ETYM AS. caru, cearu; akin to OS. kara sorrow, Goth. kara, OHG chara, lament, and perh. to Greek gerys voice. Not akin to cure. Related to Chary.
1. A cause for feeling concern.
2. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; SYN. maintenance, upkeep.
3. Attention and management implying responsibility for safety; SYN. charge, tutelage, guardianship.
4. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something; SYN. attention, aid, tending.
ETYM AS. handlung.
1. Manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something.
2. The action of touching with the hands or the skillful use of the hands; SYN. manipulation.
1. The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
2. A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal); SYN. secret plan.
3. A small area of planted ground; SYN. plot of ground, patch.
4. A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object.
The storyline in a novel, play, film, or other work of fiction. A plot is traditionally a scheme of connected events.
Novelists in particular have at times tried to subvert or ignore the reader's expectation of a causally linked story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, with no loose ends. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf wrote novels that explore the minutiae of a character's experience, rather than telling a tale. However, the tradition that the novel must tell a story, whatever else it may do, survives for the most part intact.
English novelist E M Forster defined it thus: The king died and then the queen died. The king died and then the queen died of grief at the king's death. The first is the beginning of a series of events; the second is the beginning of a plot.
ETYM Greek.
(Medicine) The act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.).
ETYM Cf. French traitement. Related to Treat.
1. A manner of dealing with something artistically.
2. Care by procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury.
3. The management of someone or something; or; SYN. handling.
ETYM Cf. French approche. Related to Approach.
(Irregular plural: approaches).
1. The event of one object coming closer to another; SYN. approaching.
2. The act of drawing spatially closer to something; SYN. approaching, coming.
3. The temporal property of becoming nearer in time; SYN. approaching, coming.
4. A close approximation.
5. A formulation adopted in tackling a problem; SYN. attack, plan of attack.
6. A relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green; SYN. approach shot.