Plot and Plane

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

• An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets.
  • usage: "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"
  • synonyms: airplane, aeroplane
• Mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape. (
  • usage: "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane"
  • synonyms: sheet
• A level of existence or development.
  • usage: "he lived on a worldly plane"
• A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood.
  • synonyms: planer, planing machine
• A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood.
  • usage: "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"
  • synonyms: carpenter's plane, woodworking plane

verb

• Cut or remove with or as if with a plane.
  • usage: "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"
  • synonyms: shave
• Travel on the surface of water.
  • synonyms: skim
• Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane.
  • usage: "plane the top of the door"

adjective

• Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another.
  • usage: "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
  • synonyms: flat, level

• (v.i.) Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.
• (a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
• (n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.
• (a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
• (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
• (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
• (a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.
• (a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic or of the equator.
• (a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
• (a.) To efface or remove.