Plot and Movement

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 change of position that does not entail a change of location.
  • usage: "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"
  • synonyms: motion, move, motility
• The act of changing location from one place to another.
  • usage: "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"
  • synonyms: motion, move
• A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something.
  • synonyms: motion
• A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
  • usage: "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"
  • synonyms: social movement, front
• A major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata.
  • usage: "the second movement is slow and melodic"
• A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.
  • usage: "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort"
  • synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort
• An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object.
  • usage: "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"
  • synonyms: apparent motion, motion, apparent movement
• A euphemism for defecation.
  • usage: "he had a bowel movement"
  • synonyms: bowel movement, bm
• A general tendency to change (as of opinion. )
  • usage: "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
  • synonyms: drift, trend
• The driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock. )
  • usage: "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
• The act of changing the location of something.
  • usage: "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"

• (n.) The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece.
• (n.) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
• (n.) The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine; the party of movement.
• (n.) Manner or style of moving; as, a slow or quick or sudden, movement.
• (n.) One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony.
• (n.) A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch.