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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

A plot en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The primary plot of a piece of literature, television, etc., contrasted with the secondary B plot.
    • Shows have an A plot and a subsidiary, or B plot... 2001, Robert Keith Sawyer, Creating Conversations: Improvisation in Everyday Discourse:
    • The primary function of the A plot is to initiate the first movement and complication in the B plot and eventually absorb the B plot once it is resolved. 1966, Blaze Odell Bonazza, Shakespeare's Early Comedies: A Structural Analysis:

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A plots Number=Plur lexicographic