scheme
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Is scheme a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.obsoleterhetoric
2. (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.Examples: "a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity"
3. (mathematics) 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).
4. (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate.Examples: "It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme."; "“You can’t really say to the kids in the schemes [Scottish council estates]^([sic]): don’t do drugs, they’ll wreck your life, you’ll never get a job or a house or buy nice things.”"Synonyms: estate, projectScotlandUKcolloquial
5. (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.Internet
6. (UK, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.UK
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan; to manuever.Examples: "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."; "The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek."intransitive
2. (transitive) To plan; to contrive; to manuever.Examples: "He schemed a plot. He made use of the hotel's stationery to write a letter."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary