map
noun/mæp/
Слово англійською: map
Переклад map українською: карта
Детальний опис
- a drawing or plan of the earth’s surface or part of it, showing countries, towns, rivers, etc.
- a map of France
- a street map of Miami
- a map of the area/region/world/route
- to read a/the map (= understand the information on a map)
- large-scale maps
- on a/the map Can you find Black Hill on the map?
- to be marked/plotted/shown on a map
- I'll draw you a map of how to get to my house.
- Click here to download a map.
- an interactive map
Wordfindersee also Ordnance Survey, relief map, road map- climate
- earth
- equator
- equinox
- hemisphere
- International Date Line
- latitude
- map
- planet
- tropic
Wordfinder- compass
- globe
- GPS
- grid
- key
- latitude
- map
- navigate
- reference
- scale
- a diagram to show the positions of things over an area
- an electron density map
- a diagram to show the position of genes on a chromosome
- a physical and genetic map of the entire human genome
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from medieval Latin mappa mundi, literally ‘sheet of the world’, from Latin mappa ‘sheet, napkin’ + mundi ‘of the world’ (genitive of mundus).
Idioms
all over the map
- (North American English, informal) lacking organization; in a confused state
- Oil prices were all over the map last week, but they seem to be more stable now.
off the map
- (of a place) very far away or remote
- Although the town was completely off the map, I was glad that I made the effort to visit.
put somebody/something on the map
- to make somebody/something famous or important
- This chicken dish put the chef firmly on the map.
- The exhibition has helped put the city on the map.
wipe somebody/something off the face of the earth | wipe something off the map
- to destroy or remove somebody/something completely