scheme.
An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
Meaning & usage
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 systematic plan of future action.
A plot or secret, devious plan.
Her brain is continually fermenting new schemes.
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.
Where this word comes from
From late Middle English scheame, from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.
To plot, or contrive a plan; to maneuver.
To plan; to contrive; to maneuver.
Where this word comes from
From late Middle English scheame, from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.
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