scheme
IPA: skˈim
noun
- (rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
- (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
- A systematic plan of future action.
- A plot or secret, devious plan.
- An orderly combination of related parts.
- A chart or diagram of a system or object.
- (mathematics) A mathematical structure that enlarges the notion of algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring (e.g. Fermat curves over the integers).
- (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate.
- (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
- (UK, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
- A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.
verb
- (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.
- (transitive) To plan; to contrive.
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Examples of "scheme" in Sentences
- He planned the scheme slyly.
- The people disavowed at the scheme.
- The structure emboldened the scheme.
- That was the first part of the scheme.
- The illegality was part of the scheme.
- In the larger scheme, it's inconsequential.
- In the grand scheme, that difference is minuscule.
- They then follow the scheme in the design of each object.
- It was a scheme to exterminate the Indians of the Amazon.
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