different between plot vs stretch
plot
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)
- (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
- An area or land used for building on or planting on. [from 1550s]
- Synonym: parcel
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. [from 1580s]
- Synonyms: conspiracy, scheme
- 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
- a. 1669, John Denham, On Mr Thomas Killigrew's Return from Venice, and Mr William Murrey's from Scotland
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A plan; a purpose.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- 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)
- (transitive) To conceive (a crime, etc).
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey on Cornwall
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey on Cornwall
- (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
- full, fully, full of
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plot?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?plot]
Noun
plot m
- 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
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of plotten
- imperative of plotten
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plo/
- Rhymes: -o
Noun
plot m (plural plots)
- traffic cone
- cone used in slalom
Luxembourgish
Verb
plot
- third-person singular present indicative of ploen
- second-person plural present indicative of ploen
- second-person plural imperative of ploen
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl?t/
Noun
plot f
- genitive plural of plota
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plot?.
Noun
pl?t m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- fence
Declension
Spanish
Noun
plot m (plural plots)
- (story-telling) plot
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stretch
English
Etymology
From Middle English strecchen, from Old English stre??an (“to stretch, hold out, extend, spread out, prostrate”), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch, make taut or tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-, *streg-, *treg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with West Frisian strekke, Dutch strekken (“to stretch, straighten”), German strecken (“to stretch, straighten, elongate”), Danish strække (“to stretch”), Swedish sträcka (“to stretch”), Dutch strak (“taut, tight”), Albanian shtriqem (“to stretch”). More at stark.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Verb
stretch (third-person singular simple present stretches, present participle stretching, simple past and past participle stretched or (obsolete) straught or (obsolete) straight)
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- 1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects
- The inner membrane […] because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.
- 1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- (intransitive) To extend to a limit point
- (transitive) To increase.
- (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)
- (slang, transitive, archaic) To execute by hanging.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
Translations
See also
- pandiculate
Noun
stretch (plural stretches)
- An act of stretching.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A segment or length of material.
- (Britain, slang, archaic) A walk.
- Evelyn Underhill, quoted in 2010, Evelyn Underhill, ?Carol Poston, The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill (page 81)
- In the afternoon I went for a stretch into the country, & about 4 it cleared up pretty well, so I hurried back & we got a cart & drove to Bassano, a little town about 8 miles off, that we wanted to see.
- Evelyn Underhill, quoted in 2010, Evelyn Underhill, ?Carol Poston, The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill (page 81)
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A length of time.
- After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever […]
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- Synonym: stint
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A stretch limousine.
Translations
Derived terms
Descendants
- Esperanto: stre?i
Further reading
- stretch at OneLook Dictionary Search
References
- (a walk): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
- strecht
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