单词 | map |
释义 | noun | verb mapmap1 /mæp/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] 1 social studies a drawing of an area of country showing rivers, roads, mountains, towns, etc., or of a whole country or several countries: map of a map of Texas Let me show you how to get there on the map. I’m no good at reading maps (=understanding maps).a road/street map (=a map that shows roads or streets rather than features of the land)2a drawing of an area that shows a particular feature such as the rocks, weather, population, etc.: a weather mapmap of an archeological map of the town3the structure of a political, social, etc. system and the way the parts relate to each other: Germany’s political map changed completely.4put something on the map to make a place, person, organization, etc. famous so that everyone knows it and talks about it: It was Ray Kroc that really put McDonald’s restaurants on the map. [Origin: 1500–1600 Medieval Latin mappa, from Latin, cloth, towel] → see also wipe something off the map at wipe1 (8) noun | verb mapmap2 ●○○ verb (mapped, mapping) [transitive] 1to make a map of a particular area: The spacecraft mapped the surface of Venus.2 (also map something ↔ out) to carefully plan how something will happen: Polk has already mapped out a 20-city tour for the band.3science, biology to find and record information about where a particular type of genetic information is on a chromosome |
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