Plot and Influence

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 power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc.
  • usage: "used her parents' influence to get the job"
• Causing something without any direct or apparent effort.
• A cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do.
  • usage: "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking"
• The effect of one thing (or person) on another.
  • usage: "the influence of mechanical action"
• One having power to influence another.
  • usage: "she was the most important influence in my life"; "he was a bad influence on the children"

verb

• Have and exert influence or effect.
  • usage: "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate"
  • synonyms: act upon, work
• Shape or influence; give direction to.
  • usage: "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
  • synonyms: determine, shape, mold, regulate
• Induce into action by using one's charm.
  • usage: "She charmed him into giving her all his money"
  • synonyms: charm, tempt

• (n.) A flowing in or upon; influx.
• (n.) Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.
• (n.) Induction.
• (n.) Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs.
• (v.t.) To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce.