PLOTTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plotter mean? 

• PLOTTER (noun)
  The noun PLOTTER has 4 senses:

1. a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action

2. a clerk who marks data on a chart

3. a member of a conspiracy

4. an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures

  Familiarity information: PLOTTER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLOTTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A planner who draws up a personal scheme of action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

plotter; schemer

Hypernyms ("plotter" is a kind of...):

contriver; deviser; planner (a person who makes plans)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plotter"):

angler (a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage)

politician (a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways)

Derivation:

plot (plan secretly, usually something illegal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A clerk who marks data on a chart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

mapper; plotter

Hypernyms ("plotter" is a kind of...):

clerk (an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts))

Derivation:

plot (make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A member of a conspiracy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coconspirator; conspirator; machinator; plotter

Hypernyms ("plotter" is a kind of...):

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)

Instance hyponyms:

Fawkes; Guy Fawkes (English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606))

Oates; Titus Oates (English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705))

Holonyms ("plotter" is a member of...):

confederacy; conspiracy (a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("plotter" is a kind of...):

instrument (a device that requires skill for proper use)

Domain category:

computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

Derivation:

plot (make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed)

 Context examples 

The mallet hand of Edward, however, had shattered all the schemes and wiles of the plotter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)