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noun | verb mapmap1 /mæp/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] ETYMOLOGYmap1Origin: 1500-1600 Medieval Latin mappa, from Latin, cloth, towel ► on the map Let me show you how to get there on the map. ► reading maps 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) 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] VERB TABLEmap |
Present | I, you, we, they | map | | he, she, it | maps | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | mapped | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have mapped | | he, she, it | has mapped | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had mapped | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will map | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have mapped |
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Present | I | am mapping | | he, she, it | is mapping | | you, we, they | are mapping | Past | I, he, she, it | was mapping | | you, we, they | were mapping | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been mapping | | he, she, it | has been mapping | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been mapping | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be mapping | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been mapping |
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 |