Phrase Hound found 22 phrases and 15 compound words that contain scheme. The most common are listed below. Open scheme in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 22
- colour schemea colourway
- Color scheme
- classification schemeThe descriptive information for an arrangement or division of objects into groups based on characteristics which the objects have in common.
- Pension scheme
- pyramid schemeAn illicit money-making investment scheme in which early investors are paid primarily or wholly from the funds of later investors, and which eventually collapses to the detriment of the most recent participants.
- scheme theoryUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scheme, theory.
- scheme of studiesA timetabled academic curriculum.
- scheme of thingsSynonym of grand scheme: The totality of the situation approached objectively; the big picture.
- group schemeA group object that is an object in a category of schemes; a scheme that has certain properties that generalise the concept of group.
- Mississippi SchemeA financial scheme devised by John Law in 18th-century France.
- Ponzi schemeA fraudulent scheme where earlier investors are paid with the money taken from new investors, giving the impression that the scheme is a viable investment.
- pilot schemeAn experiment carried out to test a new idea or concept before full-scale introduction; a pilot study.
- lift schemeA carpool; an arrangement whereby several people travel together in the same car.
- grand schemeThe totality of the situation approached objectively; the big picture.
- rhyme schemeThe pattern created by the rhymes at the ends of the lines of a stanza of poetry
- collective investment schemeA way of investing money with other people to participate in a wider range of investments than may be feasible for an individual investor, and to share the costs of doing so.
- scheme archAn arch less than a semicircle.
- Horner's schemeSynonym of Horner's method: An algorithm for polynomial evaluation that employs Horner's rule.
- axiom schemeA formula in the language of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.
- affine schemeAn abstract, geometric object in mathematics which generalizes the notion of an affine variety qua domain of a commutative ring of polynomial functions: a space which is the result of a particular construction beginning with an arbitrary …
- scheme archesplural of scheme arch: An arch less than a semicircle.
- grand scheme of thingsSynonym of grand scheme: The totality of the situation approached objectively; the big picture.
Compound words 15
- playschemeA scheme offering recreational activities for children.
- subschemeA subset of a scheme
- multischemeOf or pertaining to more than one scheme.
- schemeySomeone who lives on an urban housing scheme, especially seen as being poor or ill-educated.
- schemistA schemer.
- schemoidA generalization of an association scheme from the point of view of small categories.
- superscheme(mathematics)
- counterschemeA scheme set up in opposition to another; a counterplot.
- geoschemeA geographic scheme of the United Nations that divides the world into countries and territories for the purpose of statistics.
- outschemeTo surpass in scheming.