MAPQUEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does MapQuest mean? 

• MAPQUEST (noun)
  The noun MAPQUEST has 1 sense:

1. a free, widely-used Web Map Server

  Familiarity information: MAPQUEST used as a noun is very rare.

• MAPQUEST (verb)
  The verb MAPQUEST has 1 sense:

1. search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program

  Familiarity information: MAPQUEST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAPQUEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A free, widely-used Web Map Server

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

Web Map Server; Web Map Service (a computer program that produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information)

Derivation:

mapquest (search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program)

Domain usage:

trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)

• MAPQUEST (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

you can just mapquest the restaurant

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

explore; research; search (inquire into)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

MapQuest (a free, widely-used Web Map Server)