Chart
[tʃɑːt] or [tʃɑrt]
Definition
(noun.) a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea.
(noun.) a visual display of information.
(verb.) plan in detail; 'Bush is charting a course to destroy Saddam Hussein'.
(verb.) make a chart of; 'chart the territory'.
Editor: Sasha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
(n.) A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
(n.) A written deed; a charter.
(v. t.) To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.
Editor: Upton
Definition
n. a marine or hydrographical map exhibiting a portion of a sea or other water with the islands coasts of contiguous land soundings currents &c: an outline-map or a tabular statement giving information of any kind.—adjs. Chartā′ceous; Chart′less.
Editor: Ramon
Examples
- The chart is drawn on the lower and ground side of a ground glass plate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He unfolded the rough chart, which I here reproduce, GRAPHIC and he laid it across Holmes's knee. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- That's all right for the chart. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in Lat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The pillar mounting allows of ready removal of chart attachment when it is not desired to use the same. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I'll go and have another look at the chart. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He sprang to his feet, his face turned livid with fear, and he thrust into his breast the chart-like paper which he had been originally studying. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But the content of this outline that we have drawn here in a few diagrams and charts cannot but touch the imagination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But both in the matter of our time charts and the three maps we have given of prehistoric geography there is necessarily much speculative matter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had no charts, and it was a hazardous thing to sail into the shallow water in a bad light. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The canal channel throughout is very accurately charted, fully equipped with aids to navigation, and governed by explicit rules with which the pilots, of course, are thoroughly familiar. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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