scheme

[Scheme]

A scheme is an elaborate plan or plot. It's going to take a really solid scheme, probably involving teleportation or some sort of temporary cloning, to make an appearance at both parties at once.

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A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

Noun
a schematic or preliminary plan

Noun
an elaborate and systematic plan of action

Noun
an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world

Noun
a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

Noun
a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"

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Verb
form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

Verb
devise a system or form a scheme for


n.
A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

n.
A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.

n.
Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.

n.
A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

v. t.
To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.

v. i.
To form a scheme or schemes.


Scheme

Scheme , n. [L. schema a rhetorical figure, a shape, figure, manner, Gr. , , form, shape, outline, plan, fr. , , to have or hold, to hold out, sustain, check, stop; cf. Skr. sah to be victorious, to endure, to hold out, AS. sige victory, G. sieg. Cf. Epoch, Hectic, School.] 1. A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
The appearance and outward scheme of things.
Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity.
Arguments . . . sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy.
The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.
2. A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cuttig off our feet when we want shoes.
3. Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.
To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France.
4. (Astrol.) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment o at a given event.
A blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity.
Syn. -- Plan; project; contrivance; purpose; device; plot. -- Scheme, Plan. Scheme and plan are subordinate to design; they propose modes of carrying our designs into effect. Scheme is the least definite of the two, and lies more in speculation. A plan is drawn out into details with a view to being carried into effect. As schemes are speculative, they often prove visionary; hence the opprobrious use of the words schemer and scheming. Plans, being more practical, are more frequently carried into effect.
He forms the well-concerted scheme of mischief; 'T is fixed, 't is done, and both are doomed to death.
Artists and plans relieved my solemn hours; I founded palaces, and planted bowers.

Scheme

Scheme, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schemed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scheming.] To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction.

Scheme

Scheme, v. i. To form a scheme or schemes.

A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.

To form a scheme or schemes.

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Usage Examples

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.

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Other Usage Examples

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

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