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 1, 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.
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- 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?
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- 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
- candlestick chart
- chartbook
- chart datum
- charted
- chart house
- charticle
- chartjunk
- chartless
- chart of accounts
- chartometer
- chart plotter
- chartroom
- chart table
- chart-topping
- chip chart
- control chart
- E chart
- eye chart
- flipchart
- flip chart
- flow chart
- funnel chart
- Gantt chart
- knitting chart
- Moody chart
- multi-vari chart
- music 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
- pop chart
- Pournelle chart
- psychrometric chart
- radar chart
- record 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
- → Japanese: チャート (chāto)
- → Korean: 차트 (chateu)
- → Swahili: chati
- → Welsh: siart
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.
- (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
- chartable
- rechart
Translations
draw a chart or map
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draw or figure out a route or plan
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Related terms
- card
- cartography
- cartoon
- cartouche
- charter
- Chartist
- Magna Carta
Anagrams
- ratch, trach
Irish
Verb
chart
- analytic past indicative of cart
Lower Sorbian
chart
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ, cognate with Polish chart, Czech chrt, Ukrainian хорт (xort), Serbo-Croatian hȑt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [xart]
Noun
chart m
- greyhound (lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing)
Declension
Declension of chart
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | chart | charta | charty |
| Genitive | charta | chartowu | chartow |
| Dative | chartoju | chartoma | chartam |
| Accusative | charta | chartowu | charty, chartow |
| Instrumental | chartom | chartoma | chartami |
| Locative | charśe | chartoma | chartach |
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
chart
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xart/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -art
- Syllabification: chart
- Homophone: hart
Noun
chart m anim (diminutive charcik, feminine charcica)
- greyhound; sighthound
Declension
Declension of chart
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | chart | charty |
| genitive | charta | chartów |
| dative | chartowi | chartom |
| accusative | charta | charty |
| instrumental | chartem | chartami |
| locative | charcie | chartach |
| vocative | charcie | charty |
Derived terms
adjective
- charci
Related terms
nouns
- charciarz
- charciątko
- charciczka
- charcię
Further reading
- chart in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- chart in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Noun
chart m (plural charts)
- chart