plot

Noun

• a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object

• the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
  • the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal
    

• a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
  • a bean plot
    
  • a cabbage patch
    
  • a briar patch
    

• a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
  • they concocted a plot to discredit the governor
    
  • I saw through his little game from the start
    

Verb

• devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
  • the writer is plotting a new novel
    

• make a plat of
  • Plat the town
    

• make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed

• plan secretly, usually something illegal
  • They plotted the overthrow of the government
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  plot of land , plot of ground , patch , secret plan , game , plat , diagram