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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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tract
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ækt/
- Homophone: tracked
- Rhymes: -ækt
Etymology 1
From tractate, from Latin tractatus, or borrowed from Latin tractus, the perfect passive participle of trah?. Doublet of trait.
Noun
tract (plural tracts)
- An area or expanse.
- a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth
- 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England
- small tracks of ground
- A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XIV, Henry of Essex
- Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in Lailand Hundred, involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time […]
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XIV, Henry of Essex
- Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
- (obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Older to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Simulation and Dissimulation
- The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Simulation and Dissimulation
- (obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
- The Prophet Telemus […] mark'd the Tracts of every Bird that flew
- (obsolete) Track; trace.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
- But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
- (obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
- 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I
- The tract of every thing Would, by a good discourser, lose some life Which action's self was tongue to.
- 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I
Synonyms
- (series of connected body organs): system
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (“to pull, drag”).
Verb
tract (third-person singular simple present tracts, present participle tracting, simple past and past participle tracted)
- (obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- (obsolete) To draw out; to protract.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Anagrams
- T-cart
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English tract.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?akt/
Noun
tract m (plural tracts)
- flyer, circular, pamphlet
Derived terms
- tracter
Further reading
- “tract” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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