PLOTLINES Synonyms

• electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field

• a continuous portion of a circle

• something curved in shape

• form an arch or curve

• act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining

• a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation

• the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful

• a district that has been developed to serve some purpose

• a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

• processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible

• (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated

• a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

• consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story

• an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work)

• a setting for a work of art or literature

• a postulated sequence of possible events

• the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time

• a condition or position in which you find yourself

• a complex or critical or unusual difficulty

• physical position in relation to the surroundings

• a job in an organization

• the plot of a book or play or film

• A plot within a story, subsidiary to the main plot.

• A subdivision of a plot of land, especially one used for an agricultural experiment.