scheme /ˈskim/
 方案,計劃,組合,系統,圖解,摘要,詭計,陰謀(vt.)(vi.)計劃,設計,圖謀,策劃


 scheme /ˈskɪm/ 名詞
 設計,計劃,圖,圖解,綱要,方案,綱要概略,規劃


 scheme
 計策; 方案


 scheme
 籌畫 方案


 Scheme n.
 1. A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
    The appearance and outward scheme of things.   --Locke.
    Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity.   --Atterbury.
    Arguments . . . sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy.   --J. Edwards.
    The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.   --Macaulay.
 2. A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.
    The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.   --Swift.
 3. Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.
    To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France.   --South.
 4. Astrol. A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
    A blue silk case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity.   --Sir W. Scott.
 Syn: -- Plan; project; contrivance; purpose; device; plot.
 Usage: Scheme, Plan. Scheme and plan are subordinate to design; they propose modes of carrying our designs into effect. Scheme is the least definite of the two, and lies more in speculation. A plan is drawn out into details with a view to being carried into effect. As schemes are speculative, they often prove visionary; hence the opprobrious use of the words schemer and scheming. Plans, being more practical, are more frequently carried into effect.
 He forms the well-concerted scheme of mischief;
 'T is fixed, 't is done, and both are doomed to death.   --Rowe.
 Artists and plans relieved my solemn hours;
 I founded palaces, and planted bowers.   --Prior.


 Scheme, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schemed p. pr. & vb. n. Scheming.] To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
    That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction.   --G. Stuart.


 Scheme, v. i. To form a scheme or schemes.

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 scheme
      n 1: an elaborate and systematic plan of action [syn: strategy]
      2: a statement that evades the question by cleverness or
         trickery [syn: dodge, dodging]
      3: a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising
         a unified whole; "a vast system of production and
         distribution and consumption keep the country going" [syn:
          system]
      4: an internal representation of the world; an organization of
         concepts and actions that can be revised by new
         information about the world [syn: schema]
      5: a schematic or preliminary plan [syn: outline, schema]
      v 1: form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner [syn: intrigue,
            connive]
      2: devise a system or form a scheme for