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UNDERPLOT

Definition: UNDERPLOT

UNDERPLOT

Noun

1. A clandestine scheme; a trick.

2. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNDERPLOT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references)


Synonyms within Context: UNDERPLOT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Plan

Intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination; subplot, underplot, counterplot.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: UNDERPLOT

Language Translations for "UNDERPLOT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vijë jo kryesore, shestim i fshehtë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الحبكة المسرحية, ‏الحبكة الروائية. (various references)

   

Czech

  

vedlejší zápletka. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

یک سلسله حوادث تبعی وعرفی نمایش , توطله (Conspiracy, Plot, Shift), دوزوکلک (Cabal), دسیسه محرمانه , داستان فرعی (Episode). (various references)

   

German

  

Nebenhandlung (subplot). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mellékcselekmény (side-show, subplot). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

伏線 (foreshadowing, precautionary measures, preparation), アンザス条約 (Ancien Regime, andante, andante cantabile, andantino, angelus, antagonism, anthology, anti-, anti-establishment, antique, antique fashion, ANZUS Treaty, disliked, submarine pitch, under, under par, undercoat, underground, underhand throw, underline, underpass, underproof, underscore, undershirt, underskill, underwear, undulation, United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia, UNTAC, untied loan, untouchable). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふくせ" (double track, foreshadowing, precautionary measures, preparation), アンダープロット . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erplotunday

   

Portuguese

  

tramóia (chicane, graft, subterfuge, trick, trickery), maquinação (cabal, intrigue, machination), episódio (chapter, episode, episodic, incident, page). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тайный замысел, побочная интрига (underaction). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zavera (conspiracy, plot), tajni plan, sporedni zaplet. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ikinci derecede kalan olaylar dizisi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: UNDERPLOT

Derivations

Words beginning with "UNDERPLOT": underplots. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: UNDERPLOT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-l-n-o-p-r-t-u"

-1 letter: roundlet.

-2 letters: droplet, opulent, pleuron, plunder, portend, poulter, pounder, protend, prudent, roundel, rundlet, trouped, trundle, unroped, uptrend.

-3 letters: deport, detour, enduro, lepton, louden, louder, louped, loupen, loured, louted, lunted, nodule, nurled, penult, petrol, pluton, polder, ponder, ported, poured, pouted, pouter, pruned, punted, punter, purled, redout, redtop, replot, retold, rodent, rondel, rotund, rouped, roupet.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-l-n-o-p-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: underplots.

 

+3 letters: multipronged.

 

+4 letters: reduplication.

 

+5 letters: counterplotted, polyneuritides, predevaluation, reduplications, underpopulated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: UNDERPLOT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 4E 44 45 52 50 4C 4F 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -..    .    .-.    .--.    .-..    ---    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 01010000 01001100 01001111 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#80 &#76 &#79 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0044 0045 0052 0050 004C 004F 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

554838395250464954

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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