chart

A map.

Noun

  1. A map.

    1. A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.

    2. A navigator's map.

  2. A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.

    1. A tabular presentation of data; a table.

    2. A diagram.

      • Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical...

    3. A graph.

      • Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an...

    4. A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.

      • I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.

      Hypernyms: medical record[Appendix:Glossary

    5. A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.

      • They're at the top of the charts again this week.
  3. A written deed; a charter.
  4. Synonym of coordinate chart.

    Synonyms: coordinate chart

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French charte (“card, map”), from Late Latin charta (“paper, card, map”), Latin charta (“papyrus, writing”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, thin sheet”). Doublet of card and carte; related to charter.

Forms

charts

Derived

alignment chart ancestral chart bar chart birth chart bottle chart Bristol stool chart candle chart candlestick chart chartbook chartbuster chartbusting chart caller chart-caller chart datum charted charthouse charticle chartism chartist chartjunk chartless chartlike chart music chart of accounts

Verb

  1. To draw a chart or map of.
    • chart the seas
  2. To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
    • Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.
    • We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.
    • The men in "Homo," (and even perhaps Haynes himself) are not looking for acceptance or validation, but a way to chart their own notions of self-determination in a world that makes little sense and offers even less...
  3. To record systematically.

    1. To enter (medical information) into a medical record.

      • Did you chart the urine output yet?
  4. To appear on a hit-recording chart.
    • The song has charted for 15 weeks!
    • The band first charted in 1994.

Forms

charts charting charted

Related

card cartography cartoon cartouche charter Chartist Magna Carta

Derived

chartable outchart rechart