scheme

1 an elaborate and systematic plan of action [syn: strategy]

2 a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery [syn: dodge, dodging]

3 a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" [syn: system]

4 an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world [syn: schema]

5 a schematic or preliminary plan [syn: outline, schema]

1 form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner [syn: intrigue, connive]

2 devise a system or form a scheme for

see Scheme

English

Pronunciation

Etymology

From schema.

Noun

1. A systematic plan of future action.
2. A plot or secret, devious plan.
3. An orderly combination of related parts.
4. A chart or diagram of a system or object.
5. A type of topological space.

Translations

• Arabic:
• Croatian: plan (1,2), shema (3,4)
• Chinese: 方案 (fāng àn)
• Dutch: schema , programma
• Finnish: suunnitelma
• French: système
• German: Schema
• Hungarian: terv
• Italian: schema
• Japanese: 計画 (けいかく, keikaku)
• Korean: 계획 (gyehoek)
• Portuguese: esquema
• Russian: схема (sχéma)
• Spanish: esquema
• Swedish: schema

Verb

1. To plot, or contrive a plan for something

Derived terms

• schema
• To make secret or devious plans

Scheme may refer to:

• Scheme (programming language), a minimalist, multi-paradigm dialect of Lisp
• Scheme (mathematics), an important concept in algebraic geometry
• Scheme (linguistics), a figure of speech that changes a sentence's structure

Systematic plans

• Collective investment scheme, many people investing money together, cf. Mutual fund
• URI scheme, the outermost part of internet URIs
• Color scheme, a set of colors chosen to be used together in some media
• Numbering scheme, an agreed-upon method of assigning nominal numbers to entities
• Rhyme scheme, the pattern of rhyming lines in poems and lyrics
• Housing scheme, Scottish way of saying "Housing estate"

Devious plans

• Scam, an attempt to swindle
• Get-rich-quick scheme, a usually flawed or fraudulent scheme for earning money with low risk
• Pyramid scheme, a non-sustainable business model involving the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people

See also

• Schema (disambiguation)

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