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Scheme

noun
1.
An elaborate and systematic plan of action.  Synonym: strategy.
2.
A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery.  Synonyms: dodge, dodging.
3.
A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.  Synonym: system.
4.
An internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world.  Synonym: schema.
5.
A schematic or preliminary plan.  Synonyms: outline, schema.
verb
(past & past part. schemed; pres. part. scheming)
1.
Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner.  Synonyms: connive, intrigue.
2.
Devise a system or form a scheme for.



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"Scheme" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Another scheme, very patriotic too, cost me an immensity: trying to make Indian cachemires in England, very beautiful they were, but they left not the tenth part of a penny in my private purse, and then my mother wanted some thousands for a new dairy; dairies ...
— Helen • Maria Edgeworth
... brother to accept Carry, providing that Mrs. George would also consent to accept her. But even this permission was accompanied by an assurance that it would not have been given had he not felt perfectly convinced that his wife would not listen for a moment to the scheme. He spoke of his wife almost with awe, when Mr. Fenwick left him to make this second attack. "She has never had nothing to say to none sich as that," said the farmer, shaking his head, as he alluded both to his wife and to his sister; "and I ain't sure as she'll be first-rate ...
— The Vicar of Bullhampton • Anthony Trollope
... means and possibility of my escape from this place: and that I may, with the greater pleasure to the reader, bring on the remaining part of my story, it may not be improper to give some account of my first conceptions on the subject of this foolish scheme for my escape, and how, and upon what foundation ...
— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Of York, Mariner, Vol. 1 • Daniel Defoe
... comedy. In the first place, an unseen hand was waiting to snuff out his candle. To plan life as if it consisted in an abundance of material wealth is something of a miscalculation in a world where death is part of the scheme of things. In the second place, Jesus saw no higher purpose in the man's aim and outlook to redeem his acquisitiveness. The man was a sublimated chipmunk, gloating over bushels of pignuts. If wealth is saved to raise and educate children, or achieve ...
— The Social Principles of Jesus • Walter Rauschenbusch
... Dame Partington's effort to sweep back the incoming tide with a hair-broom promised better hopes of success; a brigade of energetic firemen would drain off Lake Superior in a much shorter space of time than Liberian colonization would remove one-third of the slave population. The scheme is in the right direction, but as insufficient to overcome the difficulty as a popgun is to breach a fortified city; the only method of effectually enabling the system of colonization to be carried out, is—in my humble opinion—by setting apart some portion of ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray


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