chart

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French charte (“card, map”), from Late Latin charta (“paper, card, map”), Latin charta (“papyrus, writing”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, thin sheet”). See charter, card, carte.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tʃɑːt/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
• Homophone: chaat (non-rhotic)

Noun

chart (plural charts)

1. A map.
   1. A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
   2. A navigator's map.
2. A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.
   1. A tabular presentation of data; a table.
   2. A diagram.
   3. A graph.
   4. A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.

      Hypernym: medical record (formerly synonymous; loosely still so)

   5. A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.

3. A written deed; a charter.
4. (differential geometry, topology) Synonym of coordinate chart.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: チャート (chāto)
• → Korean: 차트 (chateu)
• → Swahili: chati
• → Welsh: siart

Translations

Verb

chart (third-person singular simple present charts, present participle charting, simple past and past participle charted)

2. (transitive) To draw a chart or map of.

4. (transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
6. (transitive) To record systematically.
   1. To enter (medical information) into a medical record.

8. (intransitive, of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.

Derived terms

• chartable
• outchart
• rechart

Translations

Related terms

• card
• cartography
• cartoon
• cartouche
• charter
• Chartist
• Magna Carta

Anagrams

• ratch, archt., trach, archt

Irish

Verb

chart

1. analytic past indicative of cart

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ, cognate with Polish chart, Czech chrt, Ukrainian хорт (xort), Serbo-Croatian hȑt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xart]

Noun

chart m anim

1. greyhound (lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing)

Declension

Hypernyms

• pjas m (“dog”)

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “chart”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “chart”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxart/
• Rhymes: -art
• Syllabification: chart
• Homophone: hart

Noun

chart m animal (female equivalent charcica, diminutive charcik)

1. greyhound; sighthound

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• chart in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• chart in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English chart, from French charte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɾt/ [ˈt͡ʃaɾt̪]
• Rhymes: -aɾt
• Syllabification: chart

Noun

chart m (plural charts)

1. chart