What is scheme?

More definitions of "scheme":

• (noun): A schematic or preliminary plan.
  Synonyms: outline, schema

• (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

• (noun): An elaborate and systematic plan of action.
  Synonyms: strategy

• (verb): Devise a system or form a scheme for.

• (noun): A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery.
  Synonyms: dodge, dodging

• (verb): Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner.
  Synonyms: intrigue, connive

Famous quotes containing the word scheme:

“We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)

“I have no scheme about it,—no designs on men at all; and, if I had, my mode would be to tempt them with the fruit, and not with the manure. To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives?—and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared, to live more worthily and profitably?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)