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English

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Etymology

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). See charter, card, carte.

Pronunciation

Noun

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chart (plural charts)

  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.
      • 2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:
        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 charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
    3. A graph.
      • 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:
        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 example of glossolalia?
    4. A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
      Hypernym: medical record (formerly synonymous; loosely still so)
      I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.
    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. (differential geometry, topology) Synonym of coordinate chart.

Derived terms

terms derived from chart (noun)

Descendants

  • Japanese: チャート (chāto)
  • Korean: 차트 (chateu)
  • Swahili: chati
  • Welsh: siart

Translations

Verb

chart (third-person singular simple present charts, present participle charting, simple past and past participle charted)

  1. (transitive) To draw a chart or map of.
    chart the seas
  2. (transitive) 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.
    • 1991 May 4, Michael Bronski, “One Man's 'Poison'”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
      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 comfort.
  3. (transitive) To record systematically.
    1. To enter (medical information) into a medical record.
      Did you chart the urine output yet?
  4. (intransitive, of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
    The song has charted for 15 weeks!
    The band first charted in 1994.

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Irish

Verb

chart

  1. analytic past indicative of cart

Lower Sorbian

chart

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ, cognate with Polish chart, Czech chrt, Ukrainian хорт (xort), Serbo-Croatian hȑt.

Pronunciation

Noun

chart m anim

  1. greyhound (lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing)

Declension

Hypernyms

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “chart”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “chart”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Polish

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chart

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

chart m animal (female equivalent charcica, diminutive charcik)

  1. greyhound; sighthound

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
nouns

Further reading

  • chart in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • chart in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English chart, from French charte.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɾt/
  • Rhymes: -aɾt
  • Syllabification: chart

Noun

chart m (plural charts)

  1. chart