plotplot2●くろまる○しろまる○しろまる verb (plotted, plotting)1[intransitive, transitive]PLAN to make a secret plan to harm a person or organization, especially a political leader or governmentplot to do somethingThey had plotted to blow up the White House.plot againstHe suspected that the military were secretly plotting against him.The minister was found guilty of plotting the downfall of the government.the story of a woman who plots revenge2[transitive] (also plot out)LINE to draw marks or a line to represent facts, numbers etcWe plotted a graph to show the increase in sales figures this year.plot something on somethingYou can plot all these numbers on one diagram for comparison.3[transitive] (also plot out)TTATTWPLACE to mark, calculate, or follow the path of an aircraft or ship, for example on a mapWe plotted a course across the Pacific.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusplot• Hence, neither the historicaldynamics of myths nor their impact upon presentculture can be traced with confidence or systematically plotted.• Plotting against the government was punishable by death.• Eddie is merely reactiveplottingdevice.• Crumey has his fun, but plots his farce elegantly.• The same data are plotted in b but the species are categorised into three different life stylesdenoted by different symbols.• The results are plotted in figure 6.1.• The results are plotted in figure 9.10.• Cheaperflatbedplotters, capable of plotting on sheets of A4 or A3 sizepaper, can be interfaced to personalcomputers.• She spent monthsplottingrevenge.• I intricately plotted the conversations beforehand.plot to do something• They cluster around telephoneboxes and the busstation, plotting to head north.• At the end of August Kerensky abruptly denounced Kornilov for plotting tooverthrow the government.• Eighteen months later, Wei resurfaced when charges were brought against him for plotting to overthrow the government.• James Caan is the corruptminer who plots toseize the rights.• This is not, however the perk it seems, as clients were perpetually dreaming and plotting to stop dealing with Harvard.plotted ... course• Ahab plotted a course which he hoped would take him to the whale.