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

devise the sequence of events in (a play, novel, film, or similar work)

she would plot a chapter as she drove

in a crime story you have to plot carefully to achieve the surprise at the end

mark (a route or position) on a chart

he started to plot lines of ancient sites

a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful

they have been jailed for their part in a plot to defraud a Swiss bank

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

a small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening

a vegetable plot

a graph showing the relation between two variables