Synonyms:
chart
Meaning: a visual display of information
Synonyms:
chart
Meaning: a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
chart
Meaning: make a chart of; "chart the territory"
Synonyms:
chart
Meaning: plan in detail; "Bush is charting a course to destroy Saddam Hussein"
Usage examples
As we pulled over, there was some discussion on the chart.
Futile the winds To a heart in port, -- Done with the compass, Done with the chart.
That was the chart which he had just solemnly pledged himself to the country faithfully to follow.
The captain approached, placed a finger over a position on the chart, and pronounced just one word:
It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart.
We brought up just where the anchor was in the chart, about a third of a mile from each shore, the mainland on one side and Skeleton Island on the other.
They had been supplied with a quadrant, a compass, a chart, and some small arms and ammunition, from a Dutch ship that lay there; and the expedition was conducted by the Governor's fisherman, whose time of transportation was expired.
From the ship we could see nothing of the house or stockade, for they were quite buried among trees; and if it had not been for the chart on the companion, we might have been the first that had ever anchored there since the island arose out of the seas.
Dr. Bremiker had not, indeed, completed his great work--a chart of the whole zodiac down to stars of the tenth magnitude--but portions of it were completed, and the special region where the new planet was expected happened to be among the portions already just done.
This will have necessitated a previous drawing up of a chart, showing just what is to be planted and where. As this chart will be the cause of considerable hard feeling in the family circle, usually precipitating a fist-fight over the number of rows of onions to be set out, I will not touch on that in this article.