<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.</li><li>Synonyms: cabal, intrigue.</li><li>Also called storyline.</li><li>the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.</li><li>a small piece or area of ground: a garden plot; burial plot.</li><li>a measured piece or parcel of land: a house on a two-acre plot.</li><li>a plan, map, diagram, or other graphic representation, as of land, a building, etc.</li><li>a list, timetable, or scheme dealing with any of the various arrangements for the production of a play, motion picture, etc.: According to the property plot, there should be a lamp stage left.</li><li>a chart showing the course of a craft, as a ship or airplane.</li><li>Artillery: a point or points located on a map or chart: target plot.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) plotted, plotting: to plan secretly, especially something hostile or evil: to plot mutiny.</li><li>Synonyms: frame, hatch, brew.</li><li>to mark on a plan, map, or chart, as the course of a ship or aircraft.</li><li>to draw a plan or map of, as a tract of land or a building.</li><li>to divide (land) into plots.</li><li>to determine and mark (points), as on plotting paper, by means of measurements or coordinates.</li><li>to draw (a curve) by means of points so marked.</li><li>to represent by means of such a curve.</li><li>to devise or construct the plot of (a play, novel, etc.).</li><li>to prepare a list, timetable, or scheme of (production arrangements), as for a play or motion picture: The stage manager hadn't plotted the set changes until one day before the dress rehearsal.</li><li>to make (a calculation) by graph.</li><li>(used without object) plotted, plotting: to plan or scheme secretly; form a plot; conspire.</li><li>to devise or develop a literary or dramatic plot.</li><li>to be marked or located by means of measurements or coordinates, as on plotting paper.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>