Mechanism vs. Scheme — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Mechanism and Scheme
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Mechanism
A machine or mechanical appliance.
Scheme
A systematic plan of action
"Did you ever carry out your scheme of writing a series of sonnets embodying all the great epochs of art?" (Edith Wharton).
Mechanism
The arrangement of connected parts in a machine.
Scheme
A secret or devious plan; a plot
A scheme to defraud investors.
Mechanism
A system of parts that operate or interact like those of a machine
The mechanism of the solar system.
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Scheme
An orderly plan or arrangement of related parts
An irrigation scheme with dams, reservoirs, and channels.
Mechanism
An instrument or a process, physical or mental, by which something is done or comes into being
"The mechanism of oral learning is largely that of continuous repetition" (T.G.E. Powell).
Scheme
A chart, diagram, or outline of a system or object.
Mechanism
A habitual manner of acting to achieve an end.
Scheme
To contrive a plan or scheme for; plot
Scheming their revenge.
Mechanism
(Psychology) A usually unconscious mental and emotional pattern that shapes behavior in a given situation or environment
A defense mechanism.
Scheme
To make plans, especially secret or devious ones.
Mechanism
The sequence of steps in a chemical reaction.
Scheme
An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
Mechanism
(Philosophy) The doctrine that all natural phenomena are explicable by material causes and mechanical principles.
Scheme
(astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
Mechanism
(within a machine or machinery) Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
Scheme
A systematic plan of future action.
Mechanism
Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
Scheme
A plot or secret, devious plan.
Mechanism
A group of entities, such as objects, that interact together.
Scheme
An orderly combination of related parts.
Mechanism
A mental, physical, or chemical process.
Scheme
A chart or diagram of a system or object.
Mechanism
Any process of, or system designed to manage useful energy conversion.
Scheme
(mathematics) A mathematical structure that enlarges the notion of algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring (e.g. Fermat curves over the integers).
Mechanism
(philosophy) The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
Scheme
A council housing estate.
Mechanism
The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism of a seed pod.
Scheme
(internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as
http: or news:.Mechanism
The series of causal relations that operate to produce an effect in any system; as, the mechanism of a chemical reaction.
Scheme
A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
Mechanism
Mechanical operation or action.
He acknowledges nothing besides matter and motion; so that all must be performed either by mechanism or accident.
Scheme
(intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.
Mechanism
An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements.
Scheme
(transitive) To plan; to contrive.
Mechanism
The atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction;
He determined unique mechanisms for the photochemical reactions
Scheme
A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
The appearance and outward scheme of things.
Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity.
Arguments . . . sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy.
The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.
Mechanism
The technical aspects of doing something;
A mechanism of social control
Mechanisms of communication
The mechanics of prose style
Scheme
A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Mechanism
A natural object resembling a machine in structure or function;
The mechanism of the ear
The mechanism of infection
Scheme
Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.
To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France.
Mechanism
(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
Scheme
A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
A blue silk case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity.
He forms the well-concerted scheme of mischief;'T is fixed, 't is done, and both are doomed to death.
Artists and plans relieved my solemn hours;I founded palaces, and planted bowers.
Mechanism
Device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function
Scheme
To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction.
Scheme
To form a scheme or schemes.
Scheme
An elaborate and systematic plan of action
Scheme
A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
Scheme
A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole;
A vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going
Scheme
An internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
Scheme
A schematic or preliminary plan
Scheme
Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
Scheme
Devise a system or form a scheme for
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