1. A systematic plan of action: “Did you ever carry out your scheme of writing a series of sonnets embodying all the great epochs of art?” (Edith Wharton, That Good May Come 1894). 2. A secret or devious plan; a plot. See synonyms at plan. 3. An orderly combination of related parts: an irrigation scheme with dams, reservoirs, and channels.4. A chart, diagram, or outline of a system or object.
VERB:
Inflected forms: schemed, schem·ing, schemes
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To plot: scheming their revenge.2. To contrive a plan or scheme for.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To make plans, especially secret or devious ones.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin schma, figure, from Greek skhma. See segh- in Appendix I.
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