The activity or practice of making secret or underhanded plans.

(derogatory) Tending to scheme; forming underhand plots.

present participle of scheme

plural of scheming

(rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words. / (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

(intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan. / (transitive) To plan; to contrive.

simple past tense and past participle of scheme

A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.

plural of scheme

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scheme