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Definition: Plot |
PlotNoun1. A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal); "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor". 2. A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch". 3. The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal". 4. A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object. Verb1. Plan secretly, usually something illegal; "They plotted the overthrow fo the government". 2. Make a schematic or technical drawing of; make a diagram of. 3. Make a plat of; "Plat the town". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "plot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | The area from which a tree or group of trees are sampled. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | The plan or scheme of any literary creation, as a play, poem, or work of prose fiction. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Plot in a theatrical sense, does not only mean the incidents which lead to the development of a play, but half a dozen other things; thus, the "scene plot" is a list of the various scenes to be used; the "flyman's plot" is a list of the articles required by the flyman in the "flies;" there is also the "gasman's plot;" the "property plot" is a list of all the properties required in the play, for which the manager is responsible. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mathematics | A unit is a person, animal, plant or thing which is actually studied by a researcher; the basic objects upon which the study or experiment is carried out. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military & Defense | The visual display of a single location of an airborne object at a particular instant of time. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | A diagram drawn to scale showing land boundaries and subdivisions, together with all data essential to the description and identification of the several units shown thereon, and including one or more certificates indicating due approval. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Conspiracy is the act of working in secret to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations. In United States v. Shabani (1994) the US Supreme Court ruled: "...Congress intended to adopt the common law definition of conspiracy, which does not make the doing of any act other than the act of conspiring a condition of liability..." This ruling indicates that conspiracy, without any further action, can be criminal. Note that a "conspiracy", as a legal term in the US, doesn't require more than one person.
- See also: conspiracy theory
Etymology
It is generally accepted that conspire comes from the Latin roots con, with, and spirare, to breathe - so to conspire literally means 'to breathe together'.
Conspiracy is an album by a heavy metal group called King Diamond.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Conspiracy."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Plot in literature, theater, movies
According to Aristotle's Poetics, a plot in literature is "the arrangement of incidents" that (ideally) each follow plausibly from the other. The plot is like the chalk outline that guides the painter's brush. An example of the type of plot which follows these sorts of lines is the linear plot of development to be discerned within the pages of a bildungsroman novel.Aristotle notes that a string of unconnected speeches, no matter how well-executed, will not have as much emotional impact as a series of tightly connected speeches delivered by imperfect speakers.
The concept of plot and the associated concept of construction of plot, emplotment, has of course developed considerably since Aristotle made these insightful observations. The episodic narrative tradition which Aristotle indicates has systematically been subverted over the intervening years, to the extent that the concept of beginning, middle, end are merely regarded as a conventional device when no other is to hand.
This is particularly true in the cinematic tradition where the folding and reversal of episodic narrative is now a commonplace. Moreover, many writers and film directors, particularly those with a proclivity for the Modernist or other subsequent and derivative movements which emerged during or after the early 20th century seem more concerned that plot is an encumbrance to their artistic medium than an assistance.
See also: plot device
Plot in printing
A plot is a drawn graphicalical representation of data, such as the output of a plotter or the process of plotting data by hand. Plots are used in
- Mathematics: plotting the graph of a function
- Meteorology: weather plots - isobar, isotherm, isogon, isotach, isohume, isodrosotherm
- CPU design design: plots of integrated circuits can resemble die photos.
Other meanings of plot
- A small piece of planted ground, as for a garden. A cemetery provides plots for dead bodies.
- A plot is a planned conspiracy. E.g.,the Babington plot, July 20 Plot or The Passover Plot.
Extrenal Links
- Georges Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Plot."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PLOT | English | Porous Layer Open Tubular column | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PlotSynonyms: patch (n), plot of ground (n), secret plan (n), diagram (v), plat (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Phrase: carpe diem; (opportunity); nulla dies sine linea; nec mora nec requies; the plot thickens; No sooner said than done; (early); "veni vidi vici"; catch a weasel asleep; abends wird der Faule fleissig; dictum ac factum; schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im Alter; "the busy hum of men ". |
Agriculture | Field, meadow, garden; botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden; nursery; green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot, grassplat, lawn; park. (pleasure ground); parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard; vineyard, vinery; orangery; farm. (abode). |
Assemblage | Phrase: the plot thickens; acervatim; tibi seris tibi metis. |
Cunning | Art, artifice; device, machination; plot; (plan); maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery; (deception); ruse, ruse de guerre; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie; (untruth); juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie; net, trap. |
Eventuality | Phrase: that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles; you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring; the plot thickens; "breasts the blows of circumstance"; "so runs round of life from hour to hour" "sprinkled along the waste of years". |
Plain | Meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds; maidan, agostadero. |
Plan | Verb: plan,scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch; devise, invent; (imagine); set one's wits to work; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare; hatch, hatch a plot concoct; take steps, take measures. |
Plot; counter-plot, counter-mine; dig a mine; lay a train; intrigue; (cunning). | |
Intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination; subplot, underplot, counterplot. | |
Productiveness | Milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth; arrish, eddish, rowen; protoplasm; fertilization. |
Region | Arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, parcel, inclosure, close, field, court; enclave, reserve, preserve; street; (abode). |
Representation | Copy; drawing, sketch, drought, draft; plot, chart, figure, scheme. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Clear your mind must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas) I see it all now. It's a plot a plot (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen) No plot, no characters, very realistic (Videodrome; writing credit: David Cronenberg) I'm suggesting, Mr. President, there's a military plot to take over the government (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II) When a plot against the Emperor failedthe plotters were always given a chanceto let their families keep their fortunes (The Godfather: Part II; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola) | |
Lyrics | The plot would flop (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC) Better plot (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW) I've got to formulate a plot or I end up in jail or shot (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) The movie wasn’t so hot, it didn’t have much of a plot ("Wake Up Little Susie"; performing artist: The Everly Brothers) Told me he was in the gamblin spot and heard the intricate plot (Warning; performing artist: The Notorious B.I.G.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Pink Package Plot (1968) A Plot of Road (1968) The Plot of the Gold Medallion (1962) Plot and Counter Plot (1916) The Counterfeiter's Plot (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The first Odessey Protractor This instrument was used to plot intersecting ranges from two RAR stations Invented while Herman Odessey attached to DISCOVERER Variations of this instrument were used for plotting positions for over 60 years. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A schematic showing the plot layout for the transplant process. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Demosponges and coralline algae on a permanent photo plot. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Various depth-recording devices on right and navigation gear on left. In the plot room of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship EXPLORER. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Hydrographer Kim Sampadian of NOS Pacific Hydro Branch working on shoreline verification in RAINIER plot room. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Corn is planted and left for a wildlife food plot as part of a wildlife area in Jackson County, Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Wildlife area in Jackson County, Iowa, includes trees, shrubs, grasses, a pond and corn as a food plot. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | David Smith, Burned Area Response Team (BAER) sets out a calibration plot to calibrate aircraft for seeding rates. Credit: USDA. |
 | Mr. Wardell Sanders, president of the Sweet Potato Growers Ass'n, at an Alcorn State University deomostration plot near Mound Bayou, MS. Credit: USDA. |  | This rainfall simulator and test plot at Cottonwood, South Dakota, enabled technicians to measure water runoff rates and collect soil samples in a WEPP cropland field study. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Tim McCabe.. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
William Ewart Gladstone | No more cunning plot was ever devised against the intelligence, the freedom, the happiness, and the virtue of mankind, than Catholicism. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Therefore, as a man who has not thought and philosophised in vain, I seek no vengeance, plot no evil against thee |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He might even die fighting for the little plot among the Jimson weeds |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Another day Glumdalclitch left me on a smooth grass plot to divert myself while she walked at some distance with her governess |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Chinese government’s extension of farmland management contracts with farmers for 30 years has also been regarded as an incentive to encourage farmers to invest more to their land. At the same time, as farms come under more pressure to become profitable, they are more likely to plant double or triple crops annually on a plot of land, making quick, mechanized planting, seeding and harvesting more necessary. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | India | The crowd had gathered to protest efforts by majority Hindus to prevent them from using a plot of land close to a Hindu temple. (references) |
China | During the year, authorities and experts wrote many articles characterizing the rise of religious groups that failed to register and "cults" such as FLG as part of a plot by the West to undermine Chinese authority. (references) | |
Colombia | Santos fled the country in March 2000 after announcing that he was the target of a FARC guerrilla group plot to kill him. (references) | |
Economic History | Kuwait | Plot 14, Block 14, Bayan Plan 36302. The mailing address is P.O. Box 77, SAFAT, 13001 SAFAT, Kuwait; or Unit 69000 APO AE 09880. (references) |
Nigeria | Subsequently, the government arrested a number of additional persons for roles in the purported coup plot and tried the accused before a closed-door military tribunal in April in which Diya and eight others were sentenced to death. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | Where the Government has merely "approved" or "confirmed" a foreign contract, Kazakhstan's responsibility will be limited to performing administrative acts necessary to facilitate the subject investment activity (acts "concerning the issuance of a license, granting of a land plot, mining allotment, etc."). (references) | |
Human Rights | Congo | Some prisoners died as a result of torture, which was used following the alleged coup plot led by Masasu in 2000 and the January assassination of Laurent Kabila. (references) |
Armenia | In June six defendants were released by amnesty: Armen Gasparian and Avetik Minasian, two policemen, were charged with negligence; Misak Mkrtian, Sashik Khlechian, and Sargis Yetimian, charged with illegal possession of arms; and Armen Harutyunian, charged with failure to inform authorities about the terrorist plot. (references) | |
Ghana | On July 30, the Attorney General filed a motion to end the prosecution of a former army sergeant accused of involvement in an alleged 1994 plot to overthrow the Government. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Honduras | In August police used tear gas to dislodge 1,000 members of an Afro-Caribbean town from a plot of land that they claimed. (references) |
Minorities | Lebanon | Other foreigners may own a limited size plot of land but only after obtaining the approval of five different district offices. (references) |
Georgia | In December 2000, Basilists encircled a 5,000 square meter plot of land where a local Pentecostal congregation planned to build a multi-purpose building. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | USAID is assisting Ukraine in restructuring this priority sector through an agricultural strategy that focuses countrywide on: 1) financing and developing private sector sources of inputs to agriculture, and private processing of agricultural products; 2) privatizing agricultural land with special emphasis on restructuring collective agricultural enterprises into private entities and the issuance of land titles and developing a land market; 3) reducing the environmental impact of agricultural chemicals; 4) private farm and household plot development; and 5) implementing new agriculture policies to facilitate a private-sector based market economy. (references) |
Argentina | Registration costs $1,000. Leasing is paid monthly and the amount is $1,000 for each plot of 15mx50m. (references) | |
Women | Equatorial Guinea | According to the law, women have the right to buy and sell property and goods; however, in practice the male-dominated society permits few women access to sufficient funds to engage in more than petty trading or to purchase real property beyond a garden plot or modest home. (references) |
Worker Rights | Ecuador | In rural areas, young children often must leave school at an early age to help out on the family's plot of land. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say -- a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot, but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur, albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself, and "drags at each remove a lengthening chain" of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels, for great writers have "laid waste their powers" to write them, but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is "The Thousand and One Nights." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Now and in the future, Americans will live as free people, not in fear, and never at the mercy of any foreign plot or power. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Plot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.80% of the time. "Plot" is used about 1,843 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.8% | 1,581 | 5,228 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.62% | 159 | 24,860 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.09% | 94 | 33,845 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.43% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,843 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "plot": air plot ♦ be accomplice in a plot ♦ Bode plot ♦ building plot ♦ dot plot ♦ experimental plot ♦ Garden plot ♦ grass plot ♦ Ground plot ♦ gunpowder plot ♦ hatch a plot ♦ have a hand in a plot ♦ knit up a plot ♦ lay a plot ♦ linear plot ♦ linear sample plot ♦ master plot ♦ missing plot technique ♦ plot a course of action for smb. ♦ plot against ♦ plot extractor ♦ plot line ♦ plot mischief ♦ plot of arable land ♦ plot of ground ♦ plot of land ♦ plot out ♦ plot to do ♦ polar plot ♦ property plot ♦ radar plot ♦ seed plot ♦ sortie plot ♦ strip plot ♦ the plot thickens ♦ transect plot ♦ trial plot. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "plot": plot-advancing, plot-dig-file, plot-free, plot-holders, plot-interest, plot-line, plot-lines, plot-paradigms, Plot-proof, plot-sequence, plot-sequences, plot-stealer, plot-style. | |
Ending with "plot": sub-plot. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
secret plot | 507 | bode plot | 38 |
secret plot deep | 329 | sigma plot | 37 |
plot | 239 | deep manga plot secret | 34 |
secret plot manga | 148 | plot story | 34 |
murder philadelphia plot teen | 135 | 3 episode plot star war | 32 |
deer food plot | 90 | plan plot | 32 |
food plot | 85 | harry plot potter summary | 32 |
harry order phoenix plot potter | 76 | free manga plot secret | 30 |
hentai plot secret | 73 | box plot | 30 |
matrix plot reloaded | 65 | map plot | 30 |
harry plot potter | 62 | matrix plot | 28 |
order phoenix plot | 54 | plot summary | 28 |
matrix plot revolution | 51 | wildlife food plot | 27 |
movie plot | 51 | harry phoenix plot potter | 25 |
leaf plot stem | 49 | building plot | 24 |
comic plot secret | 45 | freddy jason plot vs | 23 |
cemetery plot | 42 | line plot | 20 |
box and whisker plot | 41 | gunpowder plot | 19 |
scatter plot | 40 | 5 harry plot potter | 19 |
3 plot terminator | 39 | free plot secret | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "plot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thur komplote, subjekt (subject, topic), ngastër (location, lot, Nick, parcel, patch), ndaj në gastra, komplotoj (cabal, compass, connive, conspire, contrive, practise), komplot (cabal, confederacy, confederate, conspiracy), intrigoj (intrigue, machinate), intrigë (cabal, intrigue, jiggery pokery, machination, mine), hedh në diagramë, fabul (fable, story), copë toke (patch), bëj hartën e. (various references) | |
Arabic | تعرض (exposure, incur), دسيسة (intrigue, machination, setup), شاؤك في مؤامرة, خريطة الأرض, عين موقعا لشىء ما, سير الأحداث في الرواية, دبر مكيدة (machinate, scheme), تآمر ضد, فرز الأرض, حبكة الرواية, قطعة أرض (area, land, lot, parcel, piece, piece of land, shred, spit, tract), مؤامرة (collusion, confederacy, conspiracy, huddle, machination), مغامرة غرامية, مكيدة (artifice, intrigue, machination, scheme, trick), كاد (assiduous, diligent, intrigue, laborious, persevering, scheme, sedulous), تآمر (collude, connive, conspiracy, conspire, intrigue, subversion, trinket). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | конспирация (conspiracy), измислям фабула на, интрига (cabal, intrigue, knot, machination, maneuver, manoeuvre, scheme), план (blueprint, conception, dart, diagram, draft, draught, game, idea, layout, map, plan, plat, program, programme, project, proposal, schedule, schema, scheme, set up, skeleton, sketch, view), парцел (lot, parcel, plat), парче земя (allotment, parcel), правя диаграма (diagrammatize), правя интриги, заговор (cabal, confederacy, confederation, conspiracy, scheme), заговорнича (cabal, confederate, connive, connote, conspire, scheme), нахвърлям фабула на, диаграма (chart, curve, diagram, graph, pattern, plan, schema, scheme, sheet, tabulation), график (curve, graph), сюжет (story, subject), фабула (action, fable, intrigue), чертая (construct, delineate, describe, draw, figure, line, plan, protract), чертая крива, разделям (break up, come between, disconnect, dispart, dissever, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, lot, parcel out, part, partition, portion, segment, segregate, separate, sever, share, slice, split, split up, sunder, uncouple, unjoin, win away), разпределям (admeasure, allocate, allot, apportion, assort, deal out, dispense, distribute, give out, map out, measure, parcel out, part, serve out, share out, slice, sort), скицирам (adumbrate, delineate, line, outline, plan, rough-hew, sketch, trace, vignette), скица (contour, cure, delineation, design, diagram, draft, draught, freehand drawing, object, outline, plan, plat, schema, scheme, scream, skeleton, sketch, study, vignette), участък (claim, division, section, sector, unit), съзаклятие, съзаклятнича (cabal), съставям (compile, compose, compound, design, draw, draw up, form, frame, indite, make, make out, strike), отбелязвам (commemorate, make, make notes, margin, notch up, note, notice, observe, put on, record, register, remark, set down, signalize, tag, write down). (various references) | |
Chinese | 陰謀 (conspiracy), 策略 (tactics), 策劃 (bring about, engineer, scheme), 情節 , 剧情. (various references) | |
Czech | pleticha (intrigue), parcela (allotment, parcel, plat), zápletka (node, story), zámìr (contemplation, design, entente, intention, object, purpose), strojit úklady (scheme), spiknutí (conspiracy), osnovat spiknutí, nakreslit plán, dìj (action), úklad. (various references) | |
Danish | prøveflade (experimental unit), position (attitude (of strata), balance, location, position), plan (design, diagram, plan, plane), parcel (parcel, parcel of land, patch of land, plot of land), udstykningsparcel (parcel of land, patch of land, plot of land), mark (field, mark), jordstykke (block, break, field, parcel of land, patch of land, plot of land, ridge), jordlod (block, break, field, parcel of land, patch of land, plot of land), grund (bottom, foundation, ground), forsøgsenhed (experimental unit). (various references) | |
Dutch | machinatie, intrige. (various references) | |
Esperanto | rakontintrigo, komploto (conspiracy), intrigo. (various references) | |
Farsi | موقعیت (Berth, Case, Lie, Location, Occasion, Pertinence, Position, Situation), موضوع اصلی , نقطه (Ace, Dot, Iota, Jot, Mark, Part, Point, Prick, Speck, Speckle, Splotch, Spot, Stop), نقشه کشیدن (Compass, Engine, Map, Plan, Plat, Project), نقشه (Chart, Design, Map, Model, Plan, Plat, Program, Project, Scheme), قطعه (Bloc, Block, Dab, Fragment, Goblet, Internode, Lot, Mainland, Nugget, Pane, Panel, Passage, Piece, Plank, Plat, Section, Segment, Slab, Smidgen, Snip, Tract), توطله چیدن (Collogue, Intrigue, Scheme), توطله (Conspiracy, Shift, Underplot), طرح ریزی کردن (Contrive, Outline, Project), طرح (Cast, Diagram, Draft, Knack, Layout, Machination, Model, Module, Outline, Pattern, Plan, Plat, Project, Projection, Proposal, Schema, Scheme, Skeleton, Sketch), دسیسه (Conspiracy, Machination). (various references) | |
Finnish | salahanke (frame-up). (various references) | |
French | parcelle (plot of land), intrigue, conspiration. (various references) | |
German | Verschwörung (conspiracy), Handlung (accomplishment, achievement, act, action, activeness, deed, shop, story), aufzeichnen (chart, draw, graph, keep a record, log, make a note, note, record, sketch, to lay down, to record, write down), Parzelle (lot, parcel, parcel of land), konspiration (conspiracy), Komplott (cabal, conspiracy, scheme), Grundstück (estate, plot of land, premises, property, realty, site), Entwurf (bill, blueprint, concept, design, diagram, draft, drawing, framework, outline, plan, plane, project, scheme, sketch, specification). (various references) | |
Greek | συνωμοτώ (complot, connive, conspire), πλοκή (texture, twist). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזמ" (conspiracy, intrigue, machination, scheme), לתוות (design, lay out, outline, sketch), לתכ ן (contrive, design, devise, engineer, map, plan, project, scheme, style, think up), לקשור (bind, bond, connect, hitch, knit, relate, tether, tie, truss), לזמום (intrigue, scheme, think up), לזו" (act wickedly, scheme, think evil), לזום (devise, scheme), לחבל תחבולות (conceive, scheme), ל"ת כל (conspire, plan evil, scheme), עליל" (act, action, deed, exploit, frame up, story), זמם (intrigue, machination, perjury, scheme), חלקת א"מ" (parcel, piece of land), חלק" (lot, piece of land, portion). (various references) | |
Hungarian | parcella (lot, parcel, patch, section of land, subdivision), összeesküvés (cabal, confederacy, conspiracy, conspiring, plotting), tervrajz (blueprint, delineation, design, map, plan, project, scheme, survey), terv (adumbration, brainchild, cadre, calculation, conception, contrivance, design, device, draft plan, layout, plan, pretence, project, purpose, scheme, slant), telek (allotment, building plot, building site, Croft, ground, lot, parcel, realty, site, stance), tartalom (amount, capacity, content, intension, matter, purport, subject-matter, substance), földdarab, cselszövés (intrigue, plotting, scheme, scheming), cselekmény (achievement, act, action, public wrong). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sekongkol (cabal, intrigue, scheme), isi cerita, bidang tanah, alur (channel, furrow, gully, slot). (various references) | |
Italian | complotto (cabal, conspiracy, frame up, machination), parcella (fee), appezzamento (lot, parcel). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 謀略 (scheme, stratagem, strategy, trick), 魂胆 (intrigue, scheme, soul). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すじたて, すじがき (outline, synopsis), すじ (line, muscle, plan, sinew, string, stripe), プロット , しくみ (arrangement, construction, contrivance, plan, structure), ぼうぎ (conference, conspiracy), ぼうりゃく (scheme, stratagem, strategy, trick), ぼうけい (affiliate, collateral family, conspiracy, one's deceased elder brother, subsidiary line), "うそう (conception, confused fighting, dispute, frost, good running, grand, high and dry ground, high priest, hurrying, idea, imperial ancestors, imposing, magnificent, muzzle loading gun, ore bed, plan, public funeral, red algae, resistance, rhodophyceae, sailing, school funeral, sending back or sending later, spice used for cooking, upper, virtuous priest), ""た" (intrigue, scheme, secret design, soul, ulterior motive), あくけい (evil scheme, trick), あっけい (evil scheme, trick), けいりゃく (administration, plan, rule, stratagem, trick), じけ" (affair, case, event, incident, scandal, trouble). (various references) | |
Korean | 작의. (various references) | |
Manx | reeaney (plotting), preaban (circus, demesne, fair, fairground, hippodrome, patch, piece of land), ploht, graaf (chart, graph). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kòmplòt (conspiracy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trama (cabal, conspiracy, intrigue, machination, net, network, web, woof). (various references) | |
Romanian | plan secret, urzi (brew, cause, devise, hatch, warp), subiect (cause, copy, fable, material, patient, reason, record, subject, theme, topic), schiţã (adumbration, contour, delineation, design, draft, draught, drawing, line, outline, plan, shorter, sketch, sketching), reprezenta grafic (figure), inventa (coin, concoct, contrive, devise, discover, fable, fabricate, feign, find, find oneself, frame, fudge, invent, make up, manufacture, originate, shape), intrigã (action, cabal, designing, intrigue, machination, noise, scheme, scheming), diviza (carve up, divide, graduate, parcel out, partition, plot out, separate, share, split), bucatã micã de pãmânt. (various references) | |
Russian | сюжет (story), участок земли (allotment, grounds, lot, parcel, plat), чертеж (design, draft, draught, drawing, plan, scheme), чертить (draft, draught, draw), фабула (storyline), трасса (course, route, routing, track, trail), вычерчивать график, вычерчивать, наносить (deal, inflict), план (blue print, blueprint, design, device, diagram, draft, layout, map, pipe dream, plan, program, programme, project, scheme, syllabus). (various references) | |
Scottish | pliad (a plot of ground), lunndan (a smooth grassy plot), cliatan (a level plot of ground: *cliath-t-an). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | planirati (engineer, mastermind, plan, schedule), zemljište (field, lair, land, lot, terrain), zemljišna parcela, zavera (conspiracy, underplot), zaplet (clash, ravel, tangle), urota, spletkariti (intrigue, machinate, scheme), spletka (concoction, intrigue, machination), nanositi u kartu, nacrt (plan, scheme, tracing), kovati zaveru (conspire), grafički podaci, šurovati (lay up heads together). (various references) | |
Spanish | parcela (allotment, parcel, particle, patch, piece, piece of ground, plat), complot (confederacy). (various references) | |
Swedish | komplott (conspiracy, frame up, scheme), intrig (cabal, intrigue, machination, scheme), tomt (building plot, garden, ground, lot, site), konspirera (connive, conspire). (various references) | |
Turkish | plan (arrangement, blue print, chart, conspectus, design, idea, intention, layout, map, plan, program, programme, project, proposal, proposition, scheme, set up), plânını çıkarmak, plân üzerinde işaretlemek, parsellemek (divide up into plots, parcel, parcel out), parsel (parcel, parcel of land, plat), olaylar dizisi (catalog, catalogue, chain of events, consecution, vista), arsa (holding, land, lot, patch, plat), entrika (cabal, contrivance, frame up, intrigue, machination, machinations, ruse, scheme, wheeler-dealing), fesat (agitator, corruption, depravity, intrigue, jaundiced, low-minded, malice, mischief, poisonous, sinister), grafiğini çizmek, hedef noktası, komplo (cabal, complot, confederacy, conspiracy, design, frame up, scheme, skulduggery), kroki üzerinde göstermek, arazi parçası (a piece of land, plat), kumpas kurmak (encompass, machinate), yerini belirlemek (localize, pinpoint, place, position, situate), radarda görünen nokta, suikâst (assassination, complot, conspiracy, conspiratorial, foul play), tema (leitmotif, leitmotiv, subject, theme, topic), kumpas (composing stick, have, stick). (various references) | |
Turkmen | dildьwюьk (conspiracy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сюжет (chapter, intrigue, subject), складати план (design, draught), змова (cahoot), замишляти змову, план (blueprint, chart, dart, delineation, design, device, idea, layout, map, outline, plan, program, programme, project, proposal, proposition, scheme). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | miếng đất tình tiết, mảnh đất nhỏ, mưu đ" (intrigue, practice, scheme), biểu đ" (chart, diagram), đ" thị, đ" án âm mưu. (various references) | |
Welsh | cynllwyn (ambush, beset, conspire), bradfwriadu (conspire), brad (betrayal, treason). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | aag. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | coniuratio, coniuratione, coniuro, consenserat, consenserint, consenserunt, consensisse, consensit, consensu, consensurum, consensus, consenti, consentias, consentiat, consentiebam, consentiebas, consentiens, consentientes, consentio, consentit, consentitis, consentiunt, conspirare, insidiae, insidiarum, insidias, insidiis, machinans, machinantur, machinatur. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | complot. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 1, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | OutoV men oun ekthsato cwrion ek tou misqou thV adikiaV kai prhnhV genomenoV elakhsen mesoV kai execuqh panta ta splagcna autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et hic quidem possedit agrum de mercede iniquitatis et suspensus crepuit medius et diffusa sunt omnia viscera eius |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | La, þes mann eode mid earnunge for his yfelnesse and buhte him æcer. Þær feol he to grunde and his lichama tobærst and þær gespillode eall his ropas. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And this Judas hadde a feeld of the hire of wickidnesse, and he was hangid, and `to-brast the myddil, and alle hise entrailes weren sched abrood. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And the same hath now possessed a plot of grounde with the rewarde of iniquite and when he was hanged brast a sondre in ye myddes and all his bowels gusshed oute. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | (Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
