Definition of scheme

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Scheme (n.) Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.

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Topic :: Topic (n.) A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle..
Panhellenism :: Panhellenism (n.) A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.
Scheme :: Scheme (n.) Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.
Project :: Project (n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
Underplot :: Underplot (n.) A clandestine scheme; a trick.
Manoeuvre :: Manoeuvre (n.) To manage with address or art; to scheme.
Prospectus :: Prospectus (n.) A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work..
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one..
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
Schemeful :: Schemeful (a.) Full of schemes or plans.
Castlebuilder :: Castlebuilder (n.) Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes.
Plan :: Plan (a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition..
Socialism :: Socialism (n.) A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism..
Designer :: Designer (n.) A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.
Outline :: Outline (n.) Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech..
Work :: Work (n.) To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth..
Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events..
Lottery :: Lottery (n.) A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance..
Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends.
Horoscope :: Horoscope (n.) The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune..
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