scheme /skēm/

1. A systematic plan of action for achieving an end
2. A plan for building operations of various kinds, or the buildings, etc, constructed, or the area covered (eg housing scheme, irrigation scheme)
3. A plan pursued secretly, insidiously, by intrigue, or for private ends
4. A project
5. A programme of action
6. A diagram of positions, esp (astrology) of planets
7. A table
8. A system
9. An arrangement
10. A rhetorical figure (obsolete)
11. An escapade (obsolete)

1. To plan
2. To reduce to a system
3. To lay schemes for

1. To form a plan
2. To lay schemes, to plot or intrigue
3. To indulge in an escapade (obsolete)

schēˈmer noun

schēˈmie noun (Scot sl)

A working-class youth from a council estate

schēˈming noun and adjective

• kid
• kidded
• kidder
• Kidderminster
• kidders
• kiddied
• kiddier
• kiddiers
• kiddies
• kiddiewink
• kiddiewinkie
• kiddiewinkies
• kiddiewinks
• kidding
• kiddingly
• kiddle
• kiddles
• kiddo
• kiddos
• kiddush
• kiddushes
• kiddy
• kiddying
• kiddywink
• kiddywinks