c Bedlam booby hatch crazy house cuckoo's nest funny farm funny house loony bin madhouse nut house nuthouse sanatorium snake pit | pejorative terms for an insane asylum |
cargo hatch | hatch opening into the cargo compartment |
escape hatch | hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency |
hatch | a movable barrier covering a hatchway |
hatch hatching crosshatch hachure | shading consisting of multiple crossing lines |
plot element | a component or element of the plot of a story |
plot secret plan game | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal), they concocted a plot to discredit the governor, I saw through his little game from the start |
Gunpowder Plot | a conspiracy inin England to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament to avenge the persecution of Catholics in England, led by Guy Fawkes |
plot | the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc., the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal |
storyline plot line | the plot of a book or play or film |
plot | a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object |
plot plot of land plot of ground patch | a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation, a bean plot, a cabbage patch, a briar patch |
hatch hatching | the production of young from an egg |
brood hatch cover incubate | sit on (eggs), Birds brood, The female covers the eggs |
hatch | emerge from the eggs, young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch |
plot | plan secretly, usually something illegal, They plotted the overthrow of the government |
plat plot | make a plat of, Plat the town |
prompt inspire instigate | serve as the inciting cause of, She prompted me to call my relatives |
incite instigate set off stir up | provoke or stir up, incite a riot, set off great unrest among the people |
hatch | draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper, hatch the sheet |
think up think of dream up hatch concoct | devise or invent, He thought up a plan to get rich quickly, no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software |
plot | devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet), the writer is plotting a new novel |
hatch | inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating |
diagram plot | make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed |