SUBPLOT Synonyms

• a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)

• a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation

• the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.

• a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object

• plan secretly, usually something illegal

• make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed

• make a plot of

• devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)

• the plot of a book or play or film

• the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

• a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work

• (music) melodic subject of a musical composition

• an essay (especially one written as an assignment)

• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

• provide with a particular theme or motive

• a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving

• any long object resembling a thin line

• the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together

• the raised helical rib going around a screw

• to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

• pass a thread through

• remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string

• pass through or into

• thread on or as if on a string

• A subplot; a plot that is not the main plot of a story.

• A secret scheme or trick.