schemen.1
/skiːm/, U.S. /skim/ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [noun]
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1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 94 I might tary a longe time in declaryng the nature of diuerse Schemes, whiche are woordes or sentencies altered..contrarie to the vulgare custome of our speache.
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. viii. 304 By a scheme of speach they are made to be casters on of the perfume.
1684 J. Tillotson Serm. (1714) III. xlix. 586 In the Text, by a very elegant Scheme of Speech he does, as it were, once more set them at liberty; and, as if they had never engaged themselves to God by Covenant before, he leaves them to their free choice.
a. A diagram showing the relative positions, either real or apparent, of the heavenly bodies.
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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > representational device > [noun] > map of heavens
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horoscopea1656
1638 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 5) ii. ii. iii. 257 [They] are all so confident, that they have made skemes and tables of their motions.
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 107 Amongst his Observations and Schemes of this Comet.
1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. 23 What do you intend by those small Stars round Jupiter and Saturn, in the Scheme?
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 341 They borrowed all the schemes under which the stars are comprehended, from the Egyptians.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia I. 419 The volume is decorated with schemes of spheres and the signs of the Zodiac.
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the world > the universe > astrology > judicial astrology > horoscope > [noun] > nativity
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birth1480
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geniture1599
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birth paper1824
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. iv. sig. I4v My most honor'd Lady, For so I am now to stile you, hauing found By this my scheme, you are to vndergoe An honourable fortune, very shortly. View more context for this quotation
1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. (title) The first [Book] containing the use of an Ephemeris, the erecting of a Scheam of Heaven.
1708 J. Swift Predict. for 1708 3 Upon reviewing my Schemes, I quickly found the Cause of that Error.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives III. 166 A Chaldaean scheme was found in his bosom as he lay.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iv. 54 He..erected his scheme, or figure of heaven, divided into its twelve houses..and rectified their position to the hour and moment of the nativity.
a. In wider sense: A diagram; a figure drawn to illustrate a mathematical proposition, or to elucidate descriptions of natural phenomena, machinery, etc.; a map or plan of a town; an architect's designs for a building; and the like. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > plan or scheme
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plant1624
plane1639
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field plot1659
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > diagram
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cladogram1965
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > plans of buildings or structures
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master plan1914
1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. vi. lxxxi. 93 Like as my Writings doe sufficiently, and largely shew; and here onely is represented briefly in a Figure or Scheme.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Proem 9 The shape of the Glass, you will find express'd in the first Figure of the annexed Scheme.
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 28 The Author hath..drawn all the Schemes of these 60 microscopical objects with his own hand.
1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 134 The Description whereof would be tedious and difficult to understand without a Scheme and therefore I shall omit it.
1682 Weekly Memorials for Ingenious (Faithorne & Kersey) 4 Sept. 214 In the next place he gives us a Scheme of the City of Lepanto.
1695 W. Alingham Geom. Epitomiz'd 117 The delineating of any Geometrick Scheme or Figure.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 60 Unless the Schemes be very large, it will be very difficult to take the Dimensions nicely.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Scheme, is the representation of any Geometrical or Astronomical Figure or Problem, by Lines sensibly to the Eye; and these are otherwise called Diagrams.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 89 He used a great variety of mathematical schemes, maps, and other useful devices to embellish his works.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. viii. 234 ‘This,’ said he, ‘is a scheme of the citadel, as I call it, which may hold out long enough.’
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1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode xlvi, in Steps to Temple 66 What ever Schemes of Blood, fantastick frames Of Death Mezentius, or Geryon drew.
a1701 C. Sedley Tyrant of Crete v. i Look upon my misfortunes, and you shall find A perfect scheme of all your saddest evils.
1717 D. Defoe Mem. Church of Scotl. i. 6 I shall give it [sc. the Particulars] at large in the Scheme I purpose to draw of the State of these Judicatories.
4. An analytical or tabular statement.
a. A conspectus, exposition in outline; an epitome exhibiting the structure of a book, passage, argument, etc.; also an outline draft of a projected literary work.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > introductory or preliminary
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > synoptical statement
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table1560
analysis1588
the brief1601
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method1614
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précis1760
summing up1795
aperçu1828
conspectus1839
vidimus1884
auto-abstract1892
standfirst1972
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > outline or sketch in words
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1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 16 Having given you a plain scheme of the Law.
1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Matt. vi. 9 So perfect is the method of the Lord's Prayer, that I had thought to have Anatomized it and set it before thee in a Scheme.
1702 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth (ed. 2) 2 I intend this but for a Scheme of a larger Design.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 105 [Mr. Pym said] that he had only laid that Scheme [sc. the enumeration of grievances] before them, that they might see how much work they had to Satisfy their Country.
1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) iii. 75 You may occasionally find it necessary to make a ‘scheme’ of an argument in order to grasp it.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 394 The student who reads it [sc. the First Epistle of St. John] in the light of some well considered scheme will gain more advantage from it than others, even if details of his scheme be untenable.
b. A table, a methodical list; a prearranged system of classification. †In University slang: see quot. 1780.Perhaps obsolete except as reintroduced from German; cf. German schema blank form to be filled up.
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society > communication > record > list > [noun] > methodical or catalogue
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Christ-cross-row1579
catalogue1667
matricularya1676
schemea1676
catalogue raisonné1784
cumulation1900
schematization1940
hit list1970
society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > list of questions
scheme1780
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. ii. 132 I shall prefix a short Chronological Scheme of Times.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 558 He desired me to give him a scheme of the heads fit to be spoken to, and of the order in which they should be laid.
1780 Gentleman's Mag. 50 278 He provides what is here called a scheme, which contains a collection of all the questions, which will probably be asked him in each science.
1868 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. 546 In Chapter ix. is given his [Hobbes'] Scheme of Sciences.
1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 188 The difference or the kinship between any two conceptions M and N should be exactly indicated by their position in the universal scheme.
1895 Daily News 14 Sept. 2/4 In the majority of the programmes the chief orchestral work will be Tschaïkowsky's ‘Symphonie Pathétique’..while the rest of the schemes will be devoted to Wagner.
c. Prosody. A tabular analysis of the admissible varieties of structure in a particular kind of verse or stanza; the structure of a verse or a stanza as represented by such an analysis.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > schemes of grouping
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tern1879
1838 T. Mitchell in Aristophanes Clouds 120 The following scheme of the metre in which this Address is written..is given by the learned editor of Hephæstion.
5. in combination.1764 Oxf. Sausage 44 No scheme-enamour'd Youth.
a. A plan, design; a programme of action; the designed scope and method of an undertaking or a literary work, etc. Phrases, to †cast, lay a scheme.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (intransitive)]
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to cast, lay a scheme1704
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to plan on1914
the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > a plan
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1704 J. Addison Campaign 64 Our god-like leader, ere the stream he past, The mighty scheme of all his labours cast.
1718 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 59 That first fframed the Scheme and then Laid the Solid ffoundation of this fflourishing Colony.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World i. 5 I also reminded them of the scheme of the voyage.
1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. x. 14 That is the whole Scheme and Intention of all Marriage Articles.
1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) cxxxix. iii. 3 Thine Eye with tender Care survey'd The Growth of every Part, 'Till the whole Scheme thy Thoughts had laid Was copy'd by thy Art.
1754 J. Shebbeare Marriage Act I. iv. 28 The one laid the Scheme, and the other took the Town.
1759 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful (ed. 2) Introd. 40 It is the nature of our particular scheme, and the single point of view in which we consider it, which ought to put a stop to our researches.
1775 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 53 This is no time for taking public business in their course and order, and only as a part in the scheme of life, which comes and goes at its proper periods.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlvii. 418 It forms no part of our scheme to tell what became of the remainder.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany x. 162 For us they are things of the past, they find no place in our scheme of life.
1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. ii. 179 The scheme of teaching for the higher class of men was essentially good.
1888 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (new ed.) I. iii. 370 To lay the scheme [MS. sceme] how the next year should be spent.
b. Hence, A plan of action devised in order to attain some end; a purpose together with a system of measures contrived for its accomplishment; a project, enterprise. Often with unfavourable notion, a self-seeking or an underhand project, a plot (cf. scheme v., scheming adj.), or a visionary or foolish project. Phrase, to lay a scheme.This is now the most prominent use, and in some degree colours the other senses so far as they survive.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > a plan > a proposed plan or a project
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > a plot
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot [verb (intransitive)]
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to lay a scheme1826
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angle1892
wheel and deal1961
1719 Free-thinker No. 90. 2 This was the Scheme, which the Heads of the Parliament Party pursued.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 11 The Scheme hit so exactly with my Temper.
1746 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 51 It is no new thing for Arbitrary Princes to contrive and promote Schemes for the subversion of a Government.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 73. ⁋4 Plans of elegance and schemes of pleasure.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. iii, in Wks. I. 243 But this deep-laid scheme was in a moment disconcerted.
1775 A. Burnaby Trav. Middle Settlements N.-Amer. 23 Some few, indeed, have been rather more enterprising, and have endeavoured to improve their estates by raising indigo, and other schemes.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 384 The idea of the possibility of multiplying paper money to almost any extent, was the real foundation of what is called the Mississippi scheme . View more context for this quotation
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. viii. 163 Her opposition to Edmund now arose more from partiality for her own scheme because it was her own, than from any thing else. View more context for this quotation
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. viii. 215 Men come and go, lay schemes, and alter them, in my house, without deigning to consult me!
1832 H. Martineau Ireland iii. 36 Dan proposed a grand scheme to his father-in-law.
1857 Act 20 & 21 Victoria c. 84 Preamble The Charity Commissioners..have provisionally approved and certified (among other Schemes for the Application and Management of Charities) a Scheme for the College of God's Gift in Dulwich.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. iii. 32 He never thought of any scheme for removing his enemy.
1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 353 The end of this vast scheme of spoliation.
1888 J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland 306 The great irrigation schemes of the North-West Provinces.
1895 Bookman Oct. 22/2 At the Congress of Ryswick..Louis placed his own dynastic schemes above the interests of the nation.
c. In generalized sense: ‘Scheming’, contrivance, design. rare.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun]
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schemery1822
replanning1853
mapping1856
macroplanning1966
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > contrivance or machination
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subtletya1393
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Machiavellism1592
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Machiavellianism1607
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intrigue1668
designfulnessa1677
engineering1716
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intriguery1815
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footwork1902
game playing1916
1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 4 A coincidence which shows, by its very obliquity, that scheme was not employed in its formation.
d. An escapade of a humorous character, a ‘spree’; an outing or excursion. Now only dialect.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > a frolic
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panta1901
gas1914
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > outing or excursion > [noun]
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1758 T. Warton Idler 2 Dec. 273 All the provisions bespoke by some rakish Fellow-Commoner in the next room, who had been on a scheme to Newmarket.
1762 S. Foote Orators i. 4 Will and I are here, upon a scheme from Oxford.
1764 Oxf. Sausage 26 Woodstock, farewell! and Wallingford adieu! Where many a Scheme reliev'd the lingering Day.
1789 J. Austen in Loiterer 12 Sept. 6 That glorious achievement, A Scheme to Town.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. ix. 166 I did not once put my foot out of doors... Not one party, or scheme, or any thing. View more context for this quotation
1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 250/1 [Cambr.] I never used to have such schemes when I was young.
6. † a. A hypothetical construction, a theory. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > confirmation of hypothesis, theory > [noun]
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theoreticals1809
1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. i. 58 Many Arminians write as if the order of Intention and of Execution were the same, and so begin at the other end, and give us a Scheme just contrary to the first sort.
1682 T. Creech tr. Lucretius De natura rerum v. 162 And this the later Babylonian Sect Doth hold, and the Chaldean Schems reject.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 69. ⁋4 Eboracensis has read all the Schemes which Writers have formed of Government and Order.
1725 I. Watts Logick ii. iii. §3 Thro' the Influence which our own Schemes or Hypotheses have upon the Mind, we sometimes become so sharp-sighted as to find these Schemes in those Places of Scripture where the holy Writers never thought of them.
b. A body of related doctrines, a speculative system.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > [noun] > system or theory
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thought1692
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new thinking1853
thought structure1867
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > [noun] > theory of knowledge, system
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theory?1634
philosophy1668
technology1683
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stock-in-tradea1806
episteme1842
Wissenschaftslehre1846
epistemics1901
the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > [noun] > speculative system
scheme1690
1690 W. Temple Ess. Anc. & Mod. Learning in Wks. (1731) I. 291 Des-Cartes was the next that would be thought to excel the Ancients, by a new Scheme or Body of Philosophy.
1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. i. 12 Complete Schemes of Natural Religion drawn from Principles and Axioms of Reason.
1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. viii. 324 His comprehensive scheme of theology.
7.
a. A complex unity in which the component elements co-operate and interact according to a definite plan; a system of correlated things, institutions, arrangements, etc.; also, the manner in which such a system is organized.
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the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > quality of being systematic > systematic arrangement > a system or scheme
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syst.1657
scheme1736
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. vii. 121 (heading) Of the Government of God, considered as a Scheme or Constitution, imperfectly comprehended.
1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. I. 43 Evil..is a necessary part of the whole scheme.
1791 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 278 He then asked me whether I had seen that scheme of absurdity, the French constitution, and what I thought of it.
1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 163 There was a Power in this sweet place, An Eve in this Eden; a ruling grace Which to the flowers did they waken or dream, Was as God is to the starry scheme.
1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter I. i. 2 To this disadvantage, (the only alloy perhaps to the scheme of society to which it belongs,) may be attributed many of those ill-assorted matches made by ladies of quality.
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. iii. 95 In the present scheme of things, man is so closely linked with his fellow man,..that in a thousand instances the moral exchange is both required and made.
1840 S. Wilberforce Speeches on Missions (1874) 89 But it must be that a little while longer, and this nation, aye, and all the great scheme of nations, of which it is part, will have passed utterly away, and be no more.
1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám lxxiii. 16 Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 41 From thine apprehended scheme of things deduce Praise or blame of its contriver.
1888 W. E. Henley Bk. Verses 121 Pulpit and platform overflowing, Ready the scheme of things to revise.
b. Painting. scheme of colour: the system of selection and arrangement of colours characteristic of a particular painter or school, or adopted in a particular picture; now chiefly = colour scheme n. at colour n.1 Compounds 4 (in both senses). Frequently elliptical. Also transferred.
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the world > matter > colour > colour relationships > [noun] > colour scheme
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scheme1884
colourway1941
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > general effect or scheme
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colouring1706
natural colour1720
coloration1778
palette1782
tonality1866
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the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > cryptic or protective coloration
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homochromy1899
camouflage1917
procrypsis1920
colour scheme1925
scheme of colour1925
crypsis1956
crypticity1956
1884 Sat. Rev. 7 June 745/1 We wish that this artist would abandon the chocolate-like scheme of colour in which he has indulged for the last few years.
1897 Private Life of Queen ii. 15 The general scheme of colour is crimson and cream and gold. This scheme of paint prevails throughout the suite.
1905 P. White Patient Man vii. 67 Mrs. Dacre was proud of the ‘scheme’ of the dining-room, although she admitted it was a little trying to the complexion by daylight.
1925 R. W. G. Hingston in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 265 Certain of the little birds are decidedly conspicuous, and in some cases we see the obvious reason why they do not require a protective scheme.
1925 R. W. G. Hingston in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 267 Its [sc. a locust's] scheme of colour was grey and black with delicate transverse bands across its thighs.
1969 J. Cheever Bullet Park ii. 31 Nubbly stretchy reps look completely out of place in my decorating scheme.
a. = figure n. 10.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > of human figure
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1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 311 Every picture consisting of many figures must needs have some historicall part in it, seeing it is but a dull and unprofitable thing when many schemes are heaped up together without either sense or learning.
b. Stateliness, pomp.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > splendour, magnificence, or pomp > [noun]
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pageanting1873
1647 H. More Philos. Poems Pref. sig. B3 So high confidence might become the heat and scheme of Poetry much better than sober Philosophy.
c. Form, aspect, appearance. Obsolete.
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the world > space > shape > [noun]
hue971
shapec1050
form1297
casta1300
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fashionc1320
featurec1325
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imagerya1592
model1597
plasmature1610
figurature1642
scheme1655
morphosis1675
turn1675
plasma1712
mould1725
format1936
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun]
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bleea1000
shapeOE
ylikeOE
laitc1175
semblanta1225
sightc1275
fare1297
showingc1300
specea1325
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semblance?a1366
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beseeminga1616
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resemblancea1616
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presentment1637
scheme1655
sensation1662
visibility1669
plumage1707
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the cut of one's jib1823
personnel1839
personal appearance1842
what-like1853
look-see1898
outwall1933
visuality1938
prosopon1947
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 125 The Nation and race of men were.., under the scheme of..specious plain-dealing, most perfidious.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity vii. 21 It is likely the imposing Priests would pretend either of these to the people (though not in that odious scheme) as persuasions of the presence of the Dæmons themselves in these consecrated Places and Images.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 84 For they had the scheme of truth not the substance.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 99 Be not under any Brutal metempsychosis while thou livest, and walkest about erectly under the scheme of Man.
1743 N. Appleton Several Disc. Romans VIII. xiv 13 Contending for the same Thing ultimately, but in a different Scheme.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > arrangement of notes
position1721
scheme1721
chording1866
1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick 534 The mutual Distances of these Meses potestate are expressed in the Scheme by (:) which signifies a Tone, (.) a Semitone or Limma.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Scheme..in the antient music, is used for the varieties arising from the different positions of the tones and semitones in a consonance.
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music
Draft additions December 2002
Scottish colloquial. [Short for housing scheme n. at housing n.1 Compounds 2.] A housing development on the outskirts of a city, usually in a deprived area; a council estate.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > a development
urbanization1939
development1957
scheme1968
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > housing estate
housing scheme1891
housing project1900
housing estate1901
estate1915
council estate1939
scheme1968
1968 G. M. Williams From Scenes like These i. 8 The harsh blue sodium lights of the scheme streets ended at the railway bridge, a dank vault from whose iron rafters hung silvery icicles.
1980 B. MacLaverty Time to Dance in A. Massie Sc. Short Stories 219 Most of the boys in the scheme called him Nelly Skelly.
1991 J. Kelman Burn (1992) 208 As it turns out he didni walk it from the scheme into the city after all.
1999 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 7 Nov. (Seven Days section) 5/6 I'm a working-class Weedgie who grew up in a scheme.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
schemen.2
/skiːm/, U.S. /skim/ ? Obsolete.
a. The arc of larger radius in the middle of a three-centre arch or elliptical arch; chiefly attributive, in scheme-arch n. an arch of this kind (but by various writers defined as an arch of the form of a circular segment less than a semicircle).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > other types of arch > specific parts
scheme1700
ramp1725
full centre1748
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > other types of arch
bowOE
craba1387
cove1511
triumphal arch (arc)a1566
straight arch1663
pointed arch1688
rough arch1693
jack-arch1700
oxi1700
raking arch1711
flat arch1715
scheme-arch1725
counter-arch1726
ox-eye arch1736
surbased dome1763
ogee1800
rising arch1809
sub-arch1811
deaf arch1815
four-centred arch1815
mixed arch1815
Tudor arch1815
camber1823
lancet arch1823
invert1827
platband1828
pier arch1835
ogive1841
scoinson arch1842
segment1845
skew arch1845
drop-arch1848
equilateral arch1848
lancet1848
rear arch1848
straining-arch1848
tierceron1851
shouldered arch1853
archlet1862
segment-arch1887
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 33 Let the length given be AB,..describe the Hanse AG;..then..describe a part of the Ellipsis BH, which is called the Hanse: The other part to be described from G to H, is called the Scheam.
1725 W. Halfpenny Art of Sound Building 2 To describe a Scheme-Arch.
1772 C. Hutton Princ. Bridges 78 A scheme or skeen arch is a segment less than the semicircle.
1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 251/2 Scheme or Skene, or Imperfect Arch, less than semicircle.
b. quasi-adj. Constructed with a ‘scheme’.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > types of arch > characterized by
round-arched1606
scheme1703
round-arch1817
ogival1855
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 8 Of Circular Arches, there are 3 Kinds; Semicircular, Scheme, or Skeen, and Arches of the 3d. and 4th. Point.
1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. Palladio Architecture (1721) I. 71 The Ceilings are either made semi-circular, or scheme [It. a schiffo], that is, so flat as to have in height only one third of the breadth of the Room.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
schemev.
/skiːm/, U.S. /skim/ 1.
a. transitive. To devise as a scheme; to lay schemes for; to effect by contrivance or intrigue.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot (a purpose) or hatch (a plot [verb (transitive)]
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procurec1300
purchasec1300
contrivec1330
conspirec1384
brewc1386
awaitc1400
surmise1509
devisec1515
practise1531
machinate1537
forge1547
hatch1565
plot1589
pack1590
appost1602
feign1690
intrigue1747
scheme1767
1767 W. L. Lewis tr. Statius Thebaid I. ii. 320 For useless lay the now-neglected Chain; Threats fail'd, and Punishments were schem'd in vain.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert ix, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 187 Offences which were wilfully and maliciously schemed.
1868 F. E. Paget Lucretia 180 I resolved to adopt both plans, and if possible, scheme a mode of escape.
1893 J. H. McCarthy Red Diamonds I. 3 That modern travel..which has schemed out its great scheme of the Euphrates Valley railroad.
b. intransitive. To lay schemes; to use ingenuity, resort to contrivance; to devise plans, esp. underhand or with sinister motive.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot [verb (intransitive)]
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conspire1393
compass1430
malign?a1439
contrivec1440
machine?c1450
forthink1494
pretenda1500
practise1537
pack1568
brigue1580
machinate1602
manage1603
plot1607
tamper1607
faction1609
collogue1646
intriguea1714
to lay a scheme1826
scheme1842
angle1892
wheel and deal1961
1842 R. Browning Count Gismond ii And doubtlessly ere he could draw All points to one, he must have schemed.
1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables x. 169 You may scheme for me as much as you please; but I'm not going to give up this one scheme of my own.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. iv. 471 It is not true that Friedrich had schemed to send Henri round by Petersburg.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xix. 355 Half-a-dozen plans suggested themselves to his crafty brain as he sat brooding and scheming.
2. transitive. To reduce to a scheme or formula. Also, to scheme out: to plan methodically. rare.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)]
forethinkc897
bethinka1225
compass1297
contrivec1330
ordain1340
conjectc1380
imaginec1380
cast1382
ordaina1387
advisec1400
forecast1413
imagec1450
ordainc1450
project1477
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invent1539
aimc1540
practise1550
plat1556
trive1573
meditate1582
patterna1586
plot1589
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design1594
chew1600
forelay1605
to map out1618
to cut out1619
agitate1629
laya1631
plod1631
cut1645
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to scheme out1716
plan1718
model1725
to rough out1738
to lay out1741
plan1755
prethink1760
shape1823
programme1834
pre-plan1847
encompass1882
target1948
the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > reduce to order > reduce to a scheme
schematizea1866
scheme1866
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 19 The King's having the Opinion or Endeavour of..any Body..in Scheming out the rough Draft..of the Treatise..can't be any Argument that the King was not the Author of it.
1858 H. Bushnell Nature & Supernatural xii. 400 It may scheme out a system or hypothesis.
1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice i. ii. 57 Every such attempt to scheme the work of Christ, and put him in the terms of the understanding.
3. intransitive. To go on the spree. Also transitive to play truant from (school). ? dialect. Cf. scheme n.1 5d.
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society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous
revelc1390
ragea1400
roara1450
jet?1518
tirl on the berry?1520
roist1563
roist1574
revel1580
domineer1592
ranta1616
roister1663
scour1673
tory-rory1685
scheme1738
to run the rig1750
gilravagea1760
splore?a1799
spree1859
to go on the (or a) bend1863
to flare up1869
to whoop it up1873
to paint the town (red)1882
razzle1908
to make whoopee1920
boogie1929
to beat it up1933
ball1946
rave1961
society > education > learning > learner > [verb (transitive)] > play truant from school
plunk1870
truant1899
scheme1905
1738 E. Montagu Let. 15 Oct. (1809) I. 32 We all came croaking down to breakfast the next morning, and said we had caught no cold, as one always says when one has been scheming.
1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 510/1 He would be leathering me for scheming school.
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