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Plot and Packet

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"
  • A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.
    • usage: "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar 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.
  • Make a plat of.
    • usage: "Plat the town"
  • Devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet. )
    • usage: "the writer is plotting a new novel"
(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

  • (n.) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.
  • (v.t.) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
  • (v.i.) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
  • (v.t.) To make up into a packet or bundle.
  • (n.) A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.