map


Definition: Meaning of, map in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / map /

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map maps
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  1. a drawing of a particular area for example a city or country, which shows its main features, such as its roads, rivers, mountains etc
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  2. a drawing of an area showing some kind of special feature, for example the type of rocks, weather, population etc [=  chart]
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  3. put something on the map to make a place famous
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  4. off the map informal a long way from any large town
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
map mapped mapped
Present Participle Third Person Singular
mapping maps
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  1. to make a map of a particular area
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  2. to discover or show information about something, especially about its shape or arrangement, or how it moves or works
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map used in phrases

  • Ordnance Survey map (noun)
    1. a map which shows all the roads, paths, hills etc of an area in detail
  • Web Map Server (noun)
    1. a computer program that produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information
  • Web Map Service (noun)
    1. a computer program that produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information
  • choropleth map (noun)
    1. a map that uses graded differences in shading or colour or the placing of symbols inside defined areas on the map in order to indicate the average values of some property or quantity in those areas
  • contour map (noun)
    1. a map having contour lines through points of equal elevation
  • equal-area map projection (noun)
    1. a map projection in which quadrilaterals formed by meridians and parallels have an area on the map proportional to their area on the globe
  • genetic map (noun)
    1. graphical representation of the arrangement of genes on a chromosome
  • map collection (noun)
    1. a collection of maps in book form
  • map maker (noun)
    1. a person who makes maps
  • map projection (noun)
    1. a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude
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map used in phrasal verbs

  • map onto (phrasal verb)
    1. map something onto something to connect one thing to another thing, for example as a way of understanding its meaning or structure
  • map out (phrasal verb)
    1. to plan in detail how something will happen
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