Plot and Swing

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 state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity.
  • usage: "the party went with a swing"; "it took time to get into the swing of things"
• Mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth.
• A sweeping blow or stroke.
  • usage: "he took a wild swing at my head"
• Changing location by moving back and forth.
  • synonyms: swinging, vacillation
• A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz.
  • synonyms: swing music, jive
• A jaunty rhythm in music.
  • synonyms: lilt
• The act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it.
  • synonyms: golf stroke, golf shot
• In baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball.
  • usage: "he took a vicious cut at the ball"
  • synonyms: baseball swing, cut
• A square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them.

verb

• Move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting.
  • usage: "He swung his left fist"; "swing a bat"
• Move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner.
  • usage: "He swung back"
  • synonyms: sway
• Change direction with a swinging motion; turn.
  • usage: "swing back"; "swing forward"
• Influence decisively.
  • usage: "This action swung many votes over to his side"
  • synonyms: swing over
• Make a big sweeping gesture or movement.
  • synonyms: sweep, swing out
• Hang freely.
  • usage: "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling"
  • synonyms: dangle, drop
• Hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement.
  • usage: "The soccer player began to swing at the referee"
• Alternate dramatically between high and low values.
  • usage: "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down"
• Live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style.
  • usage: "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely"
• Have a certain musical rhythm.
  • usage: "The music has to swing"
• Be a social swinger; socialize a lot.
  • synonyms: get around
• Play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm.
• Engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends.
  • usage: "There were many swinging couples in the 1960's"

• (n.) To be hanged.
• (n.) Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.
• (v.t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward or from one side to the other.
• (n.) Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
• (v.t.) To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
• (n.) Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
• (v.i.) To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
• (n.) Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
• (v.i.) To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
• (n.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
• (n.) The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
• (v.t.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
• (n.) A line, cord or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.
• (v.i.) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.