Plot and Crawl

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

• A very slow movement.
  • usage: "the traffic advanced at a crawl"
• A swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick.
  • synonyms: front crawl, Australian crawl
• A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body.
  • usage: "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"
  • synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping

verb

• Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground.
  • usage: "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
  • synonyms: creep
• Feel as if crawling with insects.
  • usage: "My skin crawled-I was terrified"
• Be full of.
  • usage: "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
• Show submission or fear.
  • synonyms: fawn, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
• Swim by doing the crawl.
  • usage: "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"

• (v.i.) to move or advance in a feeble, slow or timorous manner.
• (n.) The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
• (v.i.) To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
• (v.i.) To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
• (n.) A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
• (v.i.) To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.