plot

n

1. secret plan, scheme, intrigue, counterplot, machination; procedure, plan of action, tactics, maneuvers, stratagems, strategy; complot, conspiracy, confederacy, cabal.

2. main story, story line, action, intrigue; chain of events or incidents; plan, scheme, design, layout, blueprint; outline, skeleton.

v

3. plan secretly, conspire, complot, cabal, scheme, intrigue, counterplot, make plans, draw up a plan; premeditate, preplan, prearrange, set up, organize, mastermind, machinate; devise, design, develop, make, form, formulate, fashion, shape, mold; fabricate, construct, build, erect; contrive, bring about, concoct, brew, frame, compose, hatch; dream up, think up, come up with, conceive, imagine, envision, envisage, visualize, see in one's mind's eye.

4. mark on a map, chart, lay out, mark out a course, map out or shape a course.

5. map, graph, diagram, draw to scale; blueprint, outline, draw in, block in; depict, represent, picture.