Scheme in a sentence as a noun

Flipping tech startups is the hot new get rich quick scheme.

He ran a pump and dump scheme to defraud investors.

If buffer is equal to url's scheme's default port, set buffer to the empty string.

The idea that Python is so slow that it's confusing TCP sounds wrong to me. I think it's more likely that your packet capture scheme is slow.

Many smaller banks use whatever password scheme the banking software service provider has as its default.

Scheme in a sentence as a verb

A victory there doesn't only screw over GoDaddy, which is in the grand scheme of things not even a secondary target--its only actual goal is to make a quick buck from the feds.

Maybe there's a scheme here to prevent good DRM by flooding the market with highly inflated impressive-sounding claims attached to laughable security.

The other tenderers were accustomed to dividing the work up amongst themselves at inflated prices, they didn't even know who we were and we received a lot of abuse for breaking up their little scheme.

Based on a single implementation, Oracle would bypass this entire patent scheme and claim ownership over any and all ways to carry out methods for 95 years without any vetting by the Copyright Office of the type required for patents.

Scheme definitions

noun

an elaborate and systematic plan of action

See also: strategy

noun

a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

See also: dodge dodging

noun

a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"

See also: system

noun

an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world

See also: schema

noun

a schematic or preliminary plan

See also: outline schema

verb

form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

See also: intrigue connive

verb

devise a system or form a scheme for