Plot vs. Lore — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Plot and Lore
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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
Lore
Accumulated knowledge or beliefs held by a group about a subject, especially when passed from generation to generation by oral tradition.
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
Lore
The space between the eye and the base of the bill of a bird or between the eye and nostril of a snake.
Plot
A small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening
A vegetable plot
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Lore
All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
The lore of the Ancient Egyptians
Plot
A graph showing the relation between two variables.
Lore
The backstory created around a fictional universe.
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
Lore
(obsolete) Workmanship.
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
Lore
(anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
Plot
Mark (a route or position) on a chart
He started to plot lines of ancient sites
Lore
(anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
Plot
A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose
A garden plot.
Lore
The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.
Plot
A measured area of land; a lot.
Lore
That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore.
His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore.
Plot
A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
Lore
That which is taught; hence, instruction; wisdom; advice; counsel.
If please ye, listen to my lore.
Plot
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Lore
Workmanship.
Plot
The pattern or sequence of interrelated events in a work of fiction, as a novel or film.
Lore
Lost.
Neither of them she found where she them lore.
Plot
A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.
Lore
Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote;
Early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend
Plot
To represent graphically, as on a chart
Plot a ship's course.
Plot
To locate (points or other figures) on a graph by means of coordinates.
Plot
To draw (a curve) connecting points on a graph.
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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