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单词 to map out
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to map out
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.
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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.
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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.
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