secondary plot - Wordage.info - Free Thesaurus Tool for Word Discovery - Expanded Thesaurus, Reverse Dictionary Lookup

plat collapse: a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.); make a plat of; "Plat the town"

scheme collapse: an elaborate and systematic plan of action; form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner; devise a system or form a scheme for

catastrophe collapse: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface; a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster"

characterization collapse: the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features; "the media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd"

graph collapse: a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes; represent by means of a graph; "chart the data"; plot upon a graph

theme collapse: a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"; (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"; provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"

rabbit collapse: any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food; flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food; hunt rabbits

halftone collapse: an engraving used to reproduce an illustration; a print obtained from photoengraving

premeditate collapse: think or reflect beforehand or in advance; "I rarely premeditate, which is a mistake"; consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand; "premeditated murder"

concoct collapse: make a concoction (of) by mixing; prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; "concoct a strange mixture"

contrivance collapse: the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"; an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"; an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"

intrigue collapse: a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends; a clandestine love affair; cause to be interested or curious

manor collapse: the mansion of a lord or wealthy person; the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)

warren collapse: a colony of rabbits; an overcrowded residential area; a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits; United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974); United States writer and poet (1905-1989)

paddy collapse: rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown; (slur) a person of Irish descent

hotbed collapse: a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants; a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad); "it was a hotbed of vice"

vicarious collapse: suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; "vicarious atonement"; occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; "vicarious menstruation"; experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement"

solar system collapse: the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field

gerrymander collapse: an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage); divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts

planet collapse: (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction; any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star

rig collapse: gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise; formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel; equip with sails or masts; "rig a ship"; connect or secure to; "They rigged the bomb to the ignition"; manipulate in a fraudulent manner; "rig prices"; arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election"

argument collapse: a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable; a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie; "the editor added the argument to the poem"; a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"; a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"

elementary education collapse: education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school

binary collapse: consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) or based on two; "a binary star is a system in which two stars revolve around each other"; "a binary compound"; "the binary number system has two as its base"; of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base; "a binary digit"

confederacy collapse: the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Wordage.info