Plot vs. Layout — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Plot and Layout
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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
Layout
The way in which the parts of something are arranged or laid out
The road layout
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
Layout
The act or an instance of laying out.
Plot
A small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening
A vegetable plot
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Layout
An arrangement or plan, especially the schematic arrangement of parts or areas
The layout of a factory.
The layout of a printed circuit.
Plot
A graph showing the relation between two variables.
Layout
The art or process of arranging printed or graphic matter on a page.
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
Layout
The overall design of a page, spread, or book, including elements such as page and type size, typeface, and the arrangement of titles and page numbers.
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
Layout
A page or set of pages marked to indicate this design.
Plot
Mark (a route or position) on a chart
He started to plot lines of ancient sites
Layout
(Sports) The straight position, as in diving.
Plot
A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose
A garden plot.
Layout
(Informal) An establishment or property, especially a large residence or estate
"[Her] show horses ... were kept on the couple's one-and-a-half acre Malibu layout" (People).
Plot
A measured area of land; a lot.
Layout
A structured arrangement of items within certain limits.
Plot
A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
Layout
A plan for such arrangement.
Plot
See graph1.
Layout
The act of laying out something.
Plot
The pattern or sequence of interrelated events in a work of fiction, as a novel or film.
Layout
(publishing) The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints.
Plot
A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.
Layout
(engineering) A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
Plot
To represent graphically, as on a chart
Plot a ship's course.
Layout
(electronics) A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.
Plot
To locate (points or other figures) on a graph by means of coordinates.
Layout
A plan or design of something that is laid out
Plot
To draw (a curve) connecting points on a graph.
Layout
The act of laying out (as by making plans for something)
Plot
To write or develop the plot of
"I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read" (James Baldwin).
Plot
To form a plot for; prearrange secretly or deviously
Plot an assassination.
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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