Plot and Shape

Plot

Plot verb - To engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends.
Usage example: mobsters were caught plotting to take over the company

Shape and plot are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shape" instead a verb "Plot".

Nearby Words: plotted, plotting, plotless

Shape

Shape verb - To work out the details of (something) in advance.
Usage example: over the winter the committee shaped the company's new marketing strategy

Plot and shape are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Plot" instead a verb "Shape".

Nearby Words: shaped, shapeless, shapely, shaping

How words are described

good good plot good shape
long long plot long shape
exact exact plot exact shape
particular particular plot particular shape
Other adjectives: better, similar, usual, common, current, original, true, simple, actual, real, large, big, great, bad, dark, general, bizarre, basic, different, overall.

Common collocations

realm plot realm shape realm
way plot way shape way

Both words in one sentence

  • Western Animation / Justice League: War Amusingly, by the end of the plot he manages to shape up and puts together a careful plan of attack, only for Shazam to ruin it by doing this instead - which Lantern lampshades.
  • One episode of Painkiller Jane had Jane imprisoned in an institution in a plot involving a shape-changer and rescued by friend Maureen.
  • Franchise / Jewelpet Sunshine drops this as a main plot point, but still uses it for purposes of parody in the shape of Kurara Nemoto, a cosplayer who had always dreamed of becoming a Magical Girl Warrior.
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