plot

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose.
• noun A measured area of land; a lot.
• noun A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
• noun The pattern or sequence of events in a narrative or drama.
• noun A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.
• intransitive verb To represent graphically, as on a chart.
• intransitive verb To locate (points or other figures) on a graph by means of coordinates.
• intransitive verb To draw (a curve) connecting points on a graph.
• intransitive verb To conceive and arrange the action and incidents of.
• intransitive verb To form a plot for; prearrange secretly or deviously.
• intransitive verb To form or take part in a plot; scheme.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make a map or plan of; lay down on paper according to scale: as, to plot a farm or an estate; to plot a ship's course on a chart.
• To determine or fix by measurements on a map or chart.
• To plan; form plans for; devise; contrive; conspire to effect or bring about: now rarely used in a good sense.
• Synonyms To concoct, brew, hatch, plan.
• To form a plan or plot; scheme; especially, to conspire.
• To divide into plots, as a building-site.
• To press into cakes or balls, as soap.
• To scald; steep in very hot water.
• To make (any liquid) scalding hot.
• noun A piece of ground; specifically, a small piece of ground of well-defined shape; a patch or spot of ground.
• noun A patch, spot, or splotch of any kind, as in a garment.
• noun In surveying, a plan or draft of a field, farm, estate, etc., surveyed and delineated on paper; a map or plan.
• noun A fully formulated scheme or plan; a systematized purpose; design; aim.
• noun A stratagem or secret plan; a secret project; an intrigue; a conspiracy.
• noun The story of a play, poem, novel, or romance, comprising a complication of incidents which are at last unfolded by unexpected means; the intrigue.
• noun Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plan.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
• intransitive verb To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
• transitive verb To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
• noun A small extent of ground; a plat.
• noun obsolete A plantation laid out.
• noun (Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
• transitive verb To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
• noun Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue.
• noun obsolete A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
• noun obsolete Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
• noun A plan; a purpose.
• noun In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The general course of a story including significant events that determine its course or significant patterns of events.
• noun An area or land used for building on or planting on.
• noun A plan to commit a crime.
• noun A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
• verb transitive To conceive (a crime, etc).
• verb transitive To trace out (a graph or diagram).
• verb transitive To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
• verb intransitive To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.