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scheme  (skm)

n.

1. A systematic plan of action: "Did you ever carry out your scheme of writing a series of sonnets embodying all the great epochs of art?" (Edith Wharton).

2. A secret or devious plan; a plot. See Synonyms at plan.

3. An orderly combination of related parts: an irrigation scheme with dams, reservoirs, and channels.

4. A chart, diagram, or outline of a system or object.

v. schemed, schem·ing, schemes

v.tr.

1. To plot: scheming their revenge.

2. To contrive a plan or scheme for.

v.intr.

To make plans, especially secret or devious ones.

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[Latin schma, figure, from Greek skhma; see segh- in Indo-European roots.]

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schemer n.

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scheme [skiːm]

n

1. a systematic plan for a course of action

2. a systematic arrangement of correlated parts; system

3. a secret plot

4. a visionary or unrealizable project

5. a chart, diagram, or outline

6. (Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Astrology) an astrological diagram giving the aspects of celestial bodies at a particular time

7. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) Chiefly Brit a plan formally adopted by a commercial enterprise or governmental body, as for pensions, etc.

8. Chiefly Scot an area of housing that is laid out esp by a local authority; estate

vb

1. (tr) to devise a system for

2. to form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

[from Latin schema, from Greek skhēma form]

schemer  n

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Scheme(s) a body of related doctrines; a methodical list; a programme of action.

Examples: scheme of questions, 1780; of times, 1677; schemes of blood, 1646; of saddest evils, 1701.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	scheme - an elaborate and systematic plan of action strategy plan of action - a plan for actively doing something dodge, stratagem, contrivance - an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track" counterterrorism - a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism game plan - (sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport game plan - (figurative) a carefully thought out strategy for achieving an objective in war or politics or business or personal affairs; "newscasters speculated about the President's game plan for an invasion" house of cards, bubble - a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble" playbook - a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign; "they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition" plot, secret plan, game - a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal); "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start" pyramid scheme - a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in waiting game - a strategy of delay wheeze - (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick; "a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat" incentive program, incentive scheme - a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something
	2.	scheme - a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery dodging, dodge falsehood, untruth, falsity - a false statement
	3.	scheme - a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" system group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit language system - a system of linguistic units or elements used in a particular language judicatory, judicial system, judiciary, judicature - the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government economic system, economy - the system of production and distribution and consumption ecosystem - a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment hierarchy - a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values" social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure - the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family" dragnet - a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals); "caught in the police dragnet" machinery - a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions; "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order" network, web - an interconnected system of things or people; "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth" nonlinear system - a system whose performance cannot be described by equations of the first degree subsystem - a system that is part of some larger system organism - a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body; "the social organism" syntax - a systematic orderly arrangement body - a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents" shebang - an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang' solar system - the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field water system - a river and all of its tributaries root system, rootage - a developed system of roots
	4.	scheme - an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world schema internal representation, mental representation, representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
	5.	scheme - a schematic or preliminary plan schema, outline plan, program, programme - a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue"
Verb	1.	scheme - form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner connive, intrigue plot - plan secretly, usually something illegal; "They plotted the overthrow of the government"
	2.	scheme - devise a system or form a scheme for plan - make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his family"

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scheme

noun

1. plan, programme, strategy, system, design, project, theory, proposal, device, tactics, course of action, contrivance a private pension scheme

2. plot, dodge, ploy, ruse, game (informal), shift, intrigue, conspiracy, manoeuvre, machinations, subterfuge, stratagem a quick money-making scheme

verb

plot, plan, intrigue, manoeuvre, conspire, contrive, collude, wheel and deal, machinate Everyone's always scheming and plotting.

Quotations
"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men"
"Gang aft a-gley" [Robert Burns To a Mouse]

Translations

scheme [ˈskiːm]

n

(= idea, plan) → plan m, projet m; (dishonest) → combine f
a money-making scheme → une combine pour gagner de l'argent
a crazy scheme he dreamed up
BUT un truc farfelu qu'il a inventé.

(= official project) → projet m
a council road-widening scheme → un projet municipal d'élargissement des routes
training schemes → programmes mpl de formation
the State pension scheme → le régime de retraite de l'État

vi → comploter, manigancer

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scheme

n

(= plan) → Plan m, → Programm nt; (= project) → Projekt nt; (= insurance scheme) → Programm nt; (= idea) → Idee f; the scheme for the new bypass → das neue Umgehungsstraßenprojekt; a scheme of work → ein Arbeitsprogramm nt → or -plan m; savings scheme → Sparprogramm nt

(= plot) → (raffinierter) Plan; (esp political) → Komplott nt; (at court, in firm etc) → Intrige f; a scheme to overthrow the government → ein Komplott m → gegen die Regierung, Pläne pl, → die Regierung zu stürzen; the CIA’s schemes to discredit Castro → die Machenschaften pl → des CIA, um Castro zu diskreditieren

(= arrangement, layout, of town centre etc) → Anlage f; (of room etc) → Einrichtung f; the new road scheme → das neue Straßensystem; rhyme scheme → Reimschema nt; it doesn’t fit into my scheme of things → es hat keinen Platz in meiner Betrachtungsweise; in the grand scheme of things → im Ganzen gesehen

(Brit: = housing scheme) → Siedlung f

vi → Pläne schmieden or aushecken (inf); (in firm etc) → intrigieren; to scheme for something → auf etw (acc) → hinarbeiten

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scheme [skiːm]

1. n

a. (plan) → piano; (method) → sistema m
a scheme to rebuild or for rebuilding sth → un piano per la ricostruzione di qc
a scheme of work → un piano or programma m di lavoro
it's some crazy scheme of his → è una delle sue idee balzane

b. (dishonest plan, plot) scheme (to do or for doing sth/for sth) → piano (per fare qc/per qc)

c. (arrangement) → sistemazione f
colour scheme → combinazione f di colori
man's place in the scheme of things (fig) → il posto dell'uomo nell'ordine delle cose

2. vi to scheme (to do) (intrigue) → tramare (per fare), complottare (per fare)

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scheme [skiːm]

1. n

a. (plan) → piano; (method) → sistema m
a scheme to rebuild or for rebuilding sth → un piano per la ricostruzione di qc
a scheme of work → un piano or programma m di lavoro
it's some crazy scheme of his → è una delle sue idee balzane

b. (dishonest plan, plot) scheme (to do or for doing sth/for sth) → piano (per fare qc/per qc)

c. (arrangement) → sistemazione f
colour scheme → combinazione f di colori
man's place in the scheme of things (fig) → il posto dell'uomo nell'ordine delle cose

2. vi to scheme (to do) (intrigue) → tramare (per fare), complottare (per fare)

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scheme

n scheme [skiːm]

1 a plan or arrangement; a way of doing something a colour scheme for the room; There are various schemes for improving the roads. skema خُطَّه، بَرْنامَج، تَصْميم план plán, projekt plan; -plan das Schema σχέδιο, πλάνο plan, programa, proyecto kava نقشه؛طرح suunnitelma plan תוֹכנִית योजना plan terv(ezet) rencana áætlun piano, progetto 計画 계획 planas, projektas, būdas plāns; projekts skema plan plan, ordning, system system, plan, projekt esquema plan план, проект plán, projekt načrt plan plan, förslag แผนการ; การจัดวิธีการทำอะไรบางอย่าง plân 方案 план; програма منصوبہ kế hoạch 方案

2 a (usually secret) dishonest plan His schemes to steal the money were discovered. plannetjie مَكيدَه заговор pikle plan der Plan πλεκτάνη, κομπίνα estratagema salasepitsus توطئه juoni combine מְזִימָה पद्धति spletka cselszövés rencana jahat ráðabrugg intrigo, complotto たくらみ 모의 intriga, pinklės intriga; ļauns nodoms skim intrige intrige intryga ardil complot заговор, нечестный замысел machinácie naklep zavera intrig, listig plan แผนการที่ไม่ซื่อ hile, düzen 陰謀 інтрига; махінація سازش âm mưu 阴谋

v

to make (especially dishonest) schemes He was punished for scheming against the President; They have all been scheming for my dismissal. konkel يُدَبِّرُ مُؤامَرةً أو مَكيدَه заговорнича intrikovat lave intriger Ränke schmieden μηχανορραφώ,δολοπλοκώ conspirar sepitsema توطئه كردن juonia comploter לִרקוֹם מְזִימָה योजना बनाना या तैयार करना praviti planove összeesküszik membuat rencana brugga ráð complottare, tramare たくらむ 모의하다 regzti intrigas vērpt intrigas membuat rancangan sulit intrigeren legge opp råd mot, lage intriger spiskować, intrygować conspirar a complota замышлять недоброе; плести интриги intrigovať spletkariti kovati zaveru intrigera, smida ränker วางแผน düzen kurmak, dolap çevirmek 策劃 замишляти; інтригувати سازش کرنا có âm mưu 策划

n schemer

He's a dangerous schemer. konkelaar مُدَبِّر مَكائِد أو دَسائِس интригант intrikán intrigemager der Ränkeschmied μηχανορράφος intrigante intrigant توطئه گر vehkeilijä intrigant/-ante זוֹמֵם תַּחבּוּלוֹת षड्यंत्रकारी planer, spletkar cselszövő perencana ráðabruggari cospiratore 陰謀家 계획자 intrigantas intrigants pembuat rancangan sulit intrigant intrigemaker, renkesmed intrygant conspirador intrigant интриган intrigán spletkar prevarant intrigmakare, ränksmidare ผู้ออกอุบาย düzenbaz, entrikacı 密謀者 інтриган سازشی، چالباز kẻ âm mưu 阴谋家

adj scheming

having or making (usually secret) dishonest plans a scheming woman. knoeiend تَدْبير مَكائِد أو دَسائِس подмолен pletichářský intrigerende ränkevoll ραδιούργος maquinador, intrigante intrigeeriv مكار juonitteleva intrigant זוֹמֵם תַּחבּוּלוֹת षड्यंत्र करना praviti spletke áskálódó beritikad buruk undirförull intrigante, (che trama) たくらみのある 약삭빠른, 교활한 užsiimantis intrigomis intrigu pilns; viltīgs yang membuat rancangan sulit sluw beregnende, intrigant intrygancki intrigante intrigant занимающийся интригами intrigánsky spletkarski prevarantski beräknande, intrigant เจ้าเล่ห์ hileci, düzenbaz 陰險的 підступний; лукавий سازشیں کرنے والا có mưu đồ 阴险的

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scheme → مخطط systém plan Plan μεθόδευση plan suunnitelma plan shema piano 計画 계획 programma handlingsplan plan esquema схема plan แผนการ plan kế hoạch 计划