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plot

See also: Plot and płot

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), and possibly Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄 (plat, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of sense 5.

Sense 9 is a back-formation from for the plot.

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Noun

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plot (plural plots)

  1. (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. [from 1640s]
    Synonym: storyline
    • c. 1725, Alexander Pope, View of the Epic Poem:
      If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.
  2. An area or land used for building on or planting on. [from 1550s]
    Synonym: parcel
  3. A grave.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grave
    He's buried in the family plot.
  4. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
    Synonyms: scheme; see also Thesaurus:diagram
    • 2017, Mark Chambers, Tony Holmes, Nakajima B5N ‘Kate’ and B6N ‘Jill’ Units, page 32:
      I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.
  6. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. [from 1580s]
    Synonyms: conspiracy, intrigue, machination, scheme
    The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
    The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.
  7. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
    • a. 1669, John Denham, On Mr Thomas Killigrew's Return from Venice, and Mr William Murrey's from Scotland:
      a man of much plot
  8. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
  9. A plan; a purpose.
    Synonyms: design; see also Thesaurus:design
    • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
      no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls
  11. (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
    Actor X has some great plot near the end of E07.

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Translations

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course of a story

Verb

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plot (third-person singular simple present plots, present participle plotting, simple past and past participle plotted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
    They had plotted a robbery.
    They were plotting against the king.
  2. (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
    They plotted the number of edits per day.
  3. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
    Every five minutes they plotted their position.
    • 1602, Richard Carew, Survey on Cornwall:
      This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁tós (“full”),[1][2][3] from the root *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Compare Sanskrit प्रात (prātá), Latin com-plētus.

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plót

  1. fully, to full capacity, to the brim
    Synonym: mbushur
    Antonyms: bosh, zbrazët
    me gojën plot ― with one's mouth full
    Dhoma ishte plot. ― The house was full.
  2. full, cramped (of people, things, etc.)
    Synonym: mbushur
    Kopshti ishte plot me lule. ― The garden was full of flowers.
  3. a lot, much
    Synonyms: shumë, mjaft
  4. with everything, lacking nothing. complete, full
  5. with a full, complete view
    Është hëna plot. ― It's a full moon.
  6. (colloquial) successfully
    Synonym: në shenjë
    Antonym: bosh
  7. full of. followed by an indefinite form
    Synonyms: tërë, gjithë
    plot gëzim ― full of joy
  8. exactly, precisely
    Synonyms: pikërisht, tamam
    plot dy orë ― exactly two hours

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References

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  1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “pľot”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 345
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “pel-, pelə-, pēl-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 799
  3. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “plotë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 335

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  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980

Czech

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Czech plot, from Proto-Slavic *plotъ.

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Noun

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plot m inan

  1. fence
    dřevěný plot ― wooden fence

Declension

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Declension of plot (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative plot ploty
genitive plotu plotů
dative plotu plotům
accusative plot ploty
vocative plote ploty
locative plotu, plotě plotech
instrumental plotem ploty

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Further reading

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  • “plot”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “plot”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “plot”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English plot.

Noun

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plot m or n (plural plots, diminutive plotje n)

  1. plot (course of a story)
    Synonyms: intrige, verhaal, verwikkeling

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English plot.

Noun

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plot m (plural plots, diminutive plotje n)

  1. plot (graph or diagram)
    Synonyms: diagram, grafiek

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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plot

  1. inflection of plotten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

French

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plot m (plural plots)

  1. traffic cone
  2. cone used in slalom

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch plot, from English plot, from Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin.

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plot

  1. plot (course of a story)

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Luxembourgish

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Verb

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plot

  1. third-person singular present indicative of ploen
  2. second-person plural present indicative of ploen
  3. second-person plural imperative of ploen

Old English

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Noun

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plot m

  1. plot (of land)

Descendants

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  • Middle English: plot

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Polish

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plot f

  1. genitive plural of plota

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plotъ.

Noun

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plȏt m (Cyrillic spelling пло̑т)

  1. fence

Declension

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Declension of plot
singular plural
nominative plot plotovi
genitive plota plotova
dative plotu plotovima
accusative plot plotove
vocative plotu/plote (?) plotovi
locative plotu plotovima
instrumental plotom plotovima

Further reading

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  • “plot”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • “plot”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

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Noun

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plot m (plural plots)

  1. (story-telling) plot
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