Plot vs. Intrigue — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Plot and Intrigue
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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
Intrigue
A secret or underhand scheme; a plot.
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
Intrigue
The practice of or involvement in such schemes
Seized the throne by intrigue.
Plot
A small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening
A vegetable plot
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Intrigue
A clandestine love affair.
Plot
A graph showing the relation between two variables.
Intrigue
To arouse the interest or curiosity of
Hibernation has long intrigued biologists.
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
Intrigue
To effect or cause to be accepted or rejected by secret scheming or plotting
"Mr. Clay ... was intrigued out of the Presidential nomination" (Parke Godwin).
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
Intrigue
To engage in secret or underhand schemes; plot.
Plot
Mark (a route or position) on a chart
He started to plot lines of ancient sites
Intrigue
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
Plot
A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose
A garden plot.
Intrigue
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Plot
A measured area of land; a lot.
Intrigue
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
Plot
A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
Intrigue
(intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
Plot
See graph1.
Intrigue
(transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
Plot
The pattern or sequence of interrelated events in a work of fiction, as a novel or film.
Intrigue
(intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
Plot
A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.
Intrigue
(transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
Plot
To represent graphically, as on a chart
Plot a ship's course.
Intrigue
To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
Plot
To locate (points or other figures) on a graph by means of coordinates.
Intrigue
To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
Plot
To draw (a curve) connecting points on a graph.
Intrigue
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
How doth it [sin] perplex and intrique the whole course of your lives!
Plot
To write or develop the plot of
"I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read" (James Baldwin).
Intrigue
Intricacy; complication.
Plot
To form a plot for; prearrange secretly or deviously
Plot an assassination.
Intrigue
A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
Busy meddlers with intrigues of state.
Plot
To form or take part in a plot; scheme
Were plotting for months before the attack.
Intrigue
The plot of a play or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
Plot
To write or develop the plot for a work of fiction
A good mystery writer must plot well.
Intrigue
A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
The hero of a comedy is represented victorious in all his intrigues.
Plot
(narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
Intrigue
A crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
Plot
An area or land used for building on or planting on.
Intrigue
A clandestine love affair
Plot
A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
Intrigue
Cause to be interested or curious
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.
Intrigue
Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
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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