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mapn.1

Brit. /map/, U.S. /mæp/
Forms: 1500s–1600s mappe, 1500s–1700s mapp, 1500s– map, 1600s mape.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: Latin mappa ; mappemonde n., mappa mundi n.
Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin mappa map (from c1120 in British sources; in classical Latin ‘towel, napkin’, a word of Punic origin according to Quintilian), or shortened < mappemonde n. or mappa mundi n. Compare Old French mape , mappe map of the world (c1160 or later, rare; not recorded in Anglo-Norman), Italian mappa (14th cent.), Spanish mapa (1582–5), Portuguese mapa (16th cent.), and also forms s.v. mappemonde n.Post-classical Latin mappa is attested from the late 4th cent. as a term used by land surveyors, though its exact interpretation is not clear. (The usual word for a surveyor's map in classical Latin and post-classical Latin is forma .) The transition in sense from ‘cloth’ to ‘map’ is probably due to the fact that early maps were sometimes drawn on cloth. Compare German Mappe map (15th cent.; this sense became obsolete in 18th cent.; the modern sense ‘portfolio’ developed from the intermediary 18th-cent. ‘cover for a map’). In sense 10 probably after classical Latin mappa piece of cloth, napkin.
I. A chart, plan, diagram, etc.
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a. A drawing or other representation of the earth's surface or a part of it made on a flat surface, showing the distribution of physical or geographical features (and often also including socio-economic, political, agricultural, meteorological, etc., information), with each point in the representation corresponding to an actual geographical position according to a fixed scale or projection; a similar representation of the positions of stars in the sky, the surface of a planet, or the like. Also: a plan of the form or layout of something, as a route, a building, etc.Frequently used as the second element in compounds, as contour, relief, road, street, weather map, etc. (see the first element). In later use a hydrographical map is more usually called a chart (formerly card); cf. chart n. 1b, card n.2 4.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun]
mapa1527
carda1532
card of the sea1555
chard?a1560
chart?a1560
draught1580
a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. B4 v A little Mappe or Carde of the worlde.
c1547 Inventory in BL Harl. MS 1419 f. 133 Item. a litle Mappe of Englande parte of Scotlande Ierlande and brytayne of parchement sette in a frame.
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxxv. sig. L iij Diuide the circle at the myddes of your map into 32 partes, pulling out straight lines fro the centre to the vttermost bounds of the charte.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 73 The great Mapp of Mercator.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 38 Meane time we will expresse our darker purposes, The map there; know we haue diuided In three, our kingdome. View more context for this quotation
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. vii. 166 A Geographicall Mappe is a plaine Table, wherein the Lineaments of the Terrestriall Spheare are expressed.
1700 A. de la Pryme Diary (1869) 316 A larg map having every field, ing, close, mested, croft, cavel, intack, etc., in the whole parish in it.
1760 S. Johnson Idler 23 Feb. 57 A Rivulet not marked in the Maps.
1812 in A. Hollar tr. W. Schivelbusch Railway Journey (1980) i. 6 (heading) Map of the railways in the Newcastle on Tyne Coal Field in 1812.
1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 44 On examination of a geological map it will be seen that [etc.].
1897 B. Stoker Dracula xix. 257 ‘This is the spot,’ said the Professor as he turned his lamp on a small map of the house.
1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights 149 The others began studying their maps to clear up this geographic anomaly.
1973 P. Campbell 35 Years on Job 117 On the map the squiggly little yellow road for some reason looked as if it was all downhill, but it wasn't.
1998 N.Y. Times 5 Apr. 60/2 The Dave & Busters restaurant in the Ontario Mills Mall..is a 60,000-square-foot restaurant-arcade—an experience in sensory overload so huge that first-timers require a map.
†b. figurative. A tract of country spread out to view like a map. in map: within view. Cf. map v. 1c. Obsolete. rare.
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1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue i. 15 Is not the Field it selfe a goodly Map for the Lord to looke vpon, better than a painted paper?
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 321 A spacious map Of hill and valley interpos'd between.
1795 W. MacRitchie Diary 1 July (1897) 32 The whole country of Lancashire, with its rivers, towns and villages, &c., lying in extensive map below us.
†2. A tabulated arrangement of data; = table n. 14a. Obsolete. rare.
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society > communication > record > list > [noun] > tabular
wax-bredc960
tablement1551
project1588
map1626
tablature1740
scale1780
tabulation1837
1626 D. Featley Parallel To Rdr. sig. Aiij Errors..which, collected into a small map, they exhibite.
3.
a. A diagram or collection of data showing the spatial distribution of something or the relative positions of its components. Frequently with distinguishing word.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > diagram > other types of diagram
map1797
base map1862
polar diagram1879
Gantt chart1918
pie diagram1921
pie chart1922
pie graph1930
histomap1931
process sheet1935
rose diagram1938
process chart1939
stereodiagram1945
wall chart1958
network1959
concept map1967
polar1975
mind map1987
1797 A. Barnard Let. 12 Sept. in S. Afr. a Cent. Ago (1901) iv. 85 It occurred to me before leaving England that it might be useful to carry with me to Africa a map of a sheep and an ox, as I thought it likely that the Dutch butchers might cut their meat up awkwardly.
1833 Rep. 1st & 2nd Meetings Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1831–2 320 Fraunhofer counted about 590 of these lines; and in a fine map of the spectrum which he has published, he has inserted the strongest of them.
1881 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 171 653 The research..on a method of photography by which the least refrangible end of the solar spectrum could be mapped has reached such a stage that it seems desirable that I should..present a map of the solar spectrum between wave lengths 7600 and 10,750.
1950 W. L. Bragg Rev. Recent Adv. in X-ray Anal. ii. 41 (caption) Electron density map of the phthalocyanine molecule (left) and key to the structure (right).
1973 Nature 21 Dec. 509/1 The ability to record activity in many cells at once would allow the construction of a detailed map of the functional connections within a ganglion.
1987 Sci. Amer. Mar. 28/1 The construction of a three-dimensional atomic ‘map’ of the virus.
b. Genetics. A representation of the relative order and distance apart of the genes of a chromosome. Also: the nucleotide sequence of all or part of a chromosome or genome.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > chromosome > genetic map
map1915
1915 T. H. Morgan et al. Mechanism Mendelian Heredity iii. 64 In the construction of the chromosome maps shown in the frontispiece the distance taken as a unit is that within which 1 per cent. of crossing over will occur.
1935 Genetics 20 317 (heading) Cytological and crossover maps.
1939 Jrnl. Genetics 39 335 There is now evidence for the existence of seven sex-linked genes, and for these he has furnished a tentative map.
1954 Adv. Genetics 6 1 (heading) Map construction in Neurospora Crassa.
1970 E. J. Ambrose & D. M. Easty Cell Biol. x. 338 (caption) Linear genetic map of Drosophila showing the four linkage groups corresponding to the four chromosomes.
1994 Time 7 Feb. 7/2 Although your illustration of the gene map showing the known locations of mutations included neurofibromatosis Type 2, you left out the gene for neurofibromatosis Type 1.
c. Physiology. Originally: (a representation of) a sensory area of the cerebral cortex in which neighbouring cells respond to stimulation of neighbouring portions of the peripheral sensory epithelium. More generally: within the central nervous system, a representation of sensory or motor information in which some parameter of a stimulus or movement varies systematically with physical location in the brain.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > cortex > parts of
molecular layer1867
motor cortex1880
Wernicke's area1887
operculum1889
map1945
1945 Proc. Royal Soc. 1944–5 B. 132 351 It has been possible to construct a map of the visual cortex on which the cortical area related to each segment of the retina can be shown.
1957 Jrnl. Neurophysiol. 20 288 The composite map of somatic sensory area I..was constructed from partial maps obtained in five experiments. The cortex was explored in 1 mm. steps.
1960 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. XIV. 335/2 The cortex contains a ‘map’ or projection area, each point of which represents a point on the retina and therefore a point in visual space as seen by each eye.
1987 Sci. Amer. June 62/3 The striate cortex registers a systematic map of the visual field.
1994 Hearing Res. 81 146/2 A map of auditory space is still present at near-threshold levels in the S[uper] C[olliculus] of animals that have been monaurally deafened.
1998 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. 401 411 This study investigated whether the topographic differences in the functional properties of the tectal motor map of goldfish are related to particular patterns of connections with downstream structures.
4. Mathematics. A correspondence by which each element of a given set has associated with it one (or occasionally more than one) element of a second set; = mapping n. 2a.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > transformation > [noun] > correspondence
correspondence1866
mapping1900
transformation1908
map1949
arrow1961
1949 Ann. Math. 50 956 The symbolism f: (X′, A′) ⊂ (X, A) is read: f is the inclusion map of (X′, A′) into (X, A).
1966 Sze-Tsen Hu Introd. Gen. Topol. ii. 27 Continuous functions will be called mappings or maps.
1966 Sze-Tsen Hu Introd. Gen. Topol. ii. 28 A map f:X→Y from a space X into a space Y.
1971 G. Glauberman in M. B. Powell & G. Higman Finite Simple Groups i. 8 The main tool in investigating this property is the transfer homomorphism of G into S/S′. Unfortunately, we do not have time to define this map.
1988 D. Welsh Codes & Cryptogr. ii. 16 Although we have defined a code as a map, we often identify it with the collection of codewords.
II. Extended uses.
†5. figurative.
a. A representation in abridged form; a summary or condensed account of a state of things; an epitome, a summation. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of immaterial things
heapc1175
fardel1526
mapa1586
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 3 I..thinke that all the mappe of my state I display. When trembling voice brings foorth, that I do Stella loue.
1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. xv. sig. T My soule, saith he, is but a mappe of shoes, No substance, but a shadow for to please.
1609 S. Rowlands Famous Hist. Guy Earle of Warwick 59 Who in her Face a Map of sorrow wears, A countenance compos'd all mournful, sad.
a1631 J. Donne To Mr. T. W. iv, in Poet. Wks. (1987) 182 My verse, the strict Map of my misery, shall live to see that, for whose want I dye.
1647 J. Saltmarsh Sparkles of Glory (1847) 2 So as man is all created excellency in the map or abridgment.
b. An embodiment or incarnation of a quality, characteristic, etc.; the very picture or image of something. Obsolete.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > [noun] > a type
byseningc1175
samplera1400
image1548
express1553
mapa1591
emblema1631
pantotype1644
model1745
a1591 H. Smith Sinfull Mans Search (1592) sig. A6 What were man if hee were once left to himselfe? a map of miserie.
1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue i. sig. B4 Farewell the true mappe of a gull.
1620 Swetnam Arraigned by Women ii. sig. C4 The hope of Sicill, Map of true Nobilitie, Patterne of Wisdome, Grace and Grauitie.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 83 They are the absolute map of sordidness, fareing hardly, and professing fairly.
6. figurative. A conceptualization or mental representation of the structure, extent, or layout of an area of experience, field of study, ideology, etc.
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1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 148 Opening the map of God's extensive plan, We find a little isle, this life of man.
1791 E. Burke Let. to R. Burke in Corr. (1844) III. 227 I don't know the map of their situation.
1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. i. 386 By getting a blow on the ribs we come to connect feelings in the chest with the place on our map of the body.
1899 W. E. H. Lecky (title) The map of life.
1911 J. M. Barrie Peter & Wendy i. 8 Catch them trying to draw a map of a child's mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time.
1986 Brit. Jrnl. Aesthetics Autumn 335 Diverse philosophical or artistic points of view within one's everyday map of discursive references.
1991 Theology Jan.–Feb. 58 Those for whom the map of feminist theology is less familiar.
7. A shape or pattern resembling a map in form or outline.
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the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [noun] > others
sunc1400
T1621
floscule1669
cauliflower1803
leaf shape1804
map1822
sphendone1847
thistle1891
turkey-foot1932
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 571 Motley dandriff. Scaliness in diffuse maps of irregular outline, and diverse colours.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. xv. 131 Wrinkling his face into a very map of curves and corners.
1968 C. Causley Underneath Water 5 We couldn't make any more of each other Than the map of stains on the bedroom wall.
1978 F. Muir in F. Muir & D. Norden Take my Word for It 24 When your back is turned, [he] leaves a 9″ x 5″ damp map of Corsica sinking slowly into the carpet.
1998 A. Patchett Magician's Assistant 270 The map of scars on his cheek was red from the cold.
8. In various figurative phrases. (Now occasionally with premodifying adjective or noun.)
a. off the map: out of existence; obsolete or of no account; in or into a remote or insignificant position. Frequently to wipe (also knock, etc.) off the map. Cf. off-the-map n. at off adv., prep., n., and adj. Compounds.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > in obscurity
obscurely?a1475
off the map1870
1870 Overland Monthly Nov. 467/2 Europe would combine to wipe Mexico off the map of the world.
1904 W. H. Smith Promoters ii. 54 When she [sc. Carthage] wouldn't let up, the only thing left was to wipe her off the map.
1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter vii. 99 A good set-to is the best way..to put a stop to quarrelin'. It just wipes the whole thing off the map.
1928 Weekly Disp. 13 May 2/6 Cochineal insects, except for making tinctures to colour jellies, are practically off the map today.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 30 May 19 We'll knock that..place off the map.
1957 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples III. ix. iii. 227 They wiped off the map the proud old French provinces and parcelled out the country into the eighty-six departments that still exist.
1973 E. Lemarchand Let or Hindrance xi. 131 We're a bit off the map up here.
1986 M. Foot Loyalists & Loners 154 Even his closest friends were wiped off the political map in the process.
b. on the map: (a) in or into existence; (b) (the usual sense) in an important or prominent position, in vogue; of some account or importance. Chiefly in to put (back) on the map.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adverb] > in important position
on the map1913
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (transitive)] > attach importance to > by establishing position
to put (back) on the map1913
1913 C. E. Mulford Coming of Cassidy viii. 122 Cowan had just put Buckskin on th' map by buildin' th' first shack.
1916 Munsey's Mag. June 146/2 ‘The Fortune Hunter’, the play that put Winchell Smith on the dramatists' map.
1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress vii. 93 What I mean to say is, you are on the map. You have a sporting chance.
1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters xix. 205 Didn't know you knew I was on the map. You're sure honouring me.
1934 B.B.C. Year-bk. 74 Weekly Chamber Concerts..further helped to put the Hall ‘on the map’.
a1944 F. Clune Red Heart (1946) ii. 16 The war has put the Red Heart on the map.
1973 Times 24 Apr. (São Paulo Suppl.) p. i/7 The exhibition was so successful that in one weekend São Paulo put Brazil firmly on to the export map.
1991 Traveller Winter 30/1 But for the political and military skirmishing going on in Kashmir, the Gulmarg would already be firmly on the map as the major heli-skiing centre in the Himalayas.
c. Chiefly North American. all over the map: widely distributed, in many different places; (also) varying widely and erratically.
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1956 C. Odets & E. Lehman Sweet Smell of Success (1957) (typescript, N.Y. Publ. Libr.) 3C I pay you a C-and-a-half a week wherein you plant big lies about me and the Club all over the map.
1981 P. C. Newman Canad. Establishment II. ix. 348 Knowlton is a contented man, joint-venturing all over the map, buying a piece of the Regina Pats hockey team, travelling to Europe.
1991 Spy (N.Y.) Oct. 43/1 Lisa lacked focus. She was all over the map.
1995 Sight & Sound Nov. 19/2 From the first, the film acted as a Rorschach blot, and the critical reception was all over the map.
1998 N.Y. Times 14 June 7/1 Even therapists with the best credentials can be all over the map.
9. colloquial. A person's face.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > [noun]
leera700
nebeOE
onseneeOE
wlitec950
anlethOE
nebshaftc1225
snouta1300
facec1300
visage1303
semblantc1315
vicea1325
cheera1350
countenance1393
front1398
fashiona1400
visurec1400
physiognomyc1425
groina1500
faxa1522
favour1525
facies1565
visor1575
complexiona1616
frontispiecea1625
mun1667
phiz1687
mug1708
mazard1725
physiog1791
dial plate1811
fizzog1811
jiba1825
dial1837
figurehead1840
Chevy Chase1859
mooey1859
snoot1861
chivvy1889
clock1899
map1899
mush1902
pan1920
kisser1938
boat1958
boat race1958
punim1965
1899 A. H. Lewis Sandburrs 9 I sees d' map of a skirt—a goil, I means, on a drop curtain at a swell t'eatre once.
1902 G. V. Hobart It's up to You iv. 78 It was Benedict Murgatoyd—the lad with the map like a cow!
1908 K. McGaffey Sorrows of Show Girl 200 Hauling off wifey hangs one on Alla's map.
1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert ix. 205 The portrait..was that of a man in the early thirties... ‘What a map!’ exclaimed the young man.
1935 P. G. Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins xv. 178 It's mostly a case of having a map that photographs well.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xiv. 144 What d'you want to sit there staring at me for? I'm not a bloody oil-painting. You ought to know my map by now.
1971 J. Curtis Banjo 255 No mistaking that map.
1996 D. F. Wallace Infinite Jest 280 That look on your map there mean something there, Randy?
†III. Other senses.
10. Perhaps: a protective covering, a cloth. Obsolete. rare.
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1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 220 But some then will demaund, where had Pope Alexander..that map or net at Rome wherin (it is said) the napkin of our Sauiour Christ is preserued.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
map-board n.
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1947 D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 192 The G.I. and the A.D.C. vaulted from their perch in the back of the jeep and then bent over it again to get their map-boards.
1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends i. ii. 12 He had spent the first week of his tour on the field drilling his men at his map board calculating distances and elevations.
1992 M. Ondaatje Eng. Patient iii. 99 He brushed the dust off the mapboard the wires lay on.
map case n.
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1916 H. G. Wells Mr. Britling sees it Through i. v. 181 He..turned over the map in the map-case beside him, and tried to find his position.
1948 W. S. Churchill Second World War I. ii. xxii. 365 A few feet behind me, as I sat in my old chair, was the wooden map-case I had had fixed in 1911, and inside it still remained the chart of the North Sea.
1990 Which? Bks. Apr. 3/2 (caption) The Good Walks Guide is lightweight and will fit handily into your map case.
map-drawing n.
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1838 Biblical Repertory Apr. 10/2 Hence the use of outline maps, and of black-board exercises in map-drawing.
1857 J. Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) I. 42 Precision of touch should be cultivated by map-drawing in his geography class.
1943 J. S. Huxley Evol. Ethics i. 6 This business of map-drawing.
1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 4 Aug. a2/4 Izetbegovic..began withdrawing from the negotiations after they reached the map-drawing stage.
† map-graver n. Obsolete rare
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > [noun] > map-maker
cardman1598
map-maker1598
mappist1614
mapper1635
map-graver1662
cartographer1863
hill-engraver1900
1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura sig. b5v Chart, and Map-gravers.
map-maker n.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > [noun] > map-maker
cardman1598
map-maker1598
mappist1614
mapper1635
map-graver1662
cartographer1863
hill-engraver1900
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Disegnante, a map or modle maker.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. ii. 168 Map-makers, rather then they will have their maps naked and bald, do periwig them with false hair, and fill up the vacuum..with imaginary places.
1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 77 Our wise map-makers..have corrupted it into Ponio bay.
1811 L. Aikin Juvenile Corr. 114 Instruments of this kind..are exported to all the civilized countries of the world, for the use of mathematicians, astronomers, navigators, map-makers, etc.
1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans i. 10 The task of any mapmaker..is to produce the most accurate..picture.
map-making n.
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1846 A. Jamieson (title) A manual of map-making and mechanical geography.
1879 Sir A. R. Clarke in Encycl. Brit. X. 203 Notwithstanding the facility of construction, the stereographic projection is not much used in map-making.
1952 F. J. Monkhouse Maps & Diagrams ii. 63 Since the earliest days of map-making, the depiction of relief has been one of the major problems of cartographers, for it involves the representation of three dimensions upon a plane surface.
1999 EuroBusiness Sept. 141 A deal with the UK Government's Ordnance Survey cartographic agency has seen it re-livery one of the aircraft and base it up in Blackpool..for use in map-making in the UK.
† map-monger n. Obsolete rare
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of
bawdy-basket1567
ballad-monger1598
land-pirate1608
map-monger1639
bookwoman1647
mercury1648
second-hand bookseller1656
Bible-seller1707
map-seller1710
stall-man1761
book auctioneer1776
scrap-monger1786
colporteur1796
death-hunter1851
train boy1852
speech-crier1856
roarer1865
looker-out1894
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xiv. 253 A great map-monger..undertook to travel over England by help of his maps.
map-mounter n.
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1819 Post Office London Directory 305 Map-mounter and Dissecter.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Map-mounter, a workman who backs maps with canvas, varnishes and fixes them on rollers [etc.].
1880 G. N. Lamphere U.S. Govt. 138/2 Force and Pay of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Service:..1 map mounter.
map paper n.
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1942 H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery (ed. 2) 68 Map paper, a specially made smooth cartridge or strong printing paper—opaque, strong and free from atmospheric influence.
1963 R. R. A. Higham Handbk. Papermaking vii. 202 Chart and map papers. The best grades are produced from rag pulps, although sulphite and sulphate mixtures are also used.
1992 Art Newspaper (Internat. ed.) May 21/7 The gallery's other space at Knokke will be showing twenty of his small-scale drawings: pastels on map paper and india ink on musical scores.
map-seller n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of
bawdy-basket1567
ballad-monger1598
land-pirate1608
map-monger1639
bookwoman1647
mercury1648
second-hand bookseller1656
Bible-seller1707
map-seller1710
stall-man1761
book auctioneer1776
scrap-monger1786
colporteur1796
death-hunter1851
train boy1852
speech-crier1856
roarer1865
looker-out1894
1710 London Gaz. No. 4685/4 Sold by C. Browne, Print and Map-seller.
1999 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 13 Mar. 47 The next generation of map sellers such as Nicolas Visscher and Frederick de Wit were smaller businesses who avoided producing formal atlases in preference for atlases assembled to the specifications of the particular client.
map work n.
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1889 O. Wilde Pen, Pencil & Poison in Fortn. Rev. Jan. 45 Little more than topography, a kind of pictorial map-work.
1938 E. Raisz Gen. Cartogr. xv. 172 Transparent tracing papers are made of straw and cornstalk base and are used in map work for sketching, for copying, and for tissue overlays.
1986 G. Chesbro Veil (1987) ii. 4 Thick, unruly brown hair was creased by a scar that radiated to his right temple from the lacy mapwork of nerveless, ruined tissue that covered his right cheek.
C2.
map butterfly n. (a) any butterfly of the nymphalid genus Cyrestis, the members of which occur in Old World rainforests and have pale forewings crossed with narrow dark lines; (b) a small Eurasian nymphalid butterfly, Araschnia levana, the wings of which have dark undersides crossed with narrow white veins.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > miscellaneous types
white1766
rocket1832
leaf butterfly1838
morpho1853
owl butterfly1881
map butterfly1894
1894 ‘Eha’ Naturalist on Prowl 50 The delicately devised Map Butterfly, Cyrestis thyodamas.
1987 C. A. Clarke Human Genetics & Med. (ed. 3) iv. 22 In the Map butterfly, Araschnia levana, temperature or length of daylight can produce very distinct spring and summer forms.
1993 J. Feltwell Illustr. Encycl. Butterflies 141/2 Map butterflies are mostly found in Asia, but this [sc. Cyrestis camillus] is the only representative of its genus in Africa.
map fire n. Military artillery fire in which maps are used to determine the setting of the guns.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > types of firing
reverse fire1758
vertical fire1852
broadsiding1858
map fire1922
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 252/2 The precision with which ‘map fire’ could be carried out.
map-flapping n. Military rare the process of transmitting the outline of a map or other drawing by flag signals.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > signal with flags > transmission of maps by flag signals
map-flapping1886
1886 H. G. Willink in Longman's Mag. Feb. 404 (heading) Map-flapping.
map lichen n. a lichen whose thallus has markings resembling a map; esp. Rhizocarpon geographicum.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > other lichens
cup-moss1597
ground liverwort1597
Usnea1597
perelle1712
oak moss1728
necklace moss1759
rag1759
thrush-lichen1759
Iceland lichen1777
Iceland moss1785
map lichen1796
scripture-wort1835
letter lichen1846
dog lichen1853
fairy cups1855
velvet moss1858
manna lichen1864
tree-hair1866
famine-bread1887
old man's beard1888
sea ivory1966
1796 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. Map lichen. Lichen geographicus.
1888 F. A. Lees Flora W. Yorks. 655 Lecidea geographica (L.). Map Lichen. On sub-alpine rocks, but chiefly those of the older formations.
1969 Beaver (Winnipeg) Summer 13/1 The rocks are bright with green and orange map lichen.
1993 K. S. Robinson Green Mars (new ed.) 164 On flat rocks he found the crustose lichens: button lichen, stud lichen, shield lichen, candellaria, apple-green map lichen [etc.].
map light n. a light used to illuminate a map.
ΚΠ
1963 Times 13 Mar. 10 Standard equipment includes two-speed screen wipers and washers—operated from the steering wheel—anti-dazzle mirror, reversing lights, map light and a heating and ventilation system.
1995 National (Canad. Bar Assoc.) Mar. (Autovision) 10/1 The most significant interior differences [are] the addition of map lights and intermittent wipers as standard equipment on V6s.
map-measurer n. an instrument for measuring distances on a map, usually with a small rotating wheel at the tip.
ΚΠ
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1389/2 Map-measurer, an instrument with a little wheel of known circumference, which is made to roll along a line and indicate its length, the number of revolutions being counted, and the fraction, if any, observed by reference to the pointer and graduated perimeter.
1970 Nature 7 Nov. 560/1 A map-measurer of the ‘drawing’ type was used to measure the length of the pencil lines.
1985 Survival Weaponry Dec. 9/2 Binoculars, map-measurers..if you need a stocking-filler.
map meter n. rare = map-measurer n.
ΚΠ
1867 Parkes' Catal. Instruments 30 Opisometer or Map Meter.
map-net n. (a) a network of lines representing meridians and parallels on which a map or plan can be represented; = graticule n. 1; (b) a net used to contain a map or maps.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for measuring > [noun] > graticule
graticule1914
map-net1932
1932 J. W. Cameron Maps & Map-work iii. 30 A map projection is any definite system of drawing meridians and parallels, the network of lines thus formed being called a map-net or graticule.
1954 J. M. M. Fisher & R. M. Lockley Sea-birds p. xvi One of these is on a mapnet invented by the late Professor C. B. Fawcett and is used with his permission and that of the Royal Geographical Society.
1997 Pop. Sci. Oct. (back cover) (advt.) The convenience of a center console that combines storage for CDs or cassettes with a coin holder, map net and writing surface.
map pocket n. (in a garment, vehicle, etc.) a pocket used for storing a map or maps.
ΚΠ
1958 J. Lodwick Bid Soldiers Shoot iii. vii. 222 In the map pocket of my denims.
1972 Country Life 15 June 1577/2 Map pockets are fitted to each door.
1998 T. Clancy Rainbow Six vii. 154 He'd already stashed his pistol in the map pocket of the left-side copilot's door.
map projection n. a geometrical or cartographic method of representing on a flat surface all or part of the earth's surface.
ΚΠ
1890 Cent. Dict. at Projection A map-projection in which the space between two meridians and two parallels is represented by a trapezoid.
1905 C. F. Close Text Bk. Topogr. & Geogr. Surv. xi. 92 The term projection, though sanctioned by long usage, is an unfortunate one. The great majority of useful map projections are not obtained in any geometrical way. A map projection is to be treated as the representation on a plane, by any law, of the terrestrial meridians and parallels.
1995 Wired Jan. 40/2 For this atlas, Feigenbaum created a new map projection.
map reference n. a set of numbers or letters specifying a location as represented on a map.
ΚΠ
a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) ii. 16 Just talk as you like over the air—except for giving map-references of course.
1969 M. Pugh Last Place Left iii. 18 I..then gave him some of the facts and the map references.
1995 Guardian 30 June i. 13/2 The bothies' map references have become so well known that the dozen most accessible, like Corrour and Shenavall in Sutherland, are now virtually mountain service stations.
map-roller n. rare something on to which a map can be rolled.
ΚΠ
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 245 Shade and map-rollers, turning in ivory, done in a superior style.
map square n. rare one of an array of squares formed by grid lines drawn on a map to facilitate the use of coordinate references.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > line on map > grid
map square1917
grid1918
1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 272 I looked overboard to make certain of the map square.
map turtle n. any of several small, North American freshwater turtles of the genus Graptemys (family Emydidae), which have bold patterns on the head and shell; esp. G. geographica of the central United States and the Great Lakes.
ΚΠ
1879 W. H. Smith Catal. Reptilia & Amphibia Michigan p. vii Graptemys geographica... Map turtle.
1953 H. S. Zim & H. M. Smith Reptiles & Amphibians i. 34 Map turtles are aquatic turtles often found in large numbers in ponds, swamps, and quiet streams.
1992 Canad. Geographic Mar. 23 Rare members of the turtle family, such as the map turtle and the spiny softshell turtle.
map unit n. Genetics (in a linkage map) the distance separating two linked genes corresponding to a recombination frequency of one per cent; also called centimorgan.
ΚΠ
1915 T. H. Morgan et al. Mechanism Mendelian Heredity iii. 64 In the construction of the chromosome maps shown in the frontispiece the distance taken as a unit is that within which 1 per cent. of crossing over will occur.]
1968 R. C. King Dict. Genetics Map unit, a number that corresponds to a recombination frequency of 1 per cent.
1982 Jrnl. Virol. 42 488 Early RNA..selected by hybridization to adenoviral DNA fragments spanning the region from 14.7 to 31.5 map units.
1991 D. J. Weatherall New Genetics & Clin. Practice (ed. 3) ii. 7 The distance separating two loci that show recombination in 1 out of 100 gametes is called a map unit, or centimorgan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

mapn.2

Brit. /map/, U.S. /mæp/, Scottish English /map/
Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably < Scots and English regional (northern) map (verb) to nibble, especially with twitching of the lips, as by a rabbit, hare, or sheep (attested from early 19th cent.; see Eng. Dial. Dict. and Sc. National Dict. s.vv.; probably of imitative origin, compare mop v.2), although compare much earlier mapkin n.
Scottish.
A rabbit.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit)
coneyc1430
rabbit1502
bunny1699
pussy1715
mappie1825
map1866
drummer1894
flopsy bunny1909
underground mutton1946
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) ii. 111 Map, a rabbit.
1881 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) III. 229/2 Map, lit., nibbler, a name sometimes given to a rabbit.
1897 J. Mackinnon Braefoot Sketches 83 ‘Daisy’, his ‘map’, was merry at an ample breakfast of newly-plucked dandelions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mapv.

Brit. /map/, U.S. /mæp/
Inflections: Present participle mapping; past tense and past participle mapped Brit. /mapt/, U.S. /mæpt/;
Forms: 1500s– map, 1600s mappe.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: map n.1
Etymology: < map n.1 Compare Spanish mapear, Portuguese mapear, Catalan mapar, German mappieren.
1.
a. transitive. To describe, outline, chart, or represent as if on a map.
ΚΠ
1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxxii. 143 Of which letigious Famelies here mapped be the Lines.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. i. 2 I am neere to'th'place where they should meet, if Pisanio haue mapp'd it truely. View more context for this quotation
1854 C. Norton Eng. Laws for Women in 19th Cent. 6 We know that Law was mapped and planned among civilised nations as the great Highway to Justice.
1889 H. R. Haggard in Illustr. London News 23 Feb. 237/1 The form of a man..vaguely mapped upon the twilight.
1997 Independent 21 Apr. (Media Plus section) 28/2 The Roses of No Man's Land..explored one of the few areas of the Great War not to have been already exhaustively mapped by documentarists and film-makers.
b. transitive. To make a map of; to represent or delineate on a map. Also intransitive.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > [verb (transitive)]
map1596
to map outa1656
to map down1868
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxii. 299 Not moop't at home, but mapping Lands.
1821 Monthly Rev. 95 18 A considerable condensation might yet be accomplished by mapping the country more statistically.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 411 While he, on the rock of Saint Helena, mapped the constellations of the southern hemisphere.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. ii. 24 Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe.
1901 R. Kipling Kim xii. 321 They will plot and survey and map of course.
1925 B. M. Jones & J. C. Griffiths Aerial Surv. by Rapid Methods ii. 8 Such a procedure will..be necessary when mapping any large area.
1992 S. S. Hall Mapping Next Millennium (1993) 7 Planetary geologists have mapped the hills and dales of Venus by radar, Mars by magnetometer, Jupiter with photopolarimeters, the moon in person.
†c. transitive. In passive. Of a landscape: to be spread out to view like a map. Cf. map n.1 1b. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xxi. 536 To the south,..the broken land and water..was mapped with clearness before us.
1862 A. H. Clough At Venice in Poems 44 At a step, I crown the Campanile's top, And view all mapped below.
1882 E. Lazarus Songs of Semite 22 In the clear, rayless air, I see the chequered vale mapped far below.
d. transitive. poetic. To colour or shade in patches, like the regions of a map.
ΚΠ
1857 R. H. Stoddard Songs of Summer 97 Tigers, whose tawny hides are mapped with black.
1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells viii. 86 The study's pale green walls were mapped with damp.
e. transitive. Originally and chiefly U.S. To plan or devise (a course of action, etc.); to project.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] > plan a course of action
map1946
1946 Fortune Aug. 33/2 (advt.) Management..often hesitates to embark on mapping a pension plan because it seems so complex a job.
1950 M. Culver Black Water Blues in Atlantic Monthly May 35/1 Bump Roxy was a great drummer and a great musician. He told them when they overdid it or underdid it; he mapped the order of the solos. He held the band together.
1957 V. Packard Hidden Persuaders vi. 62 Our small fears and anxieties, like our guilt feelings, offered many openings for the depth manipulators to map successful campaigns for enterprising merchandisers.
1986 Philadelphia Inquirer 11 July d1/2 A spring fund-raising event netted nearly $500,000 for AIDS research, and more are being mapped.
1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 21 Mar. e1/4 Now, using his checkbook and his still-big public following, he is mapping a strategy to keep up the pressure for his agenda.
2.
a. transitive. To establish the relative positions, or the spatial relations or distribution, of (an object or its components).
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > position or situation > [verb (transitive)] > ascertain or determine the position of
locate1813
map1866
position1881
1866 E. Atkinson tr. A. Ganot Elem. Treat. Physics (ed. 2) vii. iv. 421 Fraunhofer mapped the lines [of the solar spectrum].
1881 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 171 653 The research..on a method of photography by which the least refrangible end of the solar spectrum could be mapped has reached such a stage that it seems desirable that I should..present a map of the solar spectrum between wave lengths 7600 and 10,750.
1969 Times 13 Feb. 10/3 Professor Jacobson has inverted an eye from young toads..and then mapped the connexions made between the retina and the brain.
1974 Sci. Amer. Mar. 122/3 Conformational analysis is the completion of the old program for mapping molecules in space.
1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind (1988) ix. 113 Eventually a few schizophrenic brains began to trickle in, and the tedious process of mapping their dopamine receptors began.
1998 New Scientist 21 Nov. 92/1 (advt.) Projects include mapping ligand-binding sites in the cytoskeletal protein talin.
b. transitive. Genetics. To establish the location of (a gene, mutation, etc.) on a specified chromosome or on a genetic map (frequently with to); to establish the position of genes on (a chromosome).
ΚΠ
1917 Genetics 2 456 When these vital allelomorphs are mapped according to the linkage shown, they are seen to occupy the region adjacent to bar.
1950 Adv. Genetics 3 117 With linked loci which are closely spaced the recombination value y may itself be used as a conventional measure of distance..in which to map the chromosome.
1988 Mouse News Let. Nov. 159 The results indicated that all crossover points are mapped to a DNA segment of 30Kbp in length.
1990 J. Bishop & M. Waldholz Genome x. 212 By 1973 the number of known genes had jumped to more than 2,300, of which 152 had been mapped to specific chromosomes.
1992 Economist 18 Apr. 115/1 The human genome project, an attempt to map and describe all the genes found on the DNA in human cells.
c. intransitive. Genetics. Of a gene, a mutation, etc.: to have a specified position on a genetic map.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [verb (intransitive)] > have position on genetic map
map1961
1961 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 47 408 If there exists space to the right of segment B10, a mutation in that segment might map as if it were in segment B7.
1967 Bacteriol. Rev. 21 341/2 Both succinate-requiring mutants (which map at the suc locus near gal) and lipoic acid-requiring mutants are phenotypically similar.
1975 Nature 5 June 447/2 Mutations affecting the structure of this enzyme in terms of electrophoretic mobility changes..all map within 5 × 10−3 map units.
1990 Nucleic Acids Res. 18 4143/1 A gene in Drosophila melanogaster that maps cytologically to 2C1-3 on the distal portion of the X-chromosome encodes a member of the steroid/thyroid hormone receptor superfamily.
3.
a. intransitive. Originally and chiefly Mathematics. To be associated with or transformed into by a mapping. With into, on to, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > [verb (intransitive)] > fall into place on map
map1893
1893 J. Harkness & F. Morley Treat. Theory Functions 338 Show that..lines parallel to the axes map into unipartite Cartesians.
1959 G. James & R. C. James Math. Dict. (ed. 2) 224/2 The kernel of the homomorphism is the set I of elements which map onto the zero element of R*.
1990 Lit. & Ling. Computing 5 186/1 In a context-free algorithm, any suffix that maps on to the end of a word can be removed forthwith.
b. transitive. Originally and chiefly Mathematics. To associate with each element of (a set) one or more elements of another set in accordance with a mapping (mapping n. 2a); (occasionally) to associate (an element) with one or more others in this way. With on, to, etc.; also with on to for a certain kind of mapping (see on to prep. 5).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] > with correspondence between quantities
map1939
transform1972
1939 M. H. A. Newman Elem. Topol. Plane Sets of Points i. 12 A (1, 1)-correspondence is set up between the set of all positive integers, I, and the set of positive even integers, E, by mapping n of I on 2n of E.
1939 M. H. A. Newman Elem. Topol. Plane Sets of Points iii. 57 A circle can be mapped continuously on a square region.
1941 G. Birkhoff & S. MacLane Surv. Mod. Algebra xiii. 350 The direct sum A + B of two rings A and B may be mapped homomorphically on the summand B by the correspondence (a, b) → b.
1965 E. M. Patterson & D. E. Rutherford Elem. Abstr. Algebra ii. 57 The correspondence is one–one and maps G1/H onto Im f.
1971 Sci. Amer. Aug. 94/3 The symbolism f:S→R expresses the fact that f causes each point of S to be assigned a value in R; the expression is usually read as ‘f maps S to R’ or, more formally, as ‘f is a function from S to R’.
1986 Telelink Sept.–Oct. 46/2 A translation table..allows you to map any Ascii character to any other.
1990 Proc. London Math. Soc. 60 236 Let SF(1, λ) be the set of elements in xλMF which are annihilated by every element of the q-Schur algebra which maps xλMF into some xμMF with μ[>]λ.
c. transitive. Linguistics. In transformational grammar: to associate (a linguistic element or group of these) with another element or group of elements by the application of a rule. With into, on to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > have syntactic relation with [verb (transitive)] > transform
map1955
rewrite1955
1955 N. Chomsky Theory Ling. Struct. (microfilm, Mass. Inst. Technol.) ii. 64 Φ is a mapping which, in particular, maps μ into the set of grammatical utterances.
1963 N. Chomsky in R. D. Luce et al. Handbk. Math. Psychol. II. xii. 346 We call M a transducer, which maps input strings into output strings and, correspondingly, input languages into output languages.
1964 N. Chomsky Current Issues in Ling. Theory i. 13 The second (transformational) subcomponent consists of a partially ordered set of complex operations called (grammatical) transformations, each of which maps a full Phrase-marker..of some terminal string..into a new derived Phrase-marker of a T-terminal string.
1973 Archivum Linguisticum 4 49 Frequently, they [sc. suffixes] are ‘mapped’ onto the verb as a kind of shorthand equivalent of a periphrastic form comprising personal pronoun + postposition of case.
1976 J. S. Gruber Lexical Struct. Syntax & Semantics ii. i. 242 The class of verbs that manifests only a to-phrase can be said to be characterized by a lexical attachment rule by which the underlying from-phrase is mapped into the verb itself.
1991 D. Crystal Dict. Linguistics & Phonetics (ed. 3) 211 In transformational grammar, the term is used specifically to refer to the process whereby a particular stage in the derivation of a sentence is formally related to a subsequent stage, e.g. an input phrase is ‘mapped’ by a set of transformations on to a derived phrase-marker.
d. transitive. Computing. To associate (an item of data) with a specified location in memory; to associate (a memory location) with a data item. With into, on to, to.
ΘΚΠ
society > computing and information technology > data > database > use data [verb (transitive)] > store > locate in memory
address1953
map1971
1963 IBM Systems Jrnl. 2 113 When several records map to the same address, those records in excess of the addressed area..are sometimes chained to a separate overflow area.]
1971 G. M. Bull & S. F. G. Packham Time-sharing Syst. iii. 59 With paging, instead of the whole user program being mapped into main memory, only a few of the currently active pages are in memory at one time.
1981 Byte Nov. 511/2 A mapping command allows the user to map program memory to PROM/EPROM.
1983 Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Aug. 22/3 The most interesting part of the design is the implementation of the 40/80-column text display, which uses a second page of static RAM mapped over the top of the usual 40-column text screen.
1986 D. Deutsch in T. C. Bartee Digital Communications v. 212 Its name is mapped into its address.
1991 Personal Computer World Feb. 170/2 All Sbus based memory is mapped onto on-board memory which itself is mapped onto the cache.

Phrasal verbs

With adverbs in specialized senses.† to map down
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To set down or delineate in or as in a map.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > [verb (transitive)]
map1596
to map outa1656
to map down1868
1868 A. Helps Realmah xiv, in Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 315/1 He is just the sort of quiet, observant fellow to be mapping all our characters down.
1871 R. Reece Whittington, Junior ii. 16 Stretched at my feet as in a page mapped down, Lies the long vistas of sweet Somers Town.
 to map out
1. transitive. Originally: †to record in minute detail, as if on a map (obsolete). Later: to plan or project; to envisage or outline; to describe or delineate.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)]
forethinkc897
bethinka1225
compass1297
contrivec1330
ordain1340
conjectc1380
imaginec1380
cast1382
ordaina1387
advisec1400
forecast1413
imagec1450
ordainc1450
project1477
foreminda1535
invent1539
aimc1540
practise1550
plat1556
trive1573
meditate1582
patterna1586
plot1589
platform1592
design1594
chew1600
forelay1605
to map out1618
to cut out1619
agitate1629
laya1631
plod1631
cut1645
calculate1654
concert1702
to scheme out1716
plan1718
model1725
to rough out1738
to lay out1741
plan1755
prethink1760
shape1823
programme1834
pre-plan1847
encompass1882
target1948
society > communication > record > [verb (transitive)] > minutely
to map out1618
1618 J. Hales Let. 15 Jan. 62 in Golden Remains (1659) One amongst them there is who hath taken the paines to Mappe out your behaviour since your first footing in the Synod.
1850 J. H. Newman Lect. Difficulties Anglicans 325 To map out the field of thought..and to ascertain its lie and its characteristics.
1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth I. xii. 262 Don't let us perplex ourselves with endeavouring to map out how she should feel, or how she should show her feelings.
1864 M. B. Chesnut Diary 1 Jan. in C. V. Woodward Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) xxi. 523 I mapped out a story of the war... Johnny is the hero.
1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius v A woman of her position probably..mapped out her year among her friends.
1891 Law Times 92 130/1 These volumes..map out before us the whole law affecting the marriage contract.
1955 Times 9 May 10/1 The suggestion was made..to set the ball rolling and map out the times in which later discussion should proceed.
a1957 D. Richardson Few Facts for You in Journey to Paradise (1989) 115 In 1908–10, escaped from London, she contributed a series of sketches to the Saturday Review and, at intervals, to various dailies. Pilgrimage was mapped out in 1909, in a summer house on a fruit farm.
1972 Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 1/1 A political plan mapped out by President Lanusse.
1994 U. Hegi Stones from River xvii. 397 ‘Are you saying he let himself get caught?’ ‘I don't believe he mapped it out like that.’
2. transitive. To represent in detail on a map or diagram. Also: to establish or mark out the position of (an object, a route, etc.) as for representation on a map or diagram.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > [verb (transitive)]
map1596
to map outa1656
to map down1868
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 387 He..thinkes it not needful to map out before the Traveller every Town, and Village of all the Shires, through which he should pass.
1828 S. Jenkins Story of Bronx (1912) ix. 199 Fourteen mill sites..were mapped out along the raceways.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xiv. §582 To present its orology, by mapping out the bottom of the ocean.
1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 363/1 Now photography is not only used for mapping out the known heavens, but the camera reveals to us the present of stars which the human eye has not seen.
1910 New Mag. Nov. 204/2 A new country was mapped out by those two men.
1931 P. Kerley Rec. Adv. in Radiol. iv. 76 It takes only twenty seconds for the operator to map out an outline with a pencil.
1995 Esquire Aug. 103/1 Sport, or ‘rad’..climbing routes are laid out in advance, mapped out by a series of permanent bolts already drilled into the rock.
3. transitive. To divide (a country, etc.) as by lines on a map.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > divide into administrative areas [verb (transitive)]
cantonize1608
canton1619
district1792
shire1810
to map out1860
1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 5 The territory of these countries was mapped out by no visible lines.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 248 The Continent was not then mapped out with tourists' routes.
1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men III. xlix. 264 The whole country shall be mapped out into districts.
2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names v. 104 Within minutes, she had requisitioned a church hall and taken charge of rehousing and relief in an area that she mapped out, between the Finchley and Edgware Roads.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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MAP
MAP n.
Brit. /map/
,
U.S. /mæp/
Manufacturing Technology and Computing Manufacturing Automation Protocol.
ΚΠ
1984 Control Engin. July 73/1 July 9, 1984, marks the first demonstration of a standard digital communications scheme for industrial automation, the General Motors Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP) Specifications. MAP will permit several different computers and programmable controllers to communicate.
1991 Sci. Amer. Aug. 85/1 Seven years ago General Motors helped to sign up an impressive roster of corporate luminaries for a traveling road show called MAP, or, more formally, Manufacturing Automation Protocol.
extracted from Mn.
M.A.P.
M.A.P. n. now historical (the former British) Ministry of Aircraft Production.
ΚΠ
1942 E. Partridge Dict. Abbrev. 60/1 M.A.P.
1946 Happy Landings (Air Ministry) July 1/2 Returning to England as Controller of Research and Development at M.A.P.
1953 Economist 14 Nov. 505/2 The Ministry of Aircraft Production. The problems that will confront the Atomic Energy Corporation have a family likeness..to those of MAP.
1957 R. Watson-Watt Three Steps to Victory xl. 233 Bickell,..Max's fidus Achates and ‘winger’ in M.A.P. and in the wide circles which rippled..out from that most explosive of Ministries.
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