Scheme

Quick meaning: Scheme is a noun meaning (rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

Meaning

(rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

More Meanings

1. (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
2. A systematic plan of future action.
3. A plot or secret, devious plan.
4. An orderly combination of related parts.
5. A chart or diagram of a system or object.
6. (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate.
7. (mathematics) 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).

Example Sentences

the appearance and outward scheme of things

a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity

The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.

such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity

Word Forms

• schemes
• scheming
• schemed

Synonyms for scheme

Depending on context, synonyms include hatch, intrigue, blueprint, design, plan, plot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include connive, intrigue, dodging, strategy, dodge, project.

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