Plot and Scene

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

• The place where some action occurs.
  • usage: "the police returned to the scene of the crime"
• An incident (real or imaginary. )
  • usage: "their parting was a sad scene"
• The visual percept of a region.
  • usage: "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views"
  • synonyms: view, aspect, prospect, vista, panorama
• A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film.
  • synonyms: shot
• A situation treated as an observable object.
  • usage: "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
  • synonyms: picture
• A subdivision of an act of a play.
  • usage: "the first act has three scenes"
• A display of bad temper.
  • usage: "he had a fit"; "she threw a tantrum"; "he made a scene"
  • synonyms: fit, tantrum, conniption
• Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept.
  • usage: "he painted scenes from everyday life"; "figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment"
  • synonyms: view
• The context and environment in which something is set.
  • usage: "the perfect setting for a ghost story"
  • synonyms: setting
• The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale.
  • usage: "they worked all night painting the scenery"
  • synonyms: scenery

• (n.) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.
• (n.) The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs or in which the action of a story, play or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition or action.
• (n.) An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.
• (n.) A landscape or part of a landscape; scenery.
• (v.t.) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
• (n.) An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artifical or affected action or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.
• (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes.
• (n.) So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.