Plot and Course

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.

noun

• Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings.
  • usage: "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
  • synonyms: course of study, course of instruction, class
• A connected series of events or actions or developments.
  • usage: "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"
  • synonyms: line
• General line of orientation.
  • usage: "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"
  • synonyms: trend
• A mode of action.
  • usage: "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"; "once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place"
  • synonyms: course of action
• A line or route along which something travels or moves.
  • usage: "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"
  • synonyms: path, track
• A body of students who are taught together.
  • usage: "early morning classes are always sleepy"
  • synonyms: class, form, grade
• Part of a meal served at one time.
  • usage: "she prepared a three course meal"
• Construction) a layer of masonry. (
  • usage: "a course of bricks"
  • synonyms: row
• Facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport.
  • usage: "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile"

verb

• Move swiftly through or over.
  • usage: "ships coursing the Atlantic"
• Move along, of liquids.
  • usage: "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
  • synonyms: run, flow, feed
• Hunt with hounds.
  • usage: "He often courses hares"

adverb

• As might be expected.
  • usage: "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"
  • synonyms: naturally, of course

• (n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
• (n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
• (n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
• (n.) The menses.
• (v.t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
• (v.i.) To run as in a race or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
• (n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
• (v.t.) To run, hunt or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
• (v.i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
• (n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
• (n.) Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
• (n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.
• (n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
• (n.) Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.
• (v.t.) To run through or over.
• (n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
• (n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
• (n.) A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

(DoD, NATO) The intended direction of movement in the horizontal plane.