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单词 plotting-paper
释义

plot1 /plot/

noun
  1. A small piece of ground
  2. A spot or small area on any surface (obsolete)
  3. A ground plan of a building, plan of a field, etc
  4. The story or scheme of connected events running through a play, novel, etc
  5. A secret scheme, usu made in combination with others, to bring about something, often illegal or evil, a conspiracy
  6. A stratagem or secret contrivance
transitive verb (plottˈing; plottˈed)
  1. To lay out in plots, dispose
  2. To make a plan of
  3. To create the plot of (a play, etc)
  4. To represent on or by a graph
  5. To conspire or lay plans for
intransitive verb

To conspire

ORIGIN: OE plot a patch of ground; influenced by (or partly from) Fr complot a conspiracy; cf plat2

plotˈful adjective

plotˈless adjective

plottˈer noun

plottˈing noun and adjective

plottˈingly adverb

plotˈ-proof adjective

Safe from any danger by plots

plottˈing-paper noun

Paper ruled in squares for graph-drawing

lose the plot (informal)

  1. To be at a loss, lose one's way
  2. To lose one's temper
  3. To become insane

the plot thickens

The situation is becoming more complicated

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