单词 | plotting |
释义 | plottingn.1 The action of plot v.1 (in various senses); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] compassinga1300 compassmentc1300 ordainingc1350 ordinancec1385 imaginationa1393 conjectmentc1400 before-castinga1425 forecastinga1425 imagininga1449 conjectinga1450 machinationc1550 platforming1560 plotting1593 contrivement1599 agitation1600 contrival1602 contrivage1610 projection1611 projectment1611 contrivance1647 politics1650 digestion1680 planning1730 contriving1751 scheme1790 scheming1813 schemery1822 replanning1853 mapping1856 macroplanning1966 the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] compassinga1300 contrivingc1330 undermining1433 imagininga1449 engininga1450 practising?1545 machinationc1550 packing1587 plotting1593 contrival1602 managing1607 tamperinga1627 practicking1640 texturea1641 contrivance1647 briguing1657 intrigue1668 intriguing1801 policizing1809 scheming1813 intriguery1815 schemery1822 plottery1823 shenanigan1855 game playing1916 shenaniganning1924 wheeler-dealing1968 wheeling and dealing1969 wheeling-dealing1973 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot > construction of plotting1593 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 10v Without any care, fore-cast, or plotting on thy part..I shall bee to thee all in all. 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue iii. 127 Two principall instruments, fit indeede for the plotting of grounds,..a plaine table, and the Theodolite. 1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 28 One great advantage they have had in the Plotting of their Tragedies..they are always grounded upon some known History. 1683 Roxburghe Ballads (1885) V. 329 But Heaven, I hope, will all Plotting disclose, And the Laws of the Nation shall punish the Foes. 1704 C. Darby Psalms xxxi. 45 I hear of all their sland'rous words, And cruel plottings too. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Surveying Surveying consists of Three Parts or Members... The Second we call Plotting or Protracting or Mapping. ?1754 Mock Monarchs II. 43 There's always some Plotting and Scheming going forwards amongst them, 'till they get their Heads cut off. 1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin I. ii. 22 Like Lysander, he loved plotting. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 329/2 The term ‘plotting’ is applied to the process of laying down on paper the plan of the ground which has been surveyed. 1893 Athenæum 17 June 760/2 The initial plotting and construction necessary..should have occupied less time..than the trivialities which have been allowed to take their place. 1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan xviii. 271 The plottings and schemings which had ever brought him..to disaster. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 29/3 Miss Salisbury Davis also writes with good comic sense but less skill in plotting. 1991 Lighting Dimensions Nov. 42/1 Forthcoming systems to allow the blind plotting and programming of moving light systems will bring about a revolution. Compounds C1. a. General attributive, in sense ‘designating articles used in plotting or drawing to scale’. ΚΠ 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 92/1 The plotting-book is a simple rectangular note-book. plotting paper n. ΚΠ 1875 F. Prime Rept. Progress on Brown Hematite Ore 57 The map..occupying the whole or parts of 42 sheets of plotting paper. 1883 Harper's Mag. July 165/2 A..speculator whose imagination is let loose upon a plotting paper. 1993 R. D. Luce Sound & Hearing 137 Plotting paper ruled in these coordinates is known as semi-log paper. plotting scale n. ΚΠ 1723 E. Stone in tr. N. Bion Constr. & Principal Uses Math. Instruments Pref. p. vi In the First Book are laid down the Construction and Principal Uses of the most simple and common Instruments, as Compasses, Ruler,..Coggeshall's Sliding-Rule, the Plotting Scale, [etc.]. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 939/2 Plotting scale, a mathematical instrument used in plotting, or setting off the lengths of lines in surveying. 1999 Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair: 1999 Handbk. 51/3 (caption) The sector, plotting scale and protractor bear the maker's name. plotting sheet n. ΚΠ 1856 P. J. Lesley Man. Coal 195 I have long used Hufty's plotting sheets bound up. 1971 R. J. P. Wilson Land Surveying viii. 165 The plane table, essentially a drawing board,..carries the plotting sheet. 1992 W. F. Buckley WindFall xv. 210 I'd guess he spends a quarter of each day at his plotting sheets, Air Almanac, [etc.]. b. In sense ‘forming a plot or conspiracy’. plotting school n. ΚΠ 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 30 Aug. 1/2 May he too come To have my Doom That first set up this Plotting-school. 1956 A. Henderson G. B. Shaw: Man of Cent. xlvi. 610 In the medical play..the doctor loves the patient's wife and kills the patient ostensibly for her sake... But in Getting Married this link with the plotting school is snapped completely. C2. plotting board n. (a) a type of drawing board on which the positions or courses of objects may be plotted; (b) Computing rare, a flatbed plotter (plotter n. 2c). ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > printer > plotter > for graphs plotting board1890 plotter1956 plotting table1960 society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > drawing instruments > for graphs or charts plotting board1890 plotter1956 plotting table1960 society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > drawing instruments > tables or boards tracing-board1399 plotting board1890 tracing table1953 1890 Times 27 May 11/1 The fort commander can ascertain what his objective is to be by..the use of a plotting board. 1961 S. Fifer Analogue Computation II. ix. 300 The Autograf..is an example of a cylindrical plotting board. In this case the pen is controlled, as before, by one variable, but the moving carriage is replaced by a rotating drum which is driven by the second variable. 1991 Motorboat & Yachting June 83/3 All too few modern motor cruisers boast a proper chart table. Blundell Harling's plotting board is, therefore, to be welcomed. plotting machine n. a machine for automatically plotting maps. ΚΠ 1860 Times 21 July 16/3 The stock-in-trade of an engineer, comprising..a 12-horse oscillating engine, with metallic plates,..a plotting machine, [etc.]. 1908 Geogr. Jrnl. 31 536 Some central organization at home would be required for plotting the results. This could be done..by a plotter and plotting machine attached to any existing photographic establishment. 2001 GEO World (Nexis) 1 June 42 The system is a cartographic and a terrain analysis tool that also can be used to make a line map or a color-coded thematic map using computerized, automated plotting machines. plotting rod n. a long rod for moving the counters on a plotting table. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > plotting table or device plotting table1744 replotter1896 plotting rod1946 1946 Times 9 May 10/2 The ingenious Magnetic Plotting Rod designed by our engineers for use at R.A.F. control stations. 1963 N. D. Smith Royal Air Force vi. 66 Plotters, using long-handled plotting rods, moved coloured magnetic counters on the large table map. plotting table n. (a) Military a table on which plotting of maps may be carried out; esp. a large table bearing a small-scale map of a region on which the positions of forces, esp. aircraft, ships, etc., may be represented by movable counters, etc.; (also) a table in an aeroplane, ship, etc., on which its course may be plotted; (b) Computing rare a flatbed plotter (plotter n. 2c). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > plotting table or device plotting table1744 replotter1896 plotting rod1946 society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > printer > plotter > for graphs plotting board1890 plotter1956 plotting table1960 society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > drawing instruments > for graphs or charts plotting board1890 plotter1956 plotting table1960 1744 H. Beighton in Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 748 I completed and published the same [sc. a map of Warwickshire] in the year 1728 and call the instrument The Plotting Table. 1917 Times 17 July 9/5 In the fight [sc. the battle of Jutland] he acted at the plotting table, and was complimented on his work. 1960 A. E. Rogers & T. W. Connolly Analog Computation in Engin. Design ii. 47 When it is desired to plot one variable against another, an XY plotting table is used. 1973 ‘A. Hall’ Tango Briefing xviii. 224 The whole of this area was on the plotting table at the Bureau. 1991 Sky Warriors 1 ii. 25/2 The rear of the aircraft has two side-by-side navigator positions facing the instruments,..with a plotting table to work on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † plottingn.2 Obsolete. The action of plot v.4 ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > soap-making > [noun] > specific processes mottling1839 plotting1885 1885 W. L. Carpenter Treat. Manuf. Soap vii. 200 The soap is ready for the final operation, known as ‘plotting’ (from the French, pelotage), in which the paste is subjected to enormous pressure..to form it into cakes, or..bars. 1890 Cent. Dict. Plotting-machine, a form of press for shaping soap-paste into bars or cakes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018). plottingadj. That plots something; scheming. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [adjective] compassingc1440 practising1556 plotting1592 contrivinga1616 intriguing1682 plotful1732 machinating1751 policizing1825 scheming1838 intriguant1897 wheeling-dealing1973 1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 159 In thy puissance victorie doth rest And not in mans weake plotting policie. 1638 Earl of Rothes Affairs Kirk Scotl. (1830) 113 From all malitious ploating papists. 1676 D'Urfey (title) A fond husband, or the plotting sisters: a comedy. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) IV. xxiii. 115 Have I not called thine the plotting'st heart in the universe? 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. vi. 323 Plotting Aristocrats, and excommunicating Dissident Priests. 1872 J. S. le Fanu In a Glass Darkly I. 243 The eye of a man accustomed to look upon the dock could not fail to read ‘villain’ written sharp and clear in his plotting face. 1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear ii. vii. 293 The actual details of nearly every outrage had sprung from his plotting brain. 1995 Independent 29 Apr. 27/2 This is not one of those whimsical tales of smart genes and plotting parasites by which the best of us have been persuaded there is such a form as the scientifico-poet. Derivatives ˈplottingly adv. in a plotting or scheming manner; as a plotter. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [adverb] plottinglya1651 intriguingly1741 contrivingly1748 schemingly1895 a1651 C. Love Combate Flesh & Spirit (1654) 34 His sinne in..the matter of Uriah, it was done more deliberately, plottingly and contrivedly. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xv.106 There never..could be a Gentleman, so foolishly tender, yet so plottingly cruel, to his Lady. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 31 Frederick the Great, with head drooped plottingly. 1994 Buffalo News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 7 Dec. (Entertainment section) 6 The conceptual format, so masculine and plottingly rational and reserved in its original form. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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