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# plotted

verb, past form of plot (plot, plots, plotted, plotting); adjective (plotted)

«plotted» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (maths, maps) Marked points on a graph, grid or map: "We plotted the points." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/#m1)
2. Secretly planned something, usually bad: "They plotted to steal the crown." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/#m2)
3. Planned the story of a book or film: "a well-plotted mystery". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/#m3)
4. (plotted plant) Planted in a pot (rare; usually "potted"). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/#m4)

### In the lessons

In maths, you plot coordinates like (2, 3) on a grid and join them to make a line graph; in science you plot results. In history, Guy Fawkes and others plotted to blow up Parliament in 1605 (the Gunpowder Plot). In English lessons, a well-plotted story has events that fit together.

### Examples

- We plotted the points (1, 2) and (3, 4) on the grid. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/#x1)
- The temperatures were plotted on a line graph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/#x2)
- The pirates plotted to take the ship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/#x3)
- Guy Fawkes plotted to blow up Parliament. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/#x4)
- The captain plotted a course on the map. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/#x5)
- The mystery is cleverly plotted. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/#x6)
- She plotted her revenge on her brother for weeks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/#x7)
- She now plotted continually how she might destroy her good fortune. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/#x8)

### Note

Double t: plot, plotted, plotting. In maths, when plotting (x, y), go across first (x), then up (y): "along the corridor, then up the stairs".

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «plotted» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plotted/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«plotted» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/plotted.html) on Mova free.