Plot vs. Plan — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Plot and Plan
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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
Plan
A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective to do something. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal.
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
Plan
An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective
A plan for improving math instruction.
Plot
A small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening
A vegetable plot
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Plan
A proposed or intended course of action
Had no plans for the evening.
Plot
A graph showing the relation between two variables.
Plan
A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline
A seating plan.
The plan of a story.
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
Plan
A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.
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
Plan
In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted.
Plot
Mark (a route or position) on a chart
He started to plot lines of ancient sites
Plan
A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit
A pension plan.
Plot
A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose
A garden plot.
Plan
To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of
Plan a campaign.
Plot
A measured area of land; a lot.
Plan
To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend
They plan to buy a house.
Plot
A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
Plan
To draw or make a graphic representation of.
Plot
See graph1.
Plan
To make plans.
Plot
The pattern or sequence of interrelated events in a work of fiction, as a novel or film.
Plan
A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.
Plot
A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.
Plan
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.
Plot
To represent graphically, as on a chart
Plot a ship's course.
Plan
A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
Plot
To locate (points or other figures) on a graph by means of coordinates.
Plan
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
Plot
To draw (a curve) connecting points on a graph.
Plan
A subscription to a service.
A phone plan
An Internet plan
Plot
To write or develop the plot of
"I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read" (James Baldwin).
Plan
(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
The architect planned the building for the client.
Plot
To form a plot for; prearrange secretly or deviously
Plot an assassination.
Plan
(transitive) To create a plan for.
They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
Plot
To form or take part in a plot; scheme
Were plotting for months before the attack.
Plan
(intransitive) To intend.
He planned to go, but work intervened.
Plot
To write or develop the plot for a work of fiction
A good mystery writer must plot well.
Plan
(intransitive) To make a plan.
They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.
Plot
(narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
Plan
A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.
Plot
An area or land used for building on or planting on.
Plan
A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.
God's plans like lines pure and white unfold.
Plot
A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
Plan
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
The simple plan,That they should take who have the power,And they should keep who can.
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.
Plan
To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.
Plot
Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
Plan
To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.
Even in penance, planning sins anew.
Plot
Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
Plan
A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished;
They drew up a six-step plan
They discussed plans for a new bond issue
Plot
A plan; a purpose.
Plan
An arrangement scheme;
The awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult
It was an excellent design for living
A plan for seating guests
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.
Plan
Scale drawing of a structure;
The plans for City Hall were on file
Plot
To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
They had plotted a robbery.
They were plotting against the king.
Plan
Have the will and intention to carry out some action;
He plans to be in graduate school next year
The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion
Plot
(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
They plotted the number of edits per day.
Plan
Make plans for something;
He is planning a trip with his family
Plot
(transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
Every five minutes they plotted their position.
Plan
Make or work out a plan for; devise;
They contrived to murder their boss
Design a new sales strategy
Plan an attack
Plot
A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
Plan
Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
Design a better mousetrap
Plan the new wing of the museum
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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