Meaning

3 senses

  1. (intransitive, transitive)To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).

    They had plotted a robbery.

    They were plotting against the king.

    planen, ausarbeiten, entwerfen

    замышля́тьzamyšljátʹ, замы́слитьzamýslitʹ, злоумышля́тьzloumyšljátʹ

    змовля́тисяzmovljátysja, змо́витисяzmóvytysja

  2. (transitive)To trace out (a graph or diagram).

    They plotted the number of edits per day.

    plotten

    черти́тьčertítʹ, начерти́тьnačertítʹ

  3. (transitive)To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).

    Every five minutes they plotted their position.

    eintragen, einzeichnen, festhalten

    отмеча́тьotmečátʹ, отме́титьotmétitʹ

More definitions
  • plan secretly, usually something illegal
  • devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
  • make a plot of
  • make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed

Examples

185 sentences

  1. I don't understand the plot.

    Я не розумію сюжет.

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  2. Tom explained the plot to Mary.

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  3. I didn't like the plot of that movie.

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  4. The plot was too difficult for me to follow.

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  5. I think most of them took part in the plot.

    ruЯ думаю, почти все они присоединились к заговору.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
intransitive: to conceive a crime or misdeed:
Русский
By meaning 4
transitive: to conceive:
intransitive: to conceive a crime or misdeed:
to trace out a graph or diagram:
to mark a point on a graph:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
transitive: to conceive:
to trace out a graph or diagram:
to mark a point on a graph:

Origin

From Middle English plot, plotte, from late Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), of unce

From Middle English plot, plotte, from late Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”); or alternatively, perhaps from a rebracketing of Old English land-splott (“small portion, or plot, of ground”) taken as landes-plot (“plot of land”). Compare Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), and possibly Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄 (plat, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence and reinforcement of noun sense 8.

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Forms

plots, plotting, plotted, plotted
Base formplot · to plot
3rd person singularplots
Present participleplotting
Past simpleplotted
Past participleplotted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyplot
he, she, itplots

Past simpleLesson

all personsplotted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave plotted
he, she, ithas plotted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill plot

Synonyms

5 synonyms
an area of land:lotA1
conceive a crime, etc:connive
contrive:becast
Close in meaning
  • make a plot of:plat
  • make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed:diagram

Word family

10 related words
Relatedplotter
Derivedcounterplotmisplotunderplotcoplotoutplotoverplotplot outplottablereplot

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
plopplosiveplotterploughployC1
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