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- 1 A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.
- 1 An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words. obsolete, rhetoric
- 2 a schematic or preliminary plan wordnet
- 3 A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
"a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity"
- 4 an elaborate and systematic plan of action wordnet
- 5 A systematic plan of future action.
"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."
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- 6 an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world wordnet
- 7 A plot or secret, devious plan.
- 8 a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery wordnet
- 9 An orderly combination of related parts.
"the appearance and outward scheme of things"
- 10 a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole wordnet
- 11 A chart or diagram of a system or object.
"April 29, 1694, Robert South, A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France"
- 12 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).
- 13 A council housing estate. Scotland, UK, colloquial
"It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme."
- 14 Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:. Internet
- 15 A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members. UK
- 1 To plot, or contrive a plan; to manuever. intransitive
"Laura snatches coins from inside a truck to make a telephone call, scrounges shoes and clothes for them at a municipal beach, schemes to get a room key so she and Howie can sleep overnight in the Starlight Motel, steals a Jeepster from a deputy sheriff who's trying to arrest them."
- 2 form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner wordnet
- 3 To plan; to contrive; to manuever. transitive
"He schemed a plot. He made use of the hotel's stationery to write a letter."
- 4 devise a system or form a scheme for wordnet
Etymology
From late Middle English scheame, from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.
From late Middle English scheame, from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.
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