Plot and Thinking

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 process of using your mind to consider something carefully.
  • usage: "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought"
  • synonyms: thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation

verb

• Judge or regard; look upon; judge.
  • usage: "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"
  • synonyms: think, believe, consider, conceive
• Expect, believe, or suppose.
  • usage: "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"
  • synonyms: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
• Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments.
  • usage: "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"
  • synonyms: think, cogitate, cerebrate
• Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.
  • usage: "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number"; "Do you remember that he once loved you"; "call up memories"
  • synonyms: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think
• Imagine or visualize.
  • usage: "Just think-you could be rich one day"; "Think what a scene it must have been"
  • synonyms: think
• Focus one's attention on a certain state.
  • usage: "Think big"; "think thin"
  • synonyms: think
• Have in mind as a purpose.
  • usage: "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"
  • synonyms: intend, mean, think
• Decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting.
  • usage: "Can you think what to do next"
  • synonyms: think
• Ponder; reflect on, or reason about.
  • usage: "Think the matter through"; "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"
  • synonyms: think
• Dispose the mind in a certain way.
  • usage: "Do you really think so"
  • synonyms: think
• Have or formulate in the mind.
  • usage: "think good thoughts"
  • synonyms: think
• Be capable of conscious thought.
  • usage: "Man is the only creature that thinks"
  • synonyms: think
• Bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation.
  • usage: "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"
  • synonyms: think

adjective

• Endowed with the capacity to reason.
  • synonyms: intelligent, reasoning

• (n.) The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.
• (a.) Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Think.