plot definition

1. a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
• examples: they concocted a plot to discredit the governor
• examples: I saw through his little game from the start
2. a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
• examples: a bean plot
• examples: a cabbage patch
• examples: a briar patch
3. the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
• examples: the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal
4. a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
5. plan secretly, usually something illegal
• examples: They plotted the overthrow of the government
6. devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
• examples: the writer is plotting a new novel