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Plotter   /plˈɑtər/   Listen
Plotter

noun
1.
A planner who draws up a personal scheme of action.  Synonym: schemer.
2.
A clerk who marks data on a chart.  Synonym: mapper.
3.
A member of a conspiracy.  Synonyms: coconspirator, conspirator, machinator.
4.
An instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures.






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"Plotter" Quotes from Famous Books



... that's it?" smiled Jimmie. "Well, you girls, as has happened to many another would-be plotter before now, have found things have gotten rather out ...
— American Cookery - November, 1921 • Various

... looked at the brass-bound box. Inside was a most complicated electrical timing apparatus, for setting off charges of explosive. It could be adjusted to cause the detonation at any set minute, giving the plotter time to be a ...
— The Moving Picture Boys at Panama - Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal • Victor Appleton

... vitally the subject of Captain Jerry's thoughts. From a placid, easygoing retired mariner, recent events had transformed the Captain into a plotter, a man with a "deep-laid scheme," as the gentlemanly, cigarette-smoking villain of the melodrama used to love to call it. To tell the truth, petticoat government was wearing on him. The marriage agreement, ...
— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... three kings—as has many and many another plotter in history before and since—reckoned without their host. They did not know the mettle that was in this ...
— The Junior Classics • Various

... our greatest treasures in the safest place we have." [27] "But how can a man make sure that he will gain?" "Ah, there you come," said the father, "to a most weighty matter. This is no easy task, I can tell you. If your general is to succeed he must prove himself an arch-plotter, a king of craft, full of deceits and stratagems, a cheat, a thief, and a robber, defrauding and overreaching ...
— Cyropaedia - The Education Of Cyrus • Xenophon


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