More definitions of "scheme":
- (noun): An internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world.
Synonyms: schema
- (verb): Devise a system or form a scheme for.
- (noun): A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.
Synonyms: system
Famous quotes containing the word scheme:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That ostracism, both political and moral, has
Its place in the twentieth-century scheme of things....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people’s office.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
“Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)