plot

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose: a garden plot.
2. n. A measured area of land; a lot.
3. n. A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
4. n. See graph¹.
5. n. The pattern of events or main story in a narrative or drama.
6. n. A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.
7. v. To represent graphically, as on a chart: plot a ship's course.
8. v. Mathematics To locate (points or other figures) on a graph by means of coordinates.
9. v. Mathematics To draw (a curve) connecting points on a graph.
10. v. To conceive and arrange the action and incidents of: "I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read” ( James Baldwin).
11. v. To form a plot for; prearrange secretly or deviously: plot an assassination.
12. v. To be located by means of coordinates, as on a chart or with data.
13. v. To form or take part in a plot; scheme.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A piece of ground; specifically, a small piece of ground of well-defined shape; a patch or spot of ground.
2. n. A patch, spot, or splotch of any kind, as in a garment.
3. n. In surveying, a plan or draft of a field, farm, estate, etc., surveyed and delineated on paper; a map or plan.
4. n. A fully formulated scheme or plan; a systematized purpose; design; aim.
5. n. A stratagem or secret plan; a secret project; an intrigue; a conspiracy.
6. n. The story of a play, poem, novel, or romance, comprising a complication of incidents which are at last unfolded by unexpected means; the intrigue.
7. n. Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plan.
8. To make a map or plan of; lay down on paper according to scale: as, to plot a farm or an estate; to plot a ship's course on a chart.
9. To determine or fix by measurements on a map or chart.
10. To plan; form plans for; devise; contrive; conspire to effect or bring about: now rarely used in a good sense.
11. Synonyms To concoct, brew, hatch, plan.
12. To form a plan or plot; scheme; especially, to conspire.
13. To scald; steep in very hot water.
14. To make (any liquid) scalding hot.
15. To divide into plots, as a building-site.
16. To press into cakes or balls, as soap.

Wiktionary

1. n. The general course of a story including significant events that determine its course or significant patterns of events.
2. n. An area or land used for building on or planting on.
3. n. A plan to commit a crime.
4. n. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
5. v. transitive To conceive (a crime, etc).
6. v. transitive To trace out (a graph or diagram).
7. v. transitive To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
8. v. intransitive To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A small extent of ground; a plat.
2. n. obsolete A plantation laid out.
3. n. (Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
4. v. To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
5. n. Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue.
6. n. obsolete A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
7. n. obsolete Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
8. n. A plan; a purpose.
9. n. In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
10. v. To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
11. v. To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
12. v. To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
2. v. make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
3. n. a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
4. v. make a plat of
5. n. a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
6. v. plan secretly, usually something illegal
7. v. devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
8. n. the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.