An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity
To plot, or contrive a plan; to manuever.
Laura snatches coins from inside a truck to make a telephone call, scrounges shoes and clothes for them at a municipal beach, schemes to get a room key so she and Howie can sleep overnight in the Starlight Motel, steals a Jeepster from a deputy sheriff who's trying to arrest them.
To plan; to contrive; to manuever.
A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.
Borrowed from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.
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He schemed a plot. He made use of the hotel's stationery to write a letter.