Definitions for scheme

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scheme scheme

Spelling: [skeem]

IPA: /skim/

Scheme is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in scheme (ceehms).

Definitions for scheme

noun

1. a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; project.
2. an underhand plot; intrigue.
3. a visionary or impractical project.
4. a body or system of related doctrines, theories, etc.:
5. any system of correlated things, parts, etc., or the manner of its arrangement.
6. a plan, program, or policy officially adopted and followed, as by a government or business:
7. an analytical or tabular statement.
8. a diagram, map, or the like.
9. an astrological diagram of the heavens.

verb (used with object)

1. to devise as a scheme; plan; plot; contrive.

verb (used without object)

1. to lay schemes; devise plans; plot.

Origin of scheme

1545-55; Medieval Latin schēma (stem schēmat-) Greek schêma form, figure

Examples for scheme

They catalogued Dick's virtues, and then Viviette unfolded her scheme.

Besides the mendacity of it all, such a scheme misses the obvious truth that “the audience has a mind of its own.”

The laughter and talk were as little subdued as the scheme of the rooms.

Because the fact of the matter is the Today show part is really, in a way, the smallest part in the great 34-hour scheme of it.

He went to Garson yesterday with a scheme to rob your house.

It after wards appears that the scheme of Rumi-naui was one of treachery.

Retailers were hammered by the scheme because checks and balances were scant in 2012, when the eBay grifting peaked.

On the level, now, do you think you could get away with that young Gilder scheme you've been planning?

The scheme has been condemned by civil liberties groups and queried by the National Association of Head Teachers.

This is a new spin on a GOP scheme to create a more favorable Republican playing field for the 2016 presidential election.