Plot and Slice

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 share of something.
  • usage: "a slice of the company's revenue"
  • synonyms: piece
• A serving that has been cut from a larger portion.
  • usage: "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread"
  • synonyms: piece
• A wound made by cutting.
  • usage: "he put a bandage over the cut"
  • synonyms: cut, gash, slash
• A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
  • usage: "he took lessons to cure his slicing"
  • synonyms: fade, slicing
• A thin flat piece cut off of some object.
• A spatula for spreading paint or ink.

verb

• Make a clean cut through.
  • usage: "slit her throat"
  • synonyms: slit
• Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction.
• Cut into slices.
  • usage: "Slice the salami, please"
  • synonyms: slice up
• Hit a ball so that it causes a backspin. .

• (v.t.) To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.
• (v.t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.
• (v.t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
• (v.t.) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
• (v.t.) To cut into parts; to divide.
• (v.t.) A salver, platter or tray.
• (v.t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.
• (v.t.) To cut into thin pieces or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
• (v.t.) A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
• (v.t.) A broad, thin piece of plaster.
• (v.t.) That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
• (v.t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.

(DoD) An average logistic planning factor used to obtain estimates of requirements for personnel and materiel. (e.g., a personnel slice generally consists of the total strength of the stated basic combatant elements, plus its proportionate share of all supporting and higher headquarters personnel.)