plot, secret plan, game (noun)

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"

plot, plot of land, plot of ground, patch (noun)

a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation

"a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"

plot (noun)

the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.

"the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"

plot (verb)

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

plot (verb)

plan secretly, usually something illegal

"They plotted the overthrow of the government"

diagram, plot (verb)

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

plat, plot (verb)

make a plat of

"Plat the town"

plot (verb)

devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)

"the writer is plotting a new novel"

plot (Noun)

The general course of a story including significant events that determine its course or significant patterns of events.

plot (Noun)

An area or land used for building on or planting on.

plot (Noun)

A plan to commit a crime.

plot (Noun)

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

plot (Verb)

To conceive (a crime, etc).

plot (Verb)

To trace out (a graph or diagram).

plot (Verb)

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

plot (Verb)

To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.

Plot

Plot is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect how the reader views the story, or simply by coincidence. One is generally interested in how well this pattern of events accomplishes some artistic or emotional effect. An intricate, complicated plot is called an imbroglio, but even the simplest statements of plot may include multiple inferences, as in traditional ballads.