| verb | plan secretly, usually something illegal “They plotted the overthrow of the government” |
| verb | make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed |
| verb | make a plat of “Plat the town” |
| verb | devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet) “the writer is plotting a new novel” |
| adjective | planned in advance “with malice aforethought” |
| plotter | noun | a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action |
| plot | noun | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) |
| diagramming | noun | providing a chart or outline of a system |
| diagram | noun | a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts |