Scheme

Look up Scheme, scheme, or schemer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Scheme or The Scheme may refer to:

• Scheme (programming language), a minimalist, multi-paradigm dialect of Lisp
• Scheme (mathematics), a concept in algebraic geometry
• Scheme (linguistics), a figure of speech that changes a sentence's structure
• Scam, an attempt to swindle, as in scheming and plotting
• Google Schemer

Entertainment

• The Scheme (1988)- an action role-playing game for the PC-8801, Quest Corporation
• The Scheme (TV series), a BBC Scotland television-documentary series
• Richard Fisk Schemer (comics), a Marvel Comics villain turned antihero

See also

• A services-provision "plan" - a contract for the provision of a service
  • A collective investment scheme or investment fund, involving many people investing money together
• URI scheme, the outermost part of internet URIs
• Color scheme, a set of colours chosen to be used together in some media
• Numbering scheme, an agreed-upon method of assigning nominal numbers to entities
• Rhyme scheme, the pattern of rhyming lines in poems and lyrics
• Get-rich-quick scheme, a plan to acquire high rates of return for a small investment. The term "get rich quick" has characterised shady investments since at least the early 1900s
• Ponzi scheme, a scam paying investors returns from their own or others' money (rather than from profits)
• Pyramid scheme, a non-sustainable business model involving the exchange of money - primarily for enrolling other people
• Housing scheme, a Scottish term for a council housing development