Plot and Track

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 line or route along which something travels or moves.
  • usage: "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"
  • synonyms: path, course
• Evidence pointing to a possible solution.
  • usage: "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"
  • synonyms: lead, trail
• A pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels.
• A course over which races are run.
  • synonyms: racetrack, racecourse, raceway
• A distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc.
  • usage: "he played the first cut on the cd"; "the title track of the album"
  • synonyms: cut
• An endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground.
  • synonyms: caterpillar track, caterpillar tread
• Computer science. ( one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data)
  • synonyms: data track
• A groove on a phonograph recording.
• A bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll.
  • synonyms: rail, rails, runway
• Any road or path affording passage especially a rough one.
  • synonyms: cart track, cartroad
• The act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track.
  • synonyms: running

verb

• Carry on the feet and deposit.
  • usage: "track mud into the house"
• Observe or plot the moving path of something.
  • usage: "track a missile"
• Go after with the intent to catch.
  • usage: "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"
  • synonyms: chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after
• Travel across or pass over.
  • usage: "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
  • synonyms: traverse, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
• Make tracks upon. .

• (n.) A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
• (n.) Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
• (n.) The entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc.
• (v.t.) To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.
• (n.) A tract or area, as of land.
• (v.t.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.
• (n.) A road; a beaten path.
• (n.) A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
• (n.) The permanent way; the rails.
• (n.) A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

(DoD) A series of related contacts displayed on a data display console or other display device.
(DoD) To display or record the successive positions of a moving object.
(DoD) To lock onto a point of radiation and obtain guidance therefrom.
(DoD) To keep a gun properly aimed, or to point continuously a target-locating instrument at a moving target.
(DoD) The actual path of an aircraft above or a ship on the surface of the Earth. The course is the path that is planned; the track is the path that is actually taken.
(DoD) A metal part forming a path for a moving object; e.g., the track around the inside of a vehicle for moving a mounted machine gun.
(DoD) One of the two endless belts on which a full-track or half-track vehicle runs.