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Explore vs. Plot — What's the Difference?

Explore vs. Plot — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Explore and Plot

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Explore

To investigate systematically; examine
Explore every possibility.

Plot

A plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful
There's a plot to overthrow the government

Explore

To search into or travel in for the purpose of discovery
Exploring outer space.

Plot

The main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence
The plot consists almost entirely of a man and woman falling in love
He outlined his idea for a movie plot

Explore

(Medicine) To examine (a body cavity or interior part) for diagnostic purposes, especially by surgery.
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Plot

A small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening
A vegetable plot

Explore

To make a careful examination or search
Scientists who have been known to explore in this region of the earth.

Plot

A graph showing the relation between two variables.

Explore

To seek for something or after someone.

Plot

Secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action)
The two men are serving sentences for plotting a bomb campaign
Brother plots against brother

Explore

(transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.

Plot

Devise the sequence of events in (a play, novel, film, or similar work)
In a crime story you have to plot carefully to achieve the surprise at the end
She would plot a chapter as she drove

Explore

(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.

Plot

Mark (a route or position) on a chart
He started to plot lines of ancient sites

Explore

To examine diagnostically.

Plot

A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose
A garden plot.

Explore

(transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.
It is normal for a boy of this age to be exploring his sexuality.

Plot

A measured area of land; a lot.

Explore

(intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
He was too busy exploring to notice his son needed his guidance.

Plot

A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.

Explore

(intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one.

Plot

See graph1.

Explore

(transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.

Plot

The pattern or sequence of interrelated events in a work of fiction, as a novel or film.

Explore

(colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.

Plot

A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.

Explore

To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.
Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs.

Plot

To represent graphically, as on a chart
Plot a ship's course.

Explore

To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science.

Plot

To locate (points or other figures) on a graph by means of coordinates.

Explore

Inquire into

Plot

To draw (a curve) connecting points on a graph.

Explore

Travel to or penetrate into;
Explore unknown territory in biology

Plot

To write or develop the plot of
"I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read" (James Baldwin).

Explore

Examine minutely

Plot

To form a plot for; prearrange secretly or deviously
Plot an assassination.

Explore

Examine (organs etc.) for diagnostic purposes

Plot

To form or take part in a plot; scheme
Were plotting for months before the attack.

Plot

To write or develop the plot for a work of fiction
A good mystery writer must plot well.

Plot

(narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

Plot

An area or land used for building on or planting on.

Plot

A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

Plot

A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.

Plot

Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

Plot

Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

Plot

A plan; a purpose.

Plot

Attractive physical attributes of characters involved in a story, originating from ironic juxtaposition with the original meaning (course of the story).
I'm not sure what's happening in that show, I mainly watch it for the plot.

Plot

To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
They had plotted a robbery.
They were plotting against the king.

Plot

(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
They plotted the number of edits per day.

Plot

(transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
Every five minutes they plotted their position.

Plot

A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.

Plot

A plantation laid out.

Plot

A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.

Plot

Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.
I have overheard a plot of death.
O, think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots and their last fatal periods!

Plot

A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.

Plot

Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

Plot

A plan; a purpose.

Plot

In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.

Plot

To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.

Plot

To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
The wicked plotteth against the just.

Plot

To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
The prince did plot to be secretly gone.

Plot

To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

Plot

A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal);
They concocted a plot to discredit the governor
I saw through his little game from the start

Plot

A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation;
A bean plot
A cabbage patch
A briar patch

Plot

The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.;
The characters were well drawn but the plot was banal

Plot

A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object

Plot

Plan secretly, usually something illegal;
They plotted the overthrow fo the government

Plot

Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows how things work or how they are constructed

Plot

Make a plat of;
Plat the town

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