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      scheme
      noun
      A systematic plan of future action.
      A plot or secret, devious plan.
      A chart or diagram of a system or object.
      An orderly combination of related parts.
      (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
      (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
      (UK, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
      (mathematics) 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).
      (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate.
      A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.
      (rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
      verb
      (transitive) To plan; to contrive; to manuever.
      (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan; to manuever.
      Roots
      echeinschem- · Greek · to have, hold, bear (in a certain state)
      Synonyms for scheme
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      Words related to scheme
      machinatornschemerncomplottingvpreplanconniveryadjschematizevscamncompassingnswindlenlegitimismnconceptnmastermindingvcolluderv

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