scheme

Plural: schemes

Noun

• an elaborate and systematic plan of action
• a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
• a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
• an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
• a schematic or preliminary plan
• An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
• A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
• A systematic plan of future action.
• A plot or secret, devious plan.
• An orderly combination of related parts.
• A chart or diagram of a system or object.
• A mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).
• A council housing estate.
• Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
• A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.

Verb

Verb Forms: schemed, scheming, schemes

• To plan or plot, often secretively or deviously.
• form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
• devise a system or form a scheme for
• To plot, or contrive a plan; to manuever.
• To plan; to contrive; to manuever.

Examples

• He would SCHEME for turns, setting up complex word combinations.

Synonyms

connive, dodge, dodging, intrigue, outline, schema, strategy, system, blueprint, chart, conspiracy, design, diagram, estate, graph, graphic, hatch, machination, map, plan, plot, project, proposal, schematic, scheme

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