| portraying | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. depicting, depiction, portrayal, portraying | a representation by picture or portraiture. |
| ~ representational process | any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else. |
| ~ mirror | a faithful depiction or reflection.; "the best mirror is an old friend" |
| image | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. image, mental image | an iconic mental representation.; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate" |
| ~ internal representation, mental representation, representation | a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image. |
| ~ imagination image, thought-image | a mental image produced by the imagination. |
| ~ memory image | a mental image of something previously experienced. |
| ~ visual image, visualisation, visualization | a mental image that is similar to a visual perception. |
| ~ mental picture, impression, picture | a clear and telling mental image.; "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"; "the events left a permanent impression in his mind" |
| ~ auditory image | a mental image that is similar to an auditory perception. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. image, persona | (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world.; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" |
| ~ appearance, visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing. |
| ~ psychological science, psychology | the science of mental life. |
| ~ carl gustav jung, carl jung, jung | Swiss psychologist (1875-1961). |
| n. (artifact) | 3. icon, ikon, image, picture | a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" |
| ~ bitmap, electronic image | an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels. |
| ~ chiaroscuro | a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color. |
| ~ collage, montage | a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image.; "he used his computer to make a collage of pictures superimposed on a map" |
| ~ transparency, foil | picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector. |
| ~ computer graphic, graphic | an image that is generated by a computer. |
| ~ iconography | the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject.; "religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot" |
| ~ inset | a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one. |
| ~ likeness, semblance | picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing. |
| ~ cyclorama, diorama, panorama | a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene. |
| ~ reflection, reflexion | the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material).; "he studied his reflection in the mirror" |
| ~ representation | a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something. |
| ~ cat scan, scan | an image produced by scanning.; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan" |
| ~ echogram, sonogram | an image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves); used to observe fetal growth or to study bodily organs. |
| n. (cognition) | 4. epitome, image, paradigm, prototype | a standard or typical example.; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" |
| ~ example, model | a representative form or pattern.; "I profited from his example" |
| ~ concentrate | a concentrated example of something.; "the concentrate of contemporary despair" |
| ~ imago | (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood. |
| n. (communication) | 5. figure, figure of speech, image, trope | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. |
| ~ cakewalk | an easy accomplishment.; "winning the tournament was a cakewalk for him"; "invading Iraq won't be a cakewalk" |
| ~ blind alley | (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement.; "all the clues led the police into blind alleys"; "so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley" |
| ~ megahit, smash hit, blockbuster | an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel). |
| ~ sleeper | an unexpected hit.; "that movie was the sleeper of the summer" |
| ~ home run, bell ringer, bull's eye, mark | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal.; "the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer"; "scored a bull's eye"; "hit the mark"; "the president's speech was a home run" |
| ~ housecleaning | (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions.; "more housecleaning is in store at other accounting firms"; "many employees were discharged in a general housecleaning by the new owners" |
| ~ goldbrick | anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless. |
| ~ lens | (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood.; "the writer is the lens through which history can be seen" |
| ~ rhetorical device | a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance). |
| ~ conceit | an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things. |
| ~ irony | a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs. |
| ~ exaggeration, hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration. |
| ~ kenning | conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry. |
| ~ metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. |
| ~ metonymy | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads'). |
| ~ oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence'). |
| ~ prosopopoeia, personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature. |
| ~ simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as'). |
| ~ synecdoche | substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa. |
| ~ zeugma | use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one.; "`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma" |
| ~ domino effect | the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall). |
| ~ flip side | a different aspect of something (especially the opposite aspect).; "the flip side of your positive qualities sometimes get out of control"; "on the flip side of partnerships he talked about their competition" |
| ~ period | the end or completion of something.; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility" |
| ~ summer | the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty.; "the golden summer of his life" |
| ~ dawn | an opening time period.; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire" |
| ~ evening | a later concluding time period.; "it was the evening of the Roman Empire" |
| ~ rainy day | a (future) time of financial need.; "I am saving for a rainy day" |
| n. (person) | 6. double, image, look-alike | someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor).; "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ clone, dead ringer, ringer | a person who is almost identical to another. |
| n. (group) | 7. image, range, range of a function | (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined.; "the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers" |
| ~ math, mathematics, maths | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement. |
| ~ set | (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols.; "the set of prime numbers is infinite" |
| n. (attribute) | 8. image | the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public.; "although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry"; "the company tried to project an altruistic image" |
| ~ effect, impression | an outward appearance.; "he made a good impression"; "I wanted to create an impression of success"; "she retained that bold effect in her reproductions of the original painting" |
| n. (artifact) | 9. effigy, image, simulacrum | a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture).; "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone" |
| ~ guy | an effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day. |
| ~ graven image, idol, god | a material effigy that is worshipped.; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god" |
| ~ representation | a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something. |
| ~ bird-scarer, scarecrow, scarer, straw man, strawman | an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds. |
| ~ wax figure, waxwork | an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax. |
| v. (perception) | 10. image | render visible, as by means of MRI. |
| ~ visualise, visualize | view the outline of by means of an X-ray.; "The radiologist can visualize the cancerous liver" |
| v. (creation) | 11. envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize | imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" |
| ~ realize, see, understand, realise | perceive (an idea or situation) mentally.; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" |
| ~ visualise, visualize | form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract.; "Mathematicians often visualize" |
| ~ conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" |
| picture | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. painting, picture | graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface.; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre" |
| ~ abstraction | an abstract painting. |
| ~ cityscape | painting depicting a city or urban area. |
| ~ daub | an unskillful painting. |
| ~ distemper | a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder. |
| ~ finger-painting | a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers. |
| ~ graphic art | the arts of drawing or painting or printmaking. |
| ~ ikon, icon | a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church. |
| ~ landscape | painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery. |
| ~ miniature, illumination | painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts). |
| ~ monochrome | painting done in a range of tones of a single color. |
| ~ mural, wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface. |
| ~ nude, nude painting | a painting of a naked human figure. |
| ~ oil painting | a picture painted with oil paints. |
| ~ pentimento | the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age). |
| ~ sand painting | a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho); made of fine colored sands on a neutral background. |
| ~ waterscape, seascape | a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape). |
| ~ semi-abstraction | a semiabstract painting. |
| ~ still life | a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers. |
| ~ tanka | a Tibetan religious painting on fabric. |
| ~ trompe l'oeil | a painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality. |
| ~ watercolor, water-color, water-colour, watercolour | a painting produced with watercolors. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. impression, mental picture, picture | a clear and telling mental image.; "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"; "the events left a permanent impression in his mind" |
| ~ image, mental image | an iconic mental representation.; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate" |
| n. (state) | 3. picture, scene | a situation treated as an observable object.; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century" |
| ~ situation, state of affairs | the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time.; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation" |
| n. (communication) | 4. pictorial matter, picture | illustrations used to decorate or explain a text.; "the dictionary had many pictures" |
| ~ illustration | artwork that helps make something clear or attractive. |
| n. (communication) | 5. film, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture, picture show | a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" |
| ~ product, production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" |
| ~ sequence, episode | film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie. |
| ~ credit | an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work.; "the credits were given at the end of the film" |
| ~ subtitle, caption | translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. |
| ~ credits | a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film). |
| ~ telefilm | a movie that is made to be shown on television. |
| ~ scene, shot | a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film. |
| ~ feature film, feature | the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater.; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca'" |
| ~ final cut | the final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producer. |
| ~ home movie | a film made at home by an amateur photographer. |
| ~ collage film | a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage. |
| ~ coming attraction | a movie that is advertised to draw customers. |
| ~ shoot-'em-up | a movie featuring shooting and violence. |
| ~ short subject | a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature. |
| ~ docudrama, documentary, documentary film, infotainment | a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event. |
| ~ cinema verite | a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director. |
| ~ film noir | a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters.; "film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s" |
| ~ skin flick | a pornographic movie. |
| ~ rough cut | the first print of a movie after preliminary editing. |
| ~ silent movie, silent picture, silents | a movie without a soundtrack. |
| ~ slow motion | a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate. |
| ~ talkie, talking picture | a movie with synchronized speech and singing. |
| ~ 3-d, 3d, three-d | a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance. |
| ~ show | a social event involving a public performance or entertainment.; "they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway" |
| ~ musical, musical comedy, musical theater | a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing. |
| ~ dub | provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language. |
| ~ synchronise, synchronize | make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action.; "synchronize this film" |
| ~ film, shoot, take | make a film or photograph of something.; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" |
| ~ videotape, tape | record on videotape. |
| ~ reshoot | shoot again.; "We had to reshoot that scene 24 times" |
| n. (communication) | 6. picture, video | the visible part of a television transmission.; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone" |
| ~ telecasting, television, tv, video | broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects.; "she is a star of screen and video"; "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done" |
| ~ visual communication | communication that relies on vision. |
| n. (communication) | 7. characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word picture, word-painting | a graphic or vivid verbal description.; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" |
| ~ description, verbal description | a statement that represents something in words. |
| ~ epithet | descriptive word or phrase. |
| ~ portrait, portraiture, portrayal | a word picture of a person's appearance and character. |
| n. (cognition) | 8. picture | a typical example of some state or quality.; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair" |
| ~ typification, exemplification | a representational or typifying form or model. |
| n. (artifact) | 9. exposure, photo, photograph, pic, picture | a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material. |
| ~ beefcake | a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire. |
| ~ black and white, monochrome | a black-and-white photograph or slide. |
| ~ blueprint | photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.. |
| ~ cheesecake | a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire. |
| ~ closeup | a photograph taken at close range. |
| ~ daguerreotype | a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor. |
| ~ blowup, enlargement, magnification | a photographic print that has been enlarged. |
| ~ frame | a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film. |
| ~ glossy | a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper. |
| ~ headshot | a photograph of a person's head. |
| ~ hologram, holograph | the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography. |
| ~ longshot | a photograph taken from a distance. |
| ~ microdot | photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security). |
| ~ arial mosaic, photomosaic, mosaic | arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture. |
| ~ mug shot, mugshot | a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records). |
| ~ photocopy | a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work. |
| ~ photographic print, print | a printed picture produced from a photographic negative. |
| ~ photomicrograph | a photograph taken with the help of a microscope. |
| ~ radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagram, skiagraph, radiogram | a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays). |
| ~ representation | a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something. |
| ~ snapshot, snap, shot | an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera.; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends" |
| ~ spectrogram, spectrograph | a photographic record of a spectrum. |
| ~ stereoscopic photograph, stereoscopic picture, stereo | two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together. |
| ~ still | a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes).; "he wanted some stills for a magazine ad" |
| ~ telephoto, telephotograph | a photograph made with a telephoto lens. |
| ~ telephotograph | a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance. |
| ~ time exposure | a photograph produced with a relatively long exposure time. |
| ~ vignette | a photograph whose edges shade off gradually. |
| ~ wedding picture | photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their wedding. |
| ~ scene, shot | a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film. |
| v. (creation) | 10. depict, picture, render, show | show in, or as in, a picture.; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting" |
| ~ artistic creation, artistic production, art | the creation of beautiful or significant things.; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" |
| ~ interpret, represent | create an image or likeness of.; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl" |
| ~ illustrate | depict with an illustration. |
| ~ map | depict as if on a map.; "sorrow was mapped on the mother's face" |
| portrait | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. portrait, portraiture, portrayal | a word picture of a person's appearance and character. |
| ~ characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word-painting, word picture, picture | a graphic or vivid verbal description.; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. portrait, portrayal | any likeness of a person, in any medium.; "the photographer made excellent portraits" |
| ~ half-length | a portrait showing the body from only the waist up. |
| ~ likeness, semblance | picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing. |
| ~ self-portrait | a portrait of yourself created by yourself. |
| symbol | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. symbol | an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance. |
| ~ stock symbol | the letters used to identify listed companies on the securities exchanges where they are traded. |
| ~ accolade, honor, laurels, award, honour | a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction.; "an award for bravery" |
| ~ signal, signaling, sign | any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message.; "signals from the boat suddenly stopped" |
| ~ stigma, stain, brand, mark | a symbol of disgrace or infamy.; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain" |
| ~ token, item | an individual instance of a type of symbol.; "the word`error' contains three tokens of `r'" |
| ~ type | all of the tokens of the same symbol.; "the word `element' contains five different types of character" |
| ~ nose | a symbol of inquisitiveness.; "keep your nose out of it" |
| ~ numeral, number | a symbol used to represent a number.; "he learned to write the numerals before he went to school" |
| ~ symbolism | a system of symbols and symbolic representations. |
| ~ lingam | the Hindu phallic symbol of Siva. |
| ~ pound sign, pound | a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain). |
| ~ printed symbol, written symbol | a written or printed symbol. |
| ~ dollar mark, dollar sign, dollar | a symbol of commercialism or greed.; "he worships the almighty dollar"; "the dollar sign means little to him" |
| ~ monogram | a graphic symbol consisting of 2 or more letters combined (usually your initials); printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing. |
| ~ stamp, impression | a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving.; "he put his stamp on the envelope" |
| ~ mantle | the cloak as a symbol of authority.; "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders" |
| ~ crown | the Crown (or the reigning monarch) as the symbol of the power and authority of a monarchy.; "the colonies revolted against the Crown" |
| ~ staff | a rod carried as a symbol. |
| ~ icon | (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface. |
| ~ marking, mark, marker | a distinguishing symbol.; "the owner's mark was on all the sheep" |
| ~ identifier | a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it. |
| ~ variable | a symbol (like x or y) that is used in mathematical or logical expressions to represent a variable quantity. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. symbol, symbolic representation, symbolisation, symbolization | something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible.; "the eagle is a symbol of the United States" |
| ~ representational process | any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else. |
| ~ crossbones | two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death. |
| ~ cornucopia, horn of plenty | a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity. |
| ~ death's head | a human skull (or a representation of a human skull) used as a symbol of death. |
| ~ oriflamme | an inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle. |
| ~ white feather | a symbol of cowardice. |
| ~ allegory, emblem | a visible symbol representing an abstract idea. |
| devise | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. devise | a will disposing of real property. |
| ~ testament, will | a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die. |
| n. (possession) | 2. devise | (law) a gift of real property by will. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ inheritance, heritage | that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner. |
| ~ gift | something acquired without compensation. |
| v. (creation) | 3. contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent | come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" |
| ~ create by mental act, create mentally | create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands. |
| v. (creation) | 4. devise, get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare | arrange by systematic planning and united effort.; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office" |
| ~ initiate, pioneer | take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of.; "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants" |
| ~ put on, mount | prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance.; "mount a theater production"; "mount an attack"; "mount a play" |
| ~ lay | prepare or position for action or operation.; "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan" |
| ~ set up | begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc..; "set up an election" |
| ~ sandwich | make into a sandwich. |
| ~ spatchcock | prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock.; "spatchcock a guinea hen" |
| ~ embattle | prepare for battle or conflict. |
| v. (possession) | 5. devise | give by will, especially real property. |
| ~ bequeath, will, leave | leave or give by will after one's death.; "My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry"; "My grandfather left me his entire estate" |
| map out | | |
| v. (creation) | 1. map, map out | plan, delineate, or arrange in detail.; "map one's future" |
| ~ contrive, design, plan, project | make or work out a plan for; devise.; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack" |
| plot | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. game, plot, secret plan | 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" |
| ~ scheme, strategy | an elaborate and systematic plan of action. |
| ~ counterplan, counterplot | a plot intended to subvert another plot. |
| ~ intrigue, machination | a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends. |
| ~ cabal, conspiracy | a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot). |
| n. (location) | 2. patch, plot, plot of ground, plot of land | a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.; "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch" |
| ~ bed | a plot of ground in which plants are growing.; "the gardener planted a bed of roses" |
| ~ garden | a plot of ground where plants are cultivated. |
| ~ parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel | an extended area of land. |
| n. (communication) | 3. plot | the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc..; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal" |
| ~ story | a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events.; "he writes stories for the magazines" |
| ~ action | the series of events that form a plot.; "his novels always have a lot of action" |
| ~ plot line, storyline | the plot of a book or play or film. |
| n. (communication) | 4. plot | a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object. |
| ~ chart | a visual display of information. |
| v. (cognition) | 5. plot | plan secretly, usually something illegal.; "They plotted the overthrow of the government" |
| ~ plan | make plans for something.; "He is planning a trip with his family" |
| ~ cabal, complot, conspire, machinate, conjure | engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together.; "They conspired to overthrow the government" |
| ~ counterplot | make a plot in response to another plot. |
| ~ scheme, connive, intrigue | form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner. |
| v. (creation) | 6. diagram, plot | make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed. |
| ~ draw | represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface.; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse" |
| ~ graph | plot upon a graph. |
| v. (cognition) | 7. plat, plot | make a plat of.; "Plat the town" |
| ~ map | make a map of; show or establish the features of details of.; "map the surface of Venus" |
| v. (creation) | 8. plot | devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet).; "the writer is plotting a new novel" |
| ~ contrive, design, plan, project | make or work out a plan for; devise.; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack" |
| scheme | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. scheme, strategy | an elaborate and systematic plan of action. |
| ~ plan of action | a plan for actively doing something. |
| ~ dodge, stratagem, contrivance | an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade.; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track" |
| ~ counterterrorism | a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism. |
| ~ game plan | (sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport. |
| ~ game plan | (figurative) a carefully thought out strategy for achieving an objective in war or politics or business or personal affairs.; "newscasters speculated about the President's game plan for an invasion" |
| ~ house of cards, bubble | a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control.; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble" |
| ~ playbook | a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign.; "they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition" |
| ~ plot, secret plan, game | 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" |
| ~ pyramid scheme | a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in. |
| ~ waiting game | a strategy of delay. |
| ~ wheeze | (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick.; "a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat" |
| ~ incentive program, incentive scheme | a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something. |
| n. (communication) | 2. dodge, dodging, scheme | a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery. |
| ~ falsehood, untruth, falsity | a false statement. |
| n. (group) | 3. scheme, system | a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" |
| ~ group, grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. |
| ~ language system | a system of linguistic units or elements used in a particular language. |
| ~ judicatory, judicial system, judicature, judiciary | the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government. |
| ~ economic system, economy | the system of production and distribution and consumption. |
| ~ ecosystem | a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment. |
| ~ hierarchy | a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system.; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values" |
| ~ social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure | the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships.; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family" |
| ~ dragnet | a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals).; "caught in the police dragnet" |
| ~ machinery | a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions.; "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order" |
| ~ network, web | an interconnected system of things or people.; "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth" |
| ~ nonlinear system | a system whose performance cannot be described by equations of the first degree. |
| ~ subsystem | a system that is part of some larger system. |
| ~ organism | a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body.; "the social organism" |
| ~ syntax | a systematic orderly arrangement. |
| ~ body | a collection of particulars considered as a system.; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents" |
| ~ shebang | an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang'. |
| ~ solar system | the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field. |
| ~ water system | a river and all of its tributaries. |
| ~ root system, rootage | a developed system of roots. |
| n. (cognition) | 4. schema, scheme | an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world. |
| ~ internal representation, mental representation, representation | a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image. |
| n. (cognition) | 5. outline, schema, scheme | a schematic or preliminary plan. |
| ~ plan, program, programme | 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" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. connive, intrigue, scheme | form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner. |
| ~ plot | plan secretly, usually something illegal.; "They plotted the overthrow of the government" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. scheme | devise a system or form a scheme for. |
| ~ plan | make plans for something.; "He is planning a trip with his family" |
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