Map
[mæp]
Definition
(noun.) a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
(verb.) to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets).
(verb.) explore or survey for the purpose of making a map; 'We haven't even begun to map the many galaxies that we know exist'.
(verb.) make a map of; show or establish the features of details of; 'map the surface of Venus'.
(verb.) depict as if on a map; 'sorrow was mapped on the mother's face'.
(verb.) plan, delineate, or arrange in detail; 'map one's future'.
(verb.) locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences; 'map the genes'.
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Definition
(n.) A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it.
(n.) Anything which represents graphically a succession of events, states, or acts; as, an historical map.
(v. t.) To represent by a map; -- often with out; as, to survey and map, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Chart.
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Definition
n. a representation of the surface of the earth or of part of it on a plane surface: a similar drawing of the stars in the sky.—v.t. to draw in the form of a map as the figure of any portion of land: to describe clearly:—pr.p. map′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. mapped.—ns. Map′-meas′urer an instrument for measuring distances other than in straight lines on a map; Map′-mount′er one who mounts maps or backs them with canvas and fixes them on rollers &c.; Map′pery (Shak.) the art of planning and designing maps; Map′pist.—Map out to mark down the chief points clearly.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a map, or studying one, denotes a change will be contemplated in your business. Some disappointing things will occur, but much profit also will follow the change. To dream of looking for one, denotes that a sudden discontent with your surroundings will inspire you with new energy, and thus you will rise into better conditions. For a young woman, this dream denotes that she will rise into higher spheres by sheer ambition.
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Examples
- Dorothea set earnestly to work, bending close to her map, and uttering the names in an audible, subdued tone, which often got into a chime. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To blow the bridge is nothing, Golz had said, the lamplight on his scarred, shaved head, pointing with a pencil on the big map. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is almost as good as a map. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Five Nations of the Iroquois (see map, p. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The state of affairs in North America in 1750 is indicated very clearly by a map we have adapted from one in Robinson's _Medieval and Modern Times_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Professors Kirchhoff and Bunsen map Solar Spectrum, and establish Spectrum Analysis. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Andr?Marty looked away from him and back to the map. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Peruvians also got to making maps and the use of counting-frames. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A proposal for correcting modern maps. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Let four maps of Poland tell the tale. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 1815 he completed an extensive geological map of England, on which all subsequent geological maps have been modeled. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Hans had shown it all to him on his maps of the battle. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Engineer and staff officers were put to the dangerous duty of supplying the place of both maps and guides. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was a large long room with some large maps in it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The sand hills, some of them almost inaccessible to foot-passengers, were surveyed off and mapped into fifty vara lots--a vara being a Spanish yard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This territory, the geography of which was not known to us at the close of the rebellion, is now as well mapped as any portion of our country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By 1887, not only a second but a third district had been mapped out, the whole extending from Eighteenth to Forty-fifth Street. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Egyptian priests had mapped out the stars into the constellations, and divided up the zodiac into twelve signs, by 3000 B.C. . H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These black lines were, in 1814, carefully mapped by a German optician, named Fraunhofer, and were found by him to be 576 in number. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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