different between plot vs ruse

English

Etymology

From Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), Gothic ???????????????????? (plats, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of the "secret plan" sense.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pl?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

plot (plural plots)

1. (authorship) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. [from 1640s]

   Synonym: storyline

   • c. 1725, Alexander Pope, View of the Epic Poem

2. An area or land used for building on or planting on. [from 1550s]

   Synonym: parcel

3. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
4. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. [from 1580s]

   Synonyms: conspiracy, scheme

5. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
   • a. 1669, John Denham, On Mr Thomas Killigrew's Return from Venice, and Mr William Murrey's from Scotland

6. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
7. A plan; a purpose.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

plot (third-person singular simple present plots, present participle plotting, simple past and past participle plotted)

1. (transitive) To conceive (a crime, etc).

2. (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).

3. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
   • 1602, Richard Carew, Survey on Cornwall

4. (intransitive) To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.

Synonyms

• (contrive): becast
• (conceive a crime, etc): scheme
• (an area of land): lot

Derived terms

• replot

Translations

Anagrams

• OLTP, PTOL, lopt, polt

Albanian

Etymology

From plotë.

Adverb

plot

1. full, fully, full of

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plot?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?plot]

Noun

plot m

1. fence

Declension

Derived terms

• živý plot m

Related terms

• oplotit

Further reading

• plot in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• plot in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

plot

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of plotten
2. imperative of plotten

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plo/
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

plot m (plural plots)

1. traffic cone
2. cone used in slalom

Luxembourgish

Verb

plot

1. third-person singular present indicative of ploen
2. second-person plural present indicative of ploen
3. second-person plural imperative of ploen

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?t/

Noun

plot f

1. genitive plural of plota

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plot?.

Noun

pl?t m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. fence

Declension

Spanish

Noun

plot m (plural plots)

1. (story-telling) plot

English

Etymology

From Middle English r?se (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; circuitous course taken by a hunter to pursue a game animal”), from Old French rëuse, ruse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; trickery”) (modern French ruse (“trick, ruse; cunning, guile”)), from ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”), possibly from Latin rursus (“backward; on the contrary; again, in return”) or Latin rec?s?re, from rec?s? (“to decline, refuse; to object to, protest, reject”).

The verb is derived from the noun. Compare Middle French ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”); see further above.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ro?oz, IPA^(key): /?u?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?uz/
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Homophones: roos, rues

Noun

ruse (countable and uncountable, plural ruses)

1. (countable, often hunting, archaic, rare) A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.
2. (countable, by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick.

   Synonym: stratagem
3. (uncountable) Cunning, guile, trickery.

Related terms

• ruse de guerre
• recuse

Translations

Verb

ruse (third-person singular simple present ruses, present participle rusing, simple past and past participle rused)

1. (intransitive) To deceive or trick using a ruse.
2. (intransitive, hunting, archaic, rare) Of an animal: to turn or double back to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• ERUs, Ersu, Reus, Rues, US'er, rues, suer, sure, ures, user

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish ruse, from the same root as German Reuse (“fish-trap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru?s?/, [??o?s?]

Noun

ruse c (singular definite rusen, plural indefinite ruser)

1. fish-trap

Inflection

Esperanto

Etymology

rusa (“Russian”) +? -e (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ru.se/

Adverb

ruse

1. in the Russian language
2. in the manner of a Russian person

Related terms

• rusa (“Russian”)
• Rusio (“Russia”)
• ruso (“a Russian person”)

French

Etymology

From ruser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?yz/

Noun

ruse f (plural ruses)

1. (uncountable) cunning, guile
2. ruse, trick

Further reading

• “ruse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• rues, suer, sure, sûre, user

Middle English

Verb

ruse

1. (Northern) Alternative form of rosen (“to boast”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??s?/

Etymology 1

Possibly from a Celtic word, from Gaulish rusca, from Proto-Celtic *r?skos (“bark”), possibly from earlier *rukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewk- (“to dig, till (soil)”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (“to move, stir, rise, quarrel”) or *Hrew- (“to tear out, dig out, open, acquire”).

Cognate with Danish ruse (“fish trap”), Swedish ryssja (“fish trap”) and German Reuse (“fish trap”).

Noun

ruse f or m (definite singular rusa or rusen, indefinite plural ruser, definite plural rusene)

1. fish trap

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

ruse (imperative rus, present tense ruser, passive ruses, simple past rusa or ruset or ruste, past participle rusa or ruset or rust, present participle rusende)

1. to rev an engine
2. to rush

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

ruse (imperative rus, present tense ruser, passive ruses, simple past and past participle rusa or ruset, present participle rusende)

1. (reflexive) To use illegal drugs
2. to intoxicate

References

• “ruse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ruse

1. Alternative form of rusa

Old French

Etymology

Probably based on Latin rursus (“backwards”)

Noun

ruse f (oblique plural ruses, nominative singular ruse, nominative plural ruses)

1. evasive movements of a pursued animal
2. (by extension) trickery
3. (by extension) dream; daydream; fantasy
4. (by extension) lie; untruth

Descendants

• ? English: ruse
• French: ruse

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ru.s?/

Adjective

ruse

1. inflection of rusy:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ruse/

Adjective

ruse f pl or n pl

1. feminine plural of rus
2. neuter plural of rus