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emplots

emplots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of emplot.

Meaning of emplot

Verb

emplot (third-person singular simple present emplots, present participle emplotting, simple past and past participle emplotted)

  1. To place an event in the context of a plot or story-line to make a narrative.
    • One thing is, however, certain: Through the early rudimentary translations from the Sanskrit, India was emplotted by the West. By this I mean that incomplete projections from a variety of sources were given a voice defined through narrative, and received the authority of signification.1991, Dorothy Matilda Figueira, Translating the Orient, page 8

Questions about emplots

What is emplots the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Emplots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of emplot.

Words near emplots in the dictionary

  1. emplores
  2. emploring
  3. emplot
  4. emplotment
  5. emplotments
  6. emplots
  7. emplotted
  8. emplotting
  9. employ
  10. employ a steam engine to crack a nut
  11. employ'd

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Adapted from Wiktionary: emplots (page history and authors); emplot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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