Framing and Plot

noun

• Formulation of the plans and important details.
  • usage: "the framing of judicial decrees"
• A framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror.
  • usage: "the frame enhances but is not itself the subject of attention"; "the frame was much more valuable than the miror it held"
  • synonyms: frame

verb

• Enclose in or as if in a frame.
  • usage: "frame a picture"
  • synonyms: frame, frame in, border
• Enclose in a frame, as of a picture.
  • synonyms: frame
• Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
  • usage: "I was set up"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"
  • synonyms: ensnare, entrap, frame, set up
• Formulate in a particular style or language.
  • usage: "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
  • synonyms: frame, redact, cast, put, couch
• Make up plans or basic details for.
  • usage: "frame a policy"
  • synonyms: frame, compose, draw up
• Construct by fitting or uniting parts together.
  • synonyms: frame, frame up

• (n.) A framework or a sy/ of frames.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Frame.
• (n.) The act, process or style of putting together a frame or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.

noun

• A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal. )
  • usage: "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"
  • synonyms: secret plan, game
• A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.
  • usage: "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"
  • synonyms: plot of land, plot of ground, patch
• The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc..
  • usage: "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
• A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object.

verb

• Plan secretly, usually something illegal.
  • usage: "They plotted the overthrow of the government"
• Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed.
  • synonyms: diagram
• Make a plat of.
  • usage: "Plat the town"
  • synonyms: plat
• Devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet. )
  • usage: "the writer is plotting a new novel"

• (v.i.) To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
• (v.i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
• (n.) A plan; a purpose.
• (n.) A plantation laid out.
• (n.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
• (n.) A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
• (v.t.) To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
• (v.t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
• (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; as, the Rye-house Plot.
• (n.) A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
• (n.) Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
• (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.

(DoD, NATO) Map, chart, or graph representing data of any sort.
(DoD, NATO) Representation on a diagram or chart of the position or course of a target in terms of angles and distances from positions; location of a position on a map or a chart.
(DoD, NATO) The visual display of a single location of an airborne object at a particular instant of time.
(DoD, NATO) A portion of a map or overlay on which are drawn the outlines of the areas covered by one or more photographs. See also master plot.