story vs plot

story and plot both are nouns.

story is not a verb while plot is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
story	Yes	No	No	No
plot	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, plot is a hyponym of story; that is, plot is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than story:

story: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
plot: the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.

Other hyponyms of story include adventure story, heroic tale, mystery, mystery story, whodunit, love story, romance, fable, legend, short story, allegory, apologue, fable, parable, myth, parable.

story (noun)	plot (noun)
a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale	a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events	the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
a short account of the news	a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
a trivial lie	a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
a record or narrative description of past events

story (verb)	plot (verb)
	plan secretly, usually something illegal
	make a plot of
	make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
	devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)

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