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plotting

/plot/US // plɒt //UK // (plɒt) //

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n.名词 noun
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    • : a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
    • : Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.
    • : a small piece or area of ground: a garden plot; burial plot.
    • : a measured piece or parcel of land: a house on a two-acre plot.
    • : a plan, map, diagram, or other graphic representation, as of land, a building, etc.
    • : a list, timetable, or scheme dealing with any of the various arrangements for the production of a play, motion picture, etc.: According to the property plot, there should be a lamp stage left.
    • : a chart showing the course of a craft, as a ship or airplane.
    • : Artillery. a point or points located on a map or chart: target plot.
v.有主动词 verb
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    plot·ted, plot·ting.

    • : to plan secretly, especially something hostile or evil: to plot mutiny.
    • : to mark on a plan, map, or chart, as the course of a ship or aircraft.
    • : to draw a plan or map of, as a tract of land or a building.
    • : to divide into plots.
    • : to determine and mark, as on plotting paper, by means of measurements or coordinates.
    • : to draw by means of points so marked.
    • : to represent by means of such a curve.
    • : to devise or construct the plot of.
    • : to prepare a list, timetable, or scheme of, as for a play or motion picture: The stage manager hadn't plotted the set changes until one day before the dress rehearsal.
    • : to make by graph.
v.无主动词 verb
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    plot·ted, plot·ting.

    • : to plan or scheme secretly; form a plot; conspire.
    • : to devise or develop a literary or dramatic plot.
    • : to be marked or located by means of measurements or coordinates, as on plotting paper.

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Examples

  • Still, fans were mainly baffled at both Dean’s manner of death and the many unresolved plot lines or absent elements from the episode.

  • After mixing up the soil at each site, they added microplastics to some of those plots.

  • Those with a high tolerance for antiheroic political thrillers will have no problem watching it — or figuring out its overall plot well before it’s revealed.

  • So if someone claims that election problems are evidence of a nefarious political plot, take a moment to consider other possible causes.

  • The key Venus observations were spectra, or plots of the light coming from the planet in a range of wavelengths.

  • A common view in Russia is that the West was involved in plotting the revolution in Ukraine.

  • U.S. intelligence agencies accuse the Khorasan veterans of plotting attacks against commercial airliners in the West.

  • But what Waters is doing in The Paying Guests is something more nuanced than mere plotting pyrotechnics.

  • He is as conversant with HTML and Git as with metaphor and the twists and turns of plotting.

  • Now ISIS controls one third of a state in the Mideast, and is plotting attacks against America.

  • All the miserable stratagems they had been guilty of to win him; the dishonest plotting and planning.

  • With nonjurors and persons suspected of plotting against the existing government he must not appear to have any connection.

  • The plotting of Vautrin, who bore for him an unnatural affection, saved his life; the sentence was commuted.

  • To be sitting there in an English vicarage plotting violence against a woman disturbed him.

  • Kildare was also accused of plotting with him, and this charge was never fully cleared up.