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scheme
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What does scheme mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (10)
noun
- An orderly combination of related parts.
- A chart or diagram of a system or object.
- A mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing “varieties” defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).
- A council housing estate.
- Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
- A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
- (obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
verb
- To plot, or contrive a plan; to maneuver.
- To plan; to contrive; to maneuver.
proper noun
- A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.
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She had learnt that he was about to leave England, and observed what an excellent and promising scheme it seemed to be.
"And do you think that I am going to steal these men's money to help you plunder somebody in a new scheme?"
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This bland, slick, talkative bookseller, was he arranging some blackmailing scheme to kidnap the girl and wring blood-money out of her father?
The young man put down his candlestick with mock solemnity, and, shaking his head, “Ah, you have defeated a great scheme, sir!”
If ever they formed any scheme of the kind, they at all events refrained from any attempt to carry it into effect.