plot
US: /ˈpɫɑt/
UK: /plˈɒt/
UK: /plˈɒt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
plot /plɔt/
- danh từ
- mảnh đất nhỏ, miếng đất
- a plot of vegetable: miếng đất trồng rau
- tình tiết, cốt truyện (kịch, tiểu thuyết...)
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) sơ đồ, đồ thị, biểu đồ, đồ án
- âm mưu, mưu đồ
- to hatch a plot: ngấm ngầm bày mưu lập kế
- mảnh đất nhỏ, miếng đất
- ngoại động từ
- vẽ sơ đồ, vẽ đồ thị, vẽ biểu đồ, dựng đồ án (một công trình xây dựng...)
- đánh dấu trên cơ sở, đánh dấu trên đồ án
- âm mưu, mưu tính, bày mưu
- to plot a crime: âm mưu tội ác
- nội động từ
- âm mưu, bày mưu
- to plot against someone: âm mưu ám hại ai (chống lại ai)
- to plot out
- chia thành mảnh nh
- âm mưu, bày mưu
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
1 [C, U] the series of events which form the story of a novel, play, film/movie, etc: a conventional plot about love and marriage + The book is well organized in terms of plot.
2 [C] ~ (to do sth) a secret plan made by a group of people to do sth wrong or illegal: a murder plot + The rebels hatched a plot to overthrow the government. + Police uncovered a plot against the president.
3 [C] a small piece of land that is used or intended for a special purpose: She bought a small plot of land to build a house on. + a vegetable plot
Idioms: lose the plot (BrE, informal) to lose your ability to understand or deal with what is happening
the plot thickens used to say that a situation is becoming more complicated and difficult to understand
+ verb (-tt-)
1 ~ (with sb) (against sb) to make a secret plan to harm sb, especially a government or its leader: [V] They were accused of plotting against the state. + [VN] Military officers were suspected of plotting a coup. + She spends every waking hour plotting her revenge. + [V to inf] They were plotting to overthrow the government.
2 [VN] ~ sth (on sth) to mark sth on a map, for example the position or course of sth: The earthquake centres had been plotted on a world map. + He plotted a new route across the Atlantic.
3 [VN] ~ sth (on sth) to make a diagram or CHART from some information: We carefully plotted each patient's response to the drug on a chart.
4 [VN] ~ sth (on sth) to mark points on a GRAPH and draw a line or curve connecting them: First, plot the temperature curve on the graph.
5 [VN] to write the plot of a novel, play, etc: a tightly-plotted thriller
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 scheme, plan, intrigue, machination, cabal; conspiracy:
The plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament was uncovered at a late stage
2 story (line), chain of events, theme, outline, scenario, thread, skeleton:
Most operas have weak plots, but the music can be sublime.
v.
3 scheme, plan, intrigue, machinate, cabal, collude, conspire, hatch, devise, design, arrange, organize, concoct, dream up, conceive, Colloq cook up:
Martin's wife had been plotting to murder him since their wedding night
4 draw, plan, diagram, lay down, outline, calculate, compute, figure, chart, map (out), find, determine, depict, show:
The navigator plotted our position as being in the Strait of Malacca.
n.
lot, plat, patch or parcel (of land), tract, acreage, area, Brit allotment:
I have a small plot by the canal which is ideal for growing potatoes.
Collocation dictionary
1 plan
ADJ.
fiendish | alleged | assassination, blackmail, coup, death, murder
VERB + PLOT
hatch | uncover | foil
PREP.
~ against
They had taken part in a Jacobite plot against William III.
| ~ by
The police claim to have uncovered a plot by terrorists to assassinate the president.
2 events in a story
ADJ.
simple | complex, complicated
VERB + PLOT
construct
She has constructed a complicated plot, with a large cast of characters.
PLOT + VERB
develop, unfold
PLOT + NOUN
development
PHRASES
a twist in/of the plot
There are several unexpected twists in the plot before the murderer is revealed.
3 piece of land
ADJ.
garden, vegetable | farm, subsistence | building | burial | small | 10-acre, 12-acre, etc.
They own a five-acre plot of land.
| family, private
VERB + PLOT
work
PLOT + VERB
measure sth
The plots each measure 10 metres by 20 metres.
PHRASES
a plot of land
Concise English dictionary
plotted|plotting|plotsplɑt /plɒt
noun
+a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
+a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
+the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
+a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
verb
+plan secretly, usually something illegal
+make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows how things work or how they are constructed
+make a plat of
