CHART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chart mean? 

• CHART (noun)
  The noun CHART has 3 senses:

1. a visual display of information

2. a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea

3. (usually plural) a listing of best-selling recorded music

  Familiarity information: CHART used as a noun is uncommon.

• CHART (verb)
  The verb CHART has 3 senses:

1. make a chart of

2. plan in detail

3. represent by means of a graph

  Familiarity information: CHART used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A visual display of information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

chart; graph

Hypernyms ("chart" is a kind of...):

visual communication (communication that relies on vision)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chart"):

plot (a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object)

organization chart (a chart showing the lines of responsibility between departments of a large organization)

color chart (a chart displaying colors)

bar chart; bar graph (a chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities)

eye chart (a chart that is read from a fixed distance; used as a test of vision)

flip chart (a chart with several sheets hinged at the top; sheets can be flipped over to present information sequentially)

slide chart (a hand-held device, usually of paper, cardboard, or plastic, for conducting simple calculations or looking up information)

pie chart (a circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole)

star chart (a chart showing the relative positions of the stars in a particular part of the sky)

profile (an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics)

Derivation:

chart (represent by means of a graph)

chartist (a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A map designed to assist navigation by air or sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chart" is a kind of...):

map (a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chart"):

naval chart; navigational chart; pilot chart (a chart for a navigator showing the prevailing meteorological and hydrographic and navigational conditions)

Derivation:

chart (make a chart of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(usually plural) a listing of best-selling recorded music

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

number 2 on the charts

Hypernyms ("chart" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

• CHART (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they chart    ... he / she / it charts   
Past simple: charted   
Past participle: charted   
-ing form: charting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a chart of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

chart the territory

Hypernyms (to "chart" is one way to...):

map (make a map of; show or establish the features of details of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

chart (a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Plan in detail

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

Bush is charting a course to destroy Saddam Hussein

Hypernyms (to "chart" is one way to...):

plan (make plans for something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Represent by means of a graph

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

chart; graph

Context example:

chart the data

Hypernyms (to "chart" is one way to...):

interpret; represent (create an image or likeness of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

chart (a visual display of information)

chartist (a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities)

 Context examples 

“We want that treasure, and we'll have it—that's our point! You would just as soon save your lives, I reckon; and that's yours. You have a chart, haven't you?”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You need no chart of directions now, since you will have the inestimable advantage of my own guidance.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The eighth house is the place in the chart that represents money you need to fund a big dream, and it is typically money beyond what most people have in reserve.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Event in which data (charting, orders, results) is not correctly stored, transferred, updated, or displayed.

(Improper Data Manipulation Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

You've probably seen your chart at your doctor's office.

(Personal Health Records, NIH)

A charted band of wavelengths of electromagnetic vibrations.

(Electromagnetic Spectrum, NCI Thesaurus)

Reconstructions of Earth's climate record have relied largely on summer conditions, charting fluctuations through vegetation-based samples, such as tree ring width, pollen and organisms that thrive in the warmer growing season.

(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)

According to the researchers, the findings suggest generalisability of the data across populations and a possibility of developing individualised risk prediction charts for allergic respiratory diseases.

(New Approach to Predict Respiratory Allergy in Early Childhood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers first created unique standardized growth charts from general population data for 3 social characteristics that are often impaired in people with ASD: face recognition memory, gaze fixation, and facial emotion recognition.

(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)

Body surface area (BSA) can be calculated by mathematical formula or from a chart that relates height to weight.

(Body Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)