Plot and Spot

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 point located with respect to surface features of some region.
  • usage: "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet"
  • synonyms: topographic point, place
• A short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising.
• An outstanding characteristic.
  • usage: "his acting was one of the high points of the movie"
  • synonyms: point
• A blemish made by dirt.
  • usage: "he had a smudge on his cheek"
  • synonyms: smudge, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur
• A small contrasting part of something.
  • usage: "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"
  • synonyms: speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation
• A section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance.
  • usage: "they changed his spot on the program"
• A business establishment for entertainment.
  • usage: "night spot"
• A job in an organization.
  • usage: "he occupied a post in the treasury"
  • synonyms: position, post, berth, office, billet, place, situation
• A slight attack of illness.
  • usage: "he has a touch of rheumatism"
  • synonyms: touch
• A small piece or quantity of something.
  • usage: "a spot of tea"; "a bit of paper"; "a bit of lint"; "I gave him a bit of my mind"
  • synonyms: bit
• A mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit.
  • synonyms: pip
• A lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer.
  • synonyms: spotlight
• A playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value.
  • usage: "an eight-spot"
• An act that brings discredit to the person who does it.
  • usage: "he made a huge blot on his copybook"
  • synonyms: blot, smear, smirch, stain

verb

• Catch sight of.
  • synonyms: descry, espy, spy
• Detect with the senses.
  • usage: "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
  • synonyms: recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
• Mar or impair with a flaw.
  • usage: "her face was blemished"
  • synonyms: blemish
• Make a spot or mark onto.
  • usage: "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
  • synonyms: fleck, blob, blot
• Become spotted.
  • usage: "This dress spots quickly"
• Mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition.
  • usage: "spot the areas that one should clearly identify"

• (a.) on hand for immediate delivery after sale; -- said of commodities; as, spot wheat.
• (a.) Lit., being on the spot or place;.
• (n.) A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
• (v.i.) To become stained with spots.
• (n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.
• (n.) A small part of a different color from the main part or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
• (n.) Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
• (n.) The southern redfish or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
• (n.) A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
• (n.) A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
• (n.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
• (v.t.) To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.
• (v.t.) To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.
• (v.t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.

Term which describes one-time open market cash transaction, where a commodity is purchased "on the' SPOT'" at current market rates. Spot transactions are in contrast to term sales, which specify a steady supply of product over a period of time.

(DoD) To determine by observation, deviations of ordnance from the target for the purpose of supplying necessary information for the adjustment of fire.
(DoD) To place in a proper location.
(DoD) An approved shipboard helicopter landing site. See also ordnance.