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Scheme

noun
1.
An elaborate and systematic plan of action.  Synonym: strategy.
2.
A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery.  Synonyms: dodge, dodging.
3.
A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.  Synonym: system.
4.
An internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world.  Synonym: schema.
5.
A schematic or preliminary plan.  Synonyms: outline, schema.
verb
(past & past part. schemed; pres. part. scheming)
1.
Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner.  Synonyms: connive, intrigue.
2.
Devise a system or form a scheme for.



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"Scheme" Quotes from Famous Books



... scheme secured the approbation of the Lady de Tilly, who had, in truth, contributed part of it. Le Gardeur said he was a poor fly whom they were resolved to catch and pin to the wall of a chateau en Espagne, but he would enter the web without a buzz of opposition on condition that Pierre ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... offices of The Spectator to inquire into the credibility of certain strange rumours that have recently been current in The Trade. They were to the effect that Mr. ST. LOE STRACHEY, Editor of The Spectator, having gallantly volunteered under the National Service Scheme, had had allotted to him, by one of the DIRECTOR-GENERAL'S subordinates, a post of national importance at Messrs. Bassopp's Brewery. Mr. STRACHEY'S fertile and forcible pen was (so the rumour went) to be employed by this firm in the drawing up of some pungent advertisements under ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, March 14, 1917 • Various
... the letter promised by Brentano in his note of mystery. This time she confided in Laurel her scheme for unraveling the tangled skein in the web of dishonor that had been woven about the ...
— The Motor Girls On Cedar Lake - The Hermit of Fern Island • Margaret Penrose
... in short, that this very peculiar and unworldly couple might be capable of taking huff and might refuse to go at his bidding. Sandy set his wits to work over this problem, and finally he concocted a scheme. He must come round this pair by guile. He thought and thought, and in the evening when her husband was out he had a long talk with his niece. By a few judiciously chosen words he contrived to frighten Charlotte about her husband's health. ...
— How It All Came Round • L. T. Meade
... correspondent at Giants' Bay writes: "The excitement here is unabated. All sorts of conjectures are afloat. General opinion seems to connect the wholesale disappearance of tourists and the sudden death of the three giants as parts of the fiendish scheme of some person unknown. The miscreant is supposed to be ...
— Boycotted - And Other Stories • Talbot Baines Reed


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