Plot and Portion

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

• Something determined in relation to something that includes it.
  • usage: "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton"
  • synonyms: part, component part, component, constituent
• Something less than the whole of a human artifact.
  • usage: "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"
  • synonyms: part
• The allotment of some amount by dividing something.
  • usage: "death gets more than its share of attention from theologians"
  • synonyms: parcel, share
• Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group.
  • usage: "he wanted his share in cash"
  • synonyms: share, part, percentage
• Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you. )
  • usage: "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
  • synonyms: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances
• Money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage.
  • synonyms: dowry, dowery, dower
• An individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal.
  • usage: "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each"
  • synonyms: helping, serving

verb

• Give out.
  • usage: "We were assigned new uniforms"
  • synonyms: assign, allot

• (n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.
• (n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.
• (v.t.) To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.
• (n.) That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• (n.) A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
• (v.t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.
• (n.) A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.