plot

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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”), and possibly Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄 (plat, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of sense 5.

Sense 9 is a back-formation from for the plot.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /plɒt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /plɑt/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /plɑt̞/
  • (Dublin) IPA^(key): /pläʔ/, /plä/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

plot (plural plots)

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

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

   Synonym: parcel

3. A grave.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grave

4. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

   Synonyms: scheme; see also Thesaurus:diagram
6. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. [from 1580s]

   Synonyms: conspiracy, intrigue, machination, scheme
7. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
8. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
9. A plan; a purpose.

   Synonyms: design; see also Thesaurus:design
11. (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

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

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

3. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• replot
• plot out

Translations

Anagrams

• OLTP, PTOL, lopt, polt

Albanian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁tós (“full”), from the root *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Compare Sanskrit प्रात (prātá), Latin com-plētus.

Adverb

plót

1. fully, to full capacity, to the brim

   Synonym: mbushur

   Antonyms: bosh, zbrazët

   me gojën plot ― with one's mouth full

   Dhoma ishte plot. ― The house was full.

2. full, cramped (of people, things, etc.)

   Synonym: mbushur

   Kopshti ishte plot me lule. ― The garden was full of flowers.

3. a lot, much

   Synonyms: shumë, mjaft

4. with everything, lacking nothing. complete, full
5. with a full, complete view

   Është hëna plot. ― It's a full moon.

6. (colloquial) successfully

   Synonym: në shenjë

   Antonym: bosh

7. full of. followed by an indefinite form

   Synonyms: tërë, gjithë

   plot gëzim ― full of joy

8. exactly, precisely

   Synonyms: pikërisht, tamam

   plot dy orë ― exactly two hours

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech plot, from Proto-Slavic *plotъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplot]

Noun

plot m inan

1. fence

   dřevěný plot ― wooden fence

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “plot”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “plot”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “plot”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English plot.

Noun

plot m or n (plural plots, diminutive plotje n)

1. plot (course of a story)

   Synonyms: intrige, verhaal, verwikkeling

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English plot.

Noun

plot m (plural plots, diminutive plotje n)

1. plot (graph or diagram)

   Synonyms: diagram, grafiek

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

plot

1. inflection of plotten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plo/
• IPA^(key): /plɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
• Rhymes: -o, -ɔ

Noun

plot m (plural plots)

1. traffic cone
2. cone used in slalom

Further reading

• “plot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch plot, from English plot, from Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɔt/

Noun

plot

1. plot (course of a story)

Further reading

• plot on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id
• “plot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plot/

Noun

plot m

1. plot (of land)

Descendants

• Middle English: plot
  • English: plot

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “plot”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɔt
• Syllabification: plot

Noun

plot f

1. genitive plural of plota

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plotъ.

Noun

plȏt m inan (Cyrillic spelling пло̑т)

1. fence

Declension

Further reading

• “plot”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “plot”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Spanish

Noun

plot m (plural plots)

1. (story-telling) plot