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
- ... and she said: * scheme and plot, plot and scheme*
- Yet, if taken literally, the Ervin scheme is a scheme of presidential subordination.
- Pursued to the end, the Ervin scheme could produce a national polity which would be almost as overbalanced in the direction of congressional supremacy as the Nixon scheme is in the direction of presidential supremacy.
- Garcia's defense attorney, John Bishop of Cedar Rapids, said in court records the title scheme was just one thread of a larger network that allowed workers and residents in the meatpacking town to earn a living and remain in the U.S.
- Anyway, that lurid phase of Toronto history - and my aborted career as Rosie Lovelace - came to mind upon learning this past week about an apparent back-door you should forgive the expression scheme to turn the city once again into North America's body rub capital.
- In response to the ruling, Congress added a short provision to the federal fraud statute that said, "For the purposes of this chapter, the term scheme or artifice to defraud includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services."
- If his scheme is adopted, student numbers are likely to fall anyway, though the prospects for a vocational degree in, say, surf science (with "frequent practical beach sessions" – check out the University of Plymouth) may be better, with Browne's market in charge, than they are for low-priority arts courses featuring Venetian art history.
- Very elaborately he devised a funding scheme which, taken in connection with his system of issues, was in effect what in these days would be called an "_interconvertibility scheme_" By various degrees of persuasion or force, -- the guillotine looming up in the background, -- holders of _assignats_ were urged to convert them into evidence of national debt, bearing interest at five per cent, with the understanding that if more paper were afterward needed more would be issued.
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