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Definition: UNDERPLOT |
UNDERPLOTNoun1. A clandestine scheme; a trick. 2. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. |
Date "UNDERPLOT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Plan | Intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination; subplot, underplot, counterplot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| 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 tramóia (chicane, graft, subterfuge, trick, trickery), maquinação (cabal, intrigue, machination), episódio (chapter, episode, episodic, incident, page). (various references) тайный замысел, побочная интрига (underaction). (various references) zavera (conspiracy, plot), tajni plan, sporedni zaplet. (various references) ikinci derecede kalan olaylar dizisi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "UNDERPLOT": underplots. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 4E 44 45 52 50 4C 4F 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. . .-. .--. .-.. --- - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 01010000 01001100 01001111 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U N D E R P L O T |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)554838395250464954 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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