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• plot — [plät] n. [ME < OE, piece of land: some meanings infl. by COMPLOT] 1. a small area of ground marked off for some special use [garden plot, cemetery plot] 2. a chart or diagram, as of a building or estate 3. [short for COMPLOT] a secret,… …   English World dictionary

• Cunning — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Cunning >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 cunning cunning craft Sgm: N 1 cunningness cunningness craftiness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 subtlety subtlety artificiality Sgm: N 1 maneuvering maneuvering …   English dictionary for students

• plot — I n. conspiracy 1) to devise, hatch; weave a plot 2) to foil, thwart a plot 3) to expose a plot 4) a cunning, diabolic; sinister plot 5) a plot against 6) a plot to + inf. (to expose a plot to overthrow the government) story 7) to build,… …   Combinatory dictionary

• cunning — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Craftiness Nouns 1. cunning, craft, craftiness, canniness, wit; gumption; slyness, artifice, art; subtlety, finesse, maneuvering; diplomacy, Machiavellianism, politics; resourcefulness; Jesuitry;… …   English dictionary for students

• plot — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. diagram, plan, outline; field, enclosure, paddock, lot; scheme, conspiracy, intrigue, collusion. See region. v. conspire, machinate, scheme, intrigue; chart, plan, lay out. See cunning. II (Roget s… …   English dictionary for students

• plot — plotful, adj. plotless, adj. plotlessness, n. /plot/, n., v., plotted, plotting. n. 1. a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, esp. a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government. 2. Also called storyline.… …   Universalium

• plot — 1. noun 1) a plot to overthrow him Syn: conspiracy, intrigue, secret plan; machinations 2) the plot of her novel Syn: story line, story, scenario, action, thread; formal diegesis 3) …   Thesaurus of popular words

• The Cunning Peasant — ( Šelma sedlák in Czech) is an opera by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech language libretto is by Josef Otakar Veselý.Composition and reception The Cunning Peasant was written at a time when there was a lack of high quality Czech dramatic writers. In his …   Wikipedia

• Themes and plot devices in the films of Alfred Hitchcock — Alfred Hitchcock s films show an interesting tendency towards recurring themes and devices, such that one can almost feel that he was in some way making the same movie, or at least telling the same story, over and over again throughout his life… …   Wikipedia

• sly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cunning, furtive, wily; crafty, deceitful, stealthy, underhand; roguish, mischievous. See concealment. Ant., artless. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Crafty] Syn. wily, tricky, foxy, shifty, insidious,… …   English dictionary for students

• sly — [slī] adj. slier or slyer, sliest or slyest [ME sley < ON slœgr, clever, cunning, lit., able to strike < base of slā & OE slean, to strike: see SLAY] 1. Dial. skillful or clever 2. skillful at trickery or deceit; crafty; wily 3. showing a… …   English World dictionary