Word Finder - map

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A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.

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A graphical representation of the relationships between objects, components or themes.

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A function.

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Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.

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(old-fashioned) The face.

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An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.

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I don't want to play this map again!

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To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography.

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(followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.

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(followed by a "to" phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond.

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To inform someone of a particular idea.

He frowned at the map before him.

He needed a written map to perform simple chores like finding a grocery store or getting around Boston.

The map had been altered.

Fred grabbed for the map and began searching.

Clara was putting the finishing touches on her map when Megan approached the counter.

Several were in Southern California while two blue dots – the one in her cell phone and the other in a shoe – appeared on the map in Texas.

The micro would allow her to map a route west, and she could put on his tactical clothing and mask and leave the tent.

He turned to face the map again.

His face was a road map of emotion, traveling from puzzled, to comprehensive and then on to frustration.

I can't believe he thought I'd have a map to Baratto just lying around.

The helo left them at Texarkana, the southernmost point on their map, before missile fire from the other side of the river erupted.

She explained the map and Megan tucked it in her pocket.

One could see that he wished to pass through the rooms as quickly as possible, finish with the bows and greetings, and sit down to business in front of a map, where he would feel at home.

The place must be on a map.

I'll draw you a map while you make your phone call.

Dean tossed aside the map and papers and flopped down on the living room sofa, startling Mrs. Lincoln.

The small states, Lucca and San Marino, completed the map of Italy.

I have a map.

Brady studied the map.

Two more turns were negotiated and marked and in spite of their slow progress, according to the map they were nearing their goal.

The railway map of the state thus has roughly the appearance of a gridiron.

As soon as Prince Andrew began to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, Prince Dolgorukov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not at the map, but at Prince Andrew's face.

Sure. I can compare Martha's drawing with a map and get the location.

He pointed on the map.

His eyes took in the map.

From this point of view it is not sufficient, in attempting to map out the earths surface into regions of vegetation, to have regard alone to adaptations to physical conditions.

It is concerned with the land-surface, and this is more symmetrically disposed than would at first sight appear from a glance at a map of the world.

The problems of geography had been lightened by the destructive criticism of the French cartographer D'Anville (who had purged the map of the world of the last remnants of traditional fact unverified by modern observations) and rendered richer by the dawn of the new era of scientific travel, when Kant brought his logical powers to bear upon them.

Far greater interest attaches to the so-called AngloSaxon Map of the World in the British Museum (Cotton MSS.), where it is bound up in a codex which also contains a copy of the Periegesis of Priscianus.

Map and Periegesis are FIG.

More than half the nomenclature of the map is derived from Orosius, an annotated Anglo-Saxon version of which had been produced by King Alfred (871-901).

The map or diagram of which Leonardo Dati in his poem on the Sphere (Della Spera) wrote in 1422 " un T dentre a uno 0 mostra it disegno " (a T within an 0 shows the design) is one of the most persistent types among the circular or wheel maps of the world.

The earliest delineation of the description has already been referred to as the AngloSaxon map of the world.

Of far greater importance is the map seen in Hereford Cathedral.

A map essentially identical with that of Hereford, but larger - its diameter is 156 cm.

This is the oldest original of a map in existence, for it dates back to the 6th century.

It may have been a map of this kind which accounts for Ptolemy's moderate exaggerations of the size of Taprobana (Ceylon).

Nor can Idrisi's map of the world, were drawn at intervals of zams, supposed to be equal to three hours' sail.

See sketch map in article WAG RAM.

Pytheas certainly had one merit which distinguished him from almost all his contemporaries - he was a good astronomer, and was one of the first who made observations for the determination of latitudes, among others that of his native place Massilia, which he fixed with remarkable accuracy; his result, which was within a few miles of the truth, was adopted by Ptolemy, and became the basis of the Ptolemaic map of the western Mediterranean.

Expect solutions in the future to come from countries you couldn't find on a map today.

The trend of modern critical opinion is towards accepting Map as the author of a Lancelot romance, which formed the basis for later developments, and there is a growing tendency to identify this hypothetical original Lancelot with the source of the German Lanzelet.

Many insects, however, can readily extend their range, and a careful study of their distribution leads us to discriminate between faunas rather than definitely to map regions.

A Russian traveller, Peter Kalm, in his work on America, published in 1748, showed on a map the oil springs of Pennsylvania, and about the same time Raicevich referred to the " liquid bitumen " of Rumania.

The Council of the Indies claimed that since 1510 fleets and ships had gone to Florida, and Florida is shown on the Cantino map of 1502.

An interesting confirmation of Dorpfeld's view is furnished by the map of Guillet and Coronelli, published in 1672, in which the Enneacrunus is depicted as a well with a stream of running water in the neighbourhood of the Pnyx.

The words map and chart are derived from mappa and charta, the former being the Latin for napkin or cloth, the latter for papyrus or parchment.

Mappa mundi was the medieval Latin for a map of the world which the ancients called Tabula totius orbis descriptionem Topographical maps and plans are drawn on a scale sufficiently large to enable the draughtsman to show most objects on a scale true to nature.

In the former case the cartographer is merely called upon to reduce and generalize the information given by his originals, to make a judicious selection of place names, and to take care that the map is not overcrowded with names and details.

Far more difficult is his task where no surveys are available, and the map has to be compiled from a variety of sources.