, slang) To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person.
- (transitive, US, chiefly Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
- (transitive) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
- (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data).
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
- (intransitive, of animals) To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
- (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
- (intransitive) To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
- (intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
- (transitive, figurative) To load; to encumber.
- (intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.
- (transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
- carry, as on one's back
- hike with a backpack
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- load with a pack
- fill to capacity
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- seal with packing
- press down tightly
- compress into a wad
- press tightly together or cram
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
- arrange in a container
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
noun
- A full set of playing cards
- A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- (roller derby) The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
- (slang) A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A shook of cask staves.
- (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
- (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
- (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- A multitude.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A flock of knots.
- (slang) A package of cigarettes.
- an association of criminals
- a large indefinite quantity
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
- a complete collection of similar things
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a group of hunting animals
noun
- An intricate plot to catch the unwary.
- The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
- (informal, usually in the plural) fuzzy inexact memories.
- One of its filaments; gossamer.
- (figurative) Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.
- A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
- (Internet slang, rare) A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited.
- a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider
- filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
- a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
noun
- A secret plot.
- a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
- (derogatory) A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
- An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.
- a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
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noun
verb
noun
- a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
- a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
- a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
- (law) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
- (linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
- (rare, collective) A group of ravens.
- (loosely) An agreement to work together to bring something about; an act or instance of conspiring.
- An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.
- (loosely) A secret agreement to do something.
- (rare, collective) A group of lemurs.
- (by ellipsis, proscribed) A conspiracy theory; a hypothesis alleging conspiracy.
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noun
noun
noun
noun
- A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
- a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
- The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
- Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
- a clandestine love affair
verb
- (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
- (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
- form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
- cause to be interested or curious
verb
- To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
- To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
- (specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
- (rare) To work as an engineer.
- To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- design as an engineer
noun
- A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
- (chiefly historical) A person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship.
- (often derogatory) A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
- (US, firefighting) A person who drives or operates a fire engine (firefighting apparatus).
- Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
- Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
- (chiefly US, rail transport) A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
- An honorific title given to engineers before their name.
- A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
- the operator of a railway locomotive
- a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
noun
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- the act of devising something
- A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
- A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
- Something overly artful or artificial.
noun
verb
- make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
- move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- (transitive) To elude.
- (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
adj
noun
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- a maneuver in a game or conversation
- Specifically, such a tactic or artifice in military operation.
- (uncountable) Military deception or artifice.
- (uncountable) Cunning and artifice in general.
- A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
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noun
- a visual display of information
- a written symbol that is used to represent speech
- a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes
- (topology) A topological space which represents some graph (ordered pair of sets) and which is constructed by representing the vertices as points and the edges as copies of the real interval [0,1] (where, for any given edge, 0 and 1 are identified with the points representing the two vertices) and equipping the result with a particular topology called the graph topology.
- (mathematics) A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1,x_2,…,x_m,y)∈ R ᵐ⁺¹, where y=f(x_1,x_2,…,x_m) for a given function f: R ᵐ→ R . See also Graph of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (category theory, of a morphism f) A morphism Γ_f from the domain of f to the product of the domain and codomain of f, such that the first projection applied to Γ_f equals the identity of the domain, and the second projection applied to Γ_f is equal to f.
- (graph theory) A set of vertices (or nodes) connected together by edges; (formally) an ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V. See also Graph (discrete mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (applied mathematics, statistics) A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers.
- (linguistics, typography) A graphical unit on the token-level, the abstracted fundamental shape of a character or letter as distinct from its ductus (realization in a particular typeface or handwriting on the instance-level) and as distinct by a grapheme on the type-level by not fundamentally distinguishing meaning.
noun
- An accomplice in a plot.
- (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.
- A member of a confederacy.
- a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
- someone who assists in a plot
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verb
noun
- A plotter or schemer.
- A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
- (computing) A software tool for designing things.
- a person who specializes in interior design
- someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
- someone who designs clothing
- a person who devises plots or intrigues
- someone who specializes in graphic design
adj
noun
- A person who plots.
- (computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.
- (slang) An author who usually relies on a plan or outline to organize their story.
- (navigation) An instrument used to mark or find the position of a vessel on a chart.
- a member of a conspiracy
- an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures
- a clerk who marks data on a chart
- a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action
verb
noun
- The act of making a plot on paper.
- (uncountable) The condition of being protracted.
- (linguistics) The lengthening of a short syllable.
- (countable) The act of protracting.
- (anatomy) An anterior movement on the horizontal plane; The forward movement of the tongue or of a limb.
- the consequence of being lengthened in duration
- the act of prolonging something
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- Devising, scheming (planning something mischievous or inappropriate).
- Doing, involved in.
- (mathematics) Considering all members of an equivalence class the same.
- (Eton College) Taught by; in the class of.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up, to.
- Until.
- Capable, ready or equipped, having sufficient material preconditions for, possibly willpower (at a particular moment).
- As much as; no more than (also with of).
- Within the responsibility of, to be attributed to the sphere of influence of, having someone or something as authoritative in.
adj
noun
- An environment full of conflict or plots.
- (figurative) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged naturally or artificially; a hotbed.
- A heated greenhouse.
- A heated room for drying greenware.
- (climatology) A hot state in global climate.
- a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
verb
noun
- Intention or plot.
- A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
- A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
- (particularly) Malicious or malevolent intention.
- The art of designing
- The composition of a work of art.
- The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
- A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.
- something intended as a guide for making something else
- the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
- a decorative or artistic work
- the creation of something in the mind
- an arrangement scheme
- a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something
- an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
verb
- (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
- To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.
- conceive or fashion in the mind; invent
- create designs
- intend or have as a purpose
- plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect
- make or work out a plan for; devise
- create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner
noun
- the series of events that form a plot
- something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
- In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
- the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
- the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
- the state of being active
- a military engagement
- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
- an act by a government body or supranational organization
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- (Misesian praxeology, Austrian economics) Purposeful behavior.
- (military) Combat.
- A way of motion or functioning.
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- (slang, typically with a quantifier) Sexual intercourse.
- (music, lutherie) The distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.
- A demonstration by activists.
- (mathematics) A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- (sciences) A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- Fast-paced activity.
- (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- (music) The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- (Christianity) A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- (physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
- (firearms) The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
- (literature) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
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noun
- A plot or scheme.
- The thin, sharp part of a colter.
- (architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
- (usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
- (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
- (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
- (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
- A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- The bit of a key.
- The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
- (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
- (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
- The blade of a sword.
- A latticed or woven structure.
- The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
- The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
- The blade of a saw.
- A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
- computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
- an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
- the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
- an interconnected system of things or people
- a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven)
- membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals
- an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
name
verb
noun
- A plot or secret, devious plan.
- (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
- A systematic plan of future action.
- An orderly combination of related parts.
- (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
- (mathematics) A mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).
- (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate.
- A chart or diagram of a system or object.
- (UK, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
- a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- an elaborate and systematic plan of action
- a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
verb
noun
- An intricate plot to catch the unwary.
- The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
- (informal, usually in the plural) fuzzy inexact memories.
- One of its filaments; gossamer.
- (figurative) Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.
- A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
- (Internet slang, rare) A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited.
- a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider
- filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
- a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
noun
- A secret plot.
- a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
- (derogatory) A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
- An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.
- a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
- a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
- a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
- (law) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
- (linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
- (rare, collective) A group of ravens.
- (loosely) An agreement to work together to bring something about; an act or instance of conspiring.
- An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.
- (loosely) A secret agreement to do something.
- (rare, collective) A group of lemurs.
- (by ellipsis, proscribed) A conspiracy theory; a hypothesis alleging conspiracy.
verb
noun
noun
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- A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
- a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
- The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
- Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
- a clandestine love affair
verb
- (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
- (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
- form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
- cause to be interested or curious
noun
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- the act of devising something
- A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
- A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
- Something overly artful or artificial.
noun
verb
- make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
- move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- (transitive) To elude.
- (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
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- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- a maneuver in a game or conversation
- Specifically, such a tactic or artifice in military operation.
- (uncountable) Military deception or artifice.
- (uncountable) Cunning and artifice in general.
- A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
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- An accomplice in a plot.
- (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.
- A member of a confederacy.
- a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
- someone who assists in a plot
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- A plotter or schemer.
- A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
- (computing) A software tool for designing things.
- a person who specializes in interior design
- someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
- someone who designs clothing
- a person who devises plots or intrigues
- someone who specializes in graphic design
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- A person who plots.
- (computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.
- (slang) An author who usually relies on a plan or outline to organize their story.
- (navigation) An instrument used to mark or find the position of a vessel on a chart.
- a member of a conspiracy
- an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures
- a clerk who marks data on a chart
- a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action
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- The act of making a plot on paper.
- (uncountable) The condition of being protracted.
- (linguistics) The lengthening of a short syllable.
- (countable) The act of protracting.
- (anatomy) An anterior movement on the horizontal plane; The forward movement of the tongue or of a limb.
- the consequence of being lengthened in duration
- the act of prolonging something
noun
- An environment full of conflict or plots.
- (figurative) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged naturally or artificially; a hotbed.
- A heated greenhouse.
- A heated room for drying greenware.
- (climatology) A hot state in global climate.
- a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
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- Intention or plot.
- A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
- A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
- (particularly) Malicious or malevolent intention.
- The art of designing
- The composition of a work of art.
- The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
- A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.
- something intended as a guide for making something else
- the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
- a decorative or artistic work
- the creation of something in the mind
- an arrangement scheme
- a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something
- an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
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- (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
- To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.
- conceive or fashion in the mind; invent
- create designs
- intend or have as a purpose
- plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect
- make or work out a plan for; devise
- create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner
noun
- the series of events that form a plot
- something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
- In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
- the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
- the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
- the state of being active
- a military engagement
- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
- an act by a government body or supranational organization
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- (Misesian praxeology, Austrian economics) Purposeful behavior.
- (military) Combat.
- A way of motion or functioning.
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- (slang, typically with a quantifier) Sexual intercourse.
- (music, lutherie) The distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.
- A demonstration by activists.
- (mathematics) A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- (sciences) A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- Fast-paced activity.
- (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- (music) The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- (Christianity) A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- (physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
- (firearms) The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
- (literature) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
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- a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)
- A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
- (video games, slang) Clipping of platform game
- Clipping of platform
- A plot of land; a lot.
- Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
- A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
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- make a plot of
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
noun
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- A grave.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan; a purpose.
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
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- (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- (transitive) To load with a pack.
- (transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
- (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
- (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- (transitive) To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
- (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
- (intransitive, LGBTQ, especially of a trans man or drag king) To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
- (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- (transitive, progressive aspect, slang) To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person.
- (transitive, US, chiefly Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
- (transitive) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
- (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data).
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
- (intransitive, of animals) To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
- (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
- (intransitive) To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
- (intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
- (transitive, figurative) To load; to encumber.
- (intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.
- (transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
- carry, as on one's back
- hike with a backpack
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- load with a pack
- fill to capacity
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- seal with packing
- press down tightly
- compress into a wad
- press tightly together or cram
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
- arrange in a container
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
noun
- A full set of playing cards
- A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- (roller derby) The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
- (slang) A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A shook of cask staves.
- (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
- (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
- (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- A multitude.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A flock of knots.
- (slang) A package of cigarettes.
- an association of criminals
- a large indefinite quantity
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
- a complete collection of similar things
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a group of hunting animals
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- To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
- To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
- (specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
- (rare) To work as an engineer.
- To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- design as an engineer
noun
- A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
- (chiefly historical) A person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship.
- (often derogatory) A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
- (US, firefighting) A person who drives or operates a fire engine (firefighting apparatus).
- Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
- Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
- (chiefly US, rail transport) A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
- An honorific title given to engineers before their name.
- A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
- the operator of a railway locomotive
- a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
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- a visual display of information
- a written symbol that is used to represent speech
- a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes
- (topology) A topological space which represents some graph (ordered pair of sets) and which is constructed by representing the vertices as points and the edges as copies of the real interval [0,1] (where, for any given edge, 0 and 1 are identified with the points representing the two vertices) and equipping the result with a particular topology called the graph topology.
- (mathematics) A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1,x_2,…,x_m,y)∈ R ᵐ⁺¹, where y=f(x_1,x_2,…,x_m) for a given function f: R ᵐ→ R . See also Graph of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (category theory, of a morphism f) A morphism Γ_f from the domain of f to the product of the domain and codomain of f, such that the first projection applied to Γ_f equals the identity of the domain, and the second projection applied to Γ_f is equal to f.
- (graph theory) A set of vertices (or nodes) connected together by edges; (formally) an ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V. See also Graph (discrete mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (applied mathematics, statistics) A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers.
- (linguistics, typography) A graphical unit on the token-level, the abstracted fundamental shape of a character or letter as distinct from its ductus (realization in a particular typeface or handwriting on the instance-level) and as distinct by a grapheme on the type-level by not fundamentally distinguishing meaning.
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- A plot or secret, devious plan.
- (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
- A systematic plan of future action.
- An orderly combination of related parts.
- (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
- (mathematics) A mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).
- (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate.
- A chart or diagram of a system or object.
- (UK, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
- a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- an elaborate and systematic plan of action
- a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole