Word Finder - maps

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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.

Han had laid out a few maps on the table near his desk.

They had compared Martha's drawing to the contour maps of the area back at Bird Song and decided this was as close to the general area of the mine that any type of roadway touched.

This great work was begun in July 1708, and the completed maps were presented to the emperor in 1718.

One didn't keep maps of the location of witnesses they were hiding.

His eyes lingered on her before he moved toward the largest of the maps on the wall before him.

The conquest by Venice in 1687 led to the publication of several works in that city, including the descriptions of De la Rue and Fanelli and the maps of Coronelli and others.

The glove compartment contained a registration in the name of World Wide Insurance Company and maps of the east coast states.

Over this country water-courses are shown on maps.

Bacon argued keenly on geographical matters and was a lover of maps, in which he observed and reasoned upon such resemblances as that between the outlines of South America and Africa.

We spent the balance of our time formulating what I should say to Merrill Cooms and pouring over Internet maps.

That, and looking at maps.

Now the boys are out there doing the same damn thing—more maps!

There were rows of grey chairs and several white benches in the rear, a handful of tables next to yawning windows, and a wall of what looked like constellation maps.

A large drawer on the left side of the desk contained files on various branch offices of the company while the drawers on the right, three in all, contained blank paper, company circulars and a few maps.

Although very little of the coast belt is actually swampy, a kind of natural canalization connects many of the rivers at their mouths with each other, though some of these connecting creeks are as yet unmarked on maps.

In 1598 Sebald de Wert, a Dutchman, visited them, and called them the Sebald Islands, a name which they bear on some Dutch maps.

Under the Venetian government Candia, a fortress originally built by the Saracens, and called by them " Khandax," became the seat of government, and not only rose to be the capital and chief city of the island, but actually gave name to it, so that it was called in the official language of Venice " the island of Candia," a designation which from thence passed into modern maps.

Bonaventura (1221-1274) was a diligent student of the Victorines, and in his Itinerarium mentis ad Deum maps.

The above remarks apply more particularly to topographic maps.

Distances such as these can be measured only on a topographical map of a fairly large scale, for on general maps many of the details needed for that purpose can no longer be represented.

If contoured maps are available it is easy to build up a strata-relief, which facilitates the completion of the relief so that it shall be a fair representation of nature, which the strata-relief cannot claim to be.

Those in the Rudimentum novitiarum published at Lubeck in 1475 are from woodcuts, while the maps in the first two editions of Ptolemy published in Italy in 1472 are from copper plates.

Wood engraving kept its ground for a considerable period, especially in Germany, but copper in the end supplanted it, and owing to the beauty and clearness of the maps produced by a combination of engraving and etching it still maintains its ground.

The art of lithography greatly affected the production of maps.

Photographic processes have been utilized not only in reducing maps to a smaller scale, but also for producing stones and plates from which they may be printed.

The manuscript maps intended to be produced by photographic processes upon stone, zinc or aluminium, are drawn on a scale somewhat larger than the scale on which they are to be printed, thus eliminating all those imperfections which are inherent in a pen-drawing.

MacClintock and others - have profited from rough maps drawn for them by Eskimos.

Far superior were the maps found among the semi-civilized Mexicans when the Spainiards first discovered and invaded their country.

Among them were cadastral plans of villages, maps of the provinces of the empire of the Aztecs, of towns and of the coast.

Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, New 4 The great majority of the maps in this work are made by this process.

These were the first relief maps on record.

Lauth and other Egyptologists, and have been referred to as the two most ancient maps in existence.

They can, however, hardly be described as maps, while in age they are surpassed by several cartographical clay tablets discovered in Babylonia.

The maps referred to may have been Assyrian.

Circular maps, however, remained in the popular favour long after their erroneousness had been recognized by the learned.

Dicaearcus of Messana in Sicily, a pupil of Aristotle (326-296 B.C.), is the author of a topographical account of Hellas, with maps, of which only fragments are preserved; he is credited with having estimated the size of the earth, and, as far as known he was the first to draw a parallel across a map. 4 This parallel, or dividing line, called diaphragm (partition) by a commentator, extended due east from the Pillars of Hercules, through the Mediterranean, and along the Taurus and Imaus (Himalaya) to the eastern ocean.

The 26 special maps are drawn on a rectangular projection.

We learn from Cicero, Vitruvius, Seneca, Suetonius, Pliny and others, that the Romans had both general and topographical maps.

Their maps, however, seem to have met the practical requirements of political administration and of military undertakings.

We have to deal thus with three types of these early maps, viz.

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.

T maps of more elaborate design illustrate the MS. copies of Sallust's Bellum jugurthinum; one of these taken from a codex of the 11th century in the Leipzig town library is shown in fig.

The outlines of several medieval maps resemble each other to such an extent that there can be no doubt that they are derived from the same original source.

Similar maps illustrating the Commentaries exist at St Sever (1050), Paris (1203), and Tunis; others are rectangular, the oldest being in Lord Ashburnham's library (970).

On the maps illustrating the encyclopaedic Liber floridus by Lambert, Lambert Liber flori dus 1120 FIG.

Both maps abound in miniature pictures of towns, animals, fabulous beings and other subjects.

Among countries represented on a larger scale on maps, Palestine not unnaturally occupies a prominent place in this age of pilgrimages and crusades (1095-1291).

The maps which accompany St Jerome's translation of the Onomasticon of St Eusebius (388).

Among more recent maps of Palestine, that by Petrus Vesconte (1320) is greatly superior to the earlier maps.

Further materials serviceable to the compilers of maps were supplied by numerous Arabian travellers and geographers, among FIG.