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chart 
chart
English
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
- (General American) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑɹt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tʃɑːt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
- Homophone: chaat (non-rhotic)
Noun
chart (plural charts)
- A map.
- A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
- A navigator's map.
- A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.
- A tabular presentation of data; a table.
- 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.
- 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?
- A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
- I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.
- A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
- They're at the top of the charts again this week.
- A written deed; a charter.
- (differential geometry, topology) Synonym of coordinate chart.
Derived terms
terms derived from chart (noun)
- alignment chart
- ancestral chart
- bar chart
- birth chart
- bottle chart
- Bristol stool chart
- candle chart
- candlestick chart
- chartbook
- chart-caller
- chart caller
- chart datum
- charted
- chart house
- charticle
- chartjunk
- chartless
- chart music
- chart of accounts
- chartometer
- chart plotter
- chartroom
- chart table
- chart-topper
- chart-topping
- chartwork
- chip chart
- control chart
- coxcomb chart
- E chart
- eye chart
- flip chart
- flipchart
- flow chart
- funnel chart
- Gantt chart
- H-S chart
- ICE chart
- Kagi chart
- knitting chart
- lap chart
- lap-chart
- Macbeth chart
- Marimekko chart
- Moody chart
- multi-vari chart
- music chart
- natal chart
- nautical chart
- navigational chart
- Nolan chart
- off the chart
- organisational chart
- organisation chart
- organizational chart
- organization chart
- org chart
- PERT chart
- pie chart
- PMI chart
- polar bar chart
- pop chart
- Pournelle chart
- psychrometric chart
- radar chart
- record chart
- RICE chart
- ring chart
- sea chart
- seating chart
- Smith chart
- Snellen chart
- spaghetti chart
- spie chart
- star chart
- step chart
- sunburst chart
- top the charts
- tumbling E chart
- Vosem chart
- wall chart
- wallchart
- weather chart
Descendants
Translations
map — see map
non-narrative presentation of data
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ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music
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coordinate chart — see coordinate chart
table — see table
diagram — see diagram
graph — see graph
Verb
chart (third-person singular simple present charts, present participle charting, simple past and past participle charted)
- (transitive) To draw a chart or map of.
- chart the seas
- (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.
- (transitive) To record systematically.
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
draw a chart or map
draw or figure out a route or plan
Related terms
Anagrams
Irish
Verb
chart
- analytic past indicative of cart
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ, cognate with Polish chart, Czech chrt, Ukrainian хорт (xort), Serbo-Croatian hȑt.
Pronunciation
Noun
chart m animal
- greyhound (lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing)
Declension
Declension of chart
Hypernyms
- pjas m (“dog”)
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
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
chart m animal (female equivalent charcica, diminutive charcik)
Declension
Declension of chart
Derived terms
adjective
Related terms
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
Noun
chart m (plural charts)