scheme
/skiːm/ noun B2- 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. · April 29, 1694, Robert South, A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France
- 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).
- Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
Plural schemes
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Bennet was forced to submit to a separation, which, as her husband by no means entered into her scheme of their all going to Newcastle, was likely to continue at least a twelvemonth.
King of France, who was formidable still in spite of his recent reverses; and it was necessary, therefore, to have recourse to some profitable scheme, which was a matter of great difficulty in the impoverished condition of exhausted Italy.
In this dress I will go to the Christmas parties, where all the young fellows will propose to me, but I will toss my head and refuse them every one.” At this moment she tossed her head in unison with her thoughts, when down fell the milk pail to the ground, and all her imaginary schemes perished in a moment.
“I don’t think so,” answered the other; “he’s too stupid to imagine such a scheme.
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