Plot and Traced

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.

verb

• Follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something.
  • usage: "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba"; "trace the student's progress"
  • synonyms: trace, follow
• Make a mark or lines on a surface.
  • usage: "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
  • synonyms: trace, draw, line, describe, delineate
• To go back over again.
  • usage: "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"
  • synonyms: trace, retrace
• Pursue or chase relentlessly.
  • usage: "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"
  • synonyms: hound, hunt, trace
• Discover traces of.
  • usage: "She traced the circumstances of her birth"
  • synonyms: trace
• Make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along.
  • usage: "The children traced along the edge of the dark forest"; "The women traced the pasture"
  • synonyms: trace
• Copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of.
  • usage: "trace a design"; "trace a pattern"
  • synonyms: trace
• Read with difficulty.
  • usage: "Can you decipher this letter"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"
  • synonyms: decipher, trace

(imp.&p.p.) of Trace.