map
IPA: mˈæp
noun
- A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
- A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
- (mathematics) A function.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
- (UK, dated) The face.
- (board games, video games) An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
- (computing) Synonym of associative array.
- (aviation) Initialism of missed approach point. [(aviation) The point during descent at which a pilot must initiate a go-around maneuver if the runway is not in clear sight.]
- (travel) Initialism of modified American plan, a hotel rate that included accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but not lunch. [(travel) a hotel rate that includes accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but not lunch.]
- (neurology) Initialism of microtubule-associated protein.
- Initialism of modified atmosphere packaging.
- (medicine) Initialism of mean arterial pressure.
- Acronym of methyl-acetylene propadiene.
- (military, attributive) Initialism of multiple aim point.
- (euphemistic) Initialism of minor-attracted person.. [(nonstandard) A pedophile (including nepiophiles), hebephile, or ephebophile.]
- Initialism of Mexican-American Princess; overly materialistic and selfish young Mexican-American woman.
verb
- (transitive) To represent by means of a map.
- (transitive) To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.
- (intransitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond.
- (transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
- (mathematics, transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
- (transitive, computing) To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.
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Examples of "map" in Sentences
- Thanks for the kudos on the map.
- The map in the article is inaccurate.
- The map is extraordinarily necessary.
- The map and the dates are incongruent.
- The map in the infobox is exaggerated.
- Why isn't the map at the top not the map of the zenith
- The map is made in accordance with the map from the original work.
- The map is assembled by interlocking the tabs at the edge of the map.
- Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.
- One centimeter on the map represents one kilometer of distance on the ground.
- # translate atom map to the clone my @m = map {$new_mol - > by_id ($_ - > id)} @map;
- The blurred line bisecting the map just below figures 35 and 36 is one of the well worn folds in the map_.
- "The substance of the interview was telegraphed," said Stamfordham, "but not the map -- _not the map_," he said emphatically.
- Placing the map in proper relation to the ground so that points of the compass coincide on map and ground is called _orienting the map_.
- (Roger Scruton - Times) lcarroli: following @openstreetmap - an editable map of the world. #map mystic23: "The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
- If Mr Stæhlin was not grossly imposed upon, what could induce him to publish a map so singularly erroneous, and in which many of these islands are jumbled together in regular confusion, without the least regard to truth; and yet he is pleased to call it _a very accurate little map_. [
- But here, art is art; and like the man who was accused of betraying another into a profitless speculation by drawing streams on his map, when the land was without any, and who defended himself by declaring no one ever saw a _map_ without streams, the French artists appear to think every one should be represented in his ideal character, let him be as _bourgeois_ as he may in truth.