Plot vs. Plat

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  • Plat

    In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Surveys to show the distance and bearing between section corners, sometimes including topographic or vegetation information. City, town or village plats show subdivisions into blocks with streets and alleys. Further refinement often splits blocks into individual lots, usually for the purpose of selling the described lots; this has become known as subdivision.

    After the filing of a plat, legal descriptions can refer to block and lot-numbers rather than portions of sections. In order for plats to become legally valid, a local governing body, such as a public works department, urban planning commission, or zoning board must normally review and approve them.

Wikipedia
  • Plot (noun)

    The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. from 1640s

    “storyline”

  • Plot (noun)

    An area or land used for building on or planting on. from 1550s

    “parcel”

  • Plot (noun)

    A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

  • Plot (noun)

    A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. from 1580s

    “conspiracy|scheme”

    “The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.”

    “The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.”

  • Plot (noun)

    Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

  • Plot (noun)

    Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

  • Plot (noun)

    A plan; a purpose.

  • Plot (verb)

    To conceive (a crime, etc).

    “They had plotted a robbery.”

  • Plot (verb)

    To trace out (a graph or diagram).

    “They plotted the number of edits per day.”

  • Plot (verb)

    To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).

    “Every five minutes they plotted their position.”

  • Plot (verb)

    To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.

    “They were plotting against the king.”

  • Plat (noun)

    A plot of land; a lot.

  • Plat (noun)

    A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a document.

  • Plat (noun)

    A plot, a scheme.

  • Plat (noun)

    A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).

  • Plat (noun)

    Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.

  • Plat (verb)

    To plat; to map.

  • Plat (verb)

    To braid, to plait.

  • Plat (adjective)

    Flat; level; frank, on the level.

  • Plat (adverb)

    Flatly, plainly.

    “bluntly|directly|straightforwardly”

Wiktionary
  • Plot (noun)

    a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful

    “there’s a plot to overthrow the government”

  • Plot (noun)

    the main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence

    “the plot consists almost entirely of a man and woman falling in love”

    “he outlined his idea for a movie plot”

  • Plot (noun)

    a small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening

    “a vegetable plot”

  • Plot (noun)

    a graph showing the relation between two variables.

  • Plot (noun)

    a diagram, chart, or map.

  • Plot (verb)

    secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action)

    “the two men are serving sentences for plotting a bomb campaign”

    “brother plots against brother”

  • Plot (verb)

    devise the sequence of events in (a play, novel, film, or similar work)

    “in a crime story you have to plot carefully to achieve the surprise at the end”

    “she would plot a chapter as she drove”

  • Plot (verb)

    mark (a route or position) on a chart

    “he started to plot lines of ancient sites”

  • Plot (verb)

    mark out or allocate (points) on a graph

    “the dependent variable’s points are plotted on the Y axis”

  • Plot (verb)

    make (a curve) by marking out a number of points on a graph

    “a cooling curve is plotted and the freezing point determined”

  • Plot (verb)

    illustrate by use of a graph

    “it is possible to plot fairly closely the rate at which recruitment of girls increased”

Oxford Dictionary

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