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plotter

/plot-er/US // ˈplɒt ər //UK // (ˈplɒtə) //

绘图者,绘图员,绘图仪,谋划者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that plots.
    • : an instrument, as a protractor, for plotting lines and measuring angles on a chart.
    • : Computers. an output device that produces a graphical representation by drawing on paper, as with one or more attached pens.

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Examples

  • In the end, her advanced age and entrenched political ties caused the plotters to rule out Diamante just as they had Sanon, according to the mercenary’s testimony.

  • The plotters reconsidered, then backed down, a spiral that started Tuesday and continued Wednesday.

  • The plotters both anticipated violence and continued to act in concert after the break-in, investigators alleged in court documents.

  • Awoonor had driven the friend to Togo only to be accused of abetting the escape of a plotter in an unsuccessful coup.

  • Another accused 9/11 plotter, Ramzi bin al-Shibh was arrested in Karachi that same year.

  • The American al Qaeda plotter Anwar al-Awlaki was the most prolific advocate of the lone-attack tactic.

  • The officer cut off contact with Headley when Mir, the lead plotter, backed away from the operation in March 2009, documents say.

  • The Guardian calls Hage a stylist and a plotter who manages both “with great brio and expertise.”

  • He is suspected of radical proclivities, and is still, it is rumoured, an active plotter against the existing monarchy.

  • For the time they were of no use to that plotter, whose plans had, up to the present time, failed.

  • And what would induce me to expose her to the public gaze as the chief victim, or the chief plotter in a fraud?

  • By a grant which passed the Great Seal without fee in March, 1587, he acquired much of the principal plotter's property.

  • Those few last words whispered to Sapazani by the white arch-plotter had contained a death warrant.