chart

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

• IPA^(key): /tʃɑɹt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)t

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.
      • 2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:

        Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

   3. A graph.
      • 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:

        Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?

   4. A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.

      I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.

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

      They're at the top of the charts again this week.

3. A written deed; a charter.
4. (topology) A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas

Derived terms

terms derived from chart (noun)

• ancestral chart
• bar chart
• chartbook
• charted
• chart house
• charticle
• chartjunk
• chartless
• chartometer
• chartroom
• control chart
• eye chart
• flipchart
• flow chart
• music chart
• organization chart
• org chart
• PERT chart
• pie chart
• psychrometric chart
• record chart
• spaghetti chart
• star chart
• step chart
• wallchart
• weather chart

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: チャート (chāto)
• → Korean: 차트 (chateu)

Translations

map — see map

navigator's map

• Bulgarian: морска карта (morska karta)
• Finnish: merikortti (fi)
• French: carte (fr) f
• German: Karte (de) f
• Italian: carta (it), carta nautica, carta geografica
• Latin: carta f
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• Macedonian: карта f (karta)
• Portuguese: carta náutica f
• Romanian: hartă maritimă f
• Russian: морска́я ка́рта f (morskája kárta)
• Scottish Gaelic: cairt f, cairt-iùil f

non-narrative presentation of data

• Arabic: مُخَطَّط بَيَانِيّ m (muḵaṭṭaṭ bayāniyy), مُخَطَط m (muḵaṭaṭ)
• Belarusian: гра́фік m (hráfik), дыягра́ма f (dyjahráma)
• Bulgarian: диаграма (bg) f (diagrama), графика (bg) f (grafika)
• Burmese: ကားချပ် (my) (ka:hkyap)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圖表／图表 (zh) (túbiǎo), 图表 (zh) (túbiǎo)

• Czech: graf (cs) m
• Finnish: kaavio (fi), taulukko (fi)
• French: graphe (fr) m, diagnostiques (fr) f pl (colloq)
• German: Diagramm (de) n, Schaubild n
• Hindi: लेखाचित्र m (lekhācitra), चार्ट (cārṭ)
• Irish: graf m
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• Japanese: チャート (ja) (chāto), 図表 (ずひょう, zuhyō)
• Khmer: តារាង (km) (taaraang)
• Korean: 차트 (ko) (chateu), 도표 (dopyo)
• Macedonian: графико́н m (grafikón), дијаграм m (dijagram)
• Maori: mahere, tūtohi
• Portuguese: diagrama (pt) m, gráfico (pt) m
• Russian: гра́фик (ru) m (gráfik), диагра́мма (ru) f (diagrámma), чертёж (ru) m (čertjóž) (drawing), рису́нок (ru) m (risúnok) (drawing), набро́сок (ru) m (nabrósok) (sketch)
• Scottish Gaelic: cairt f
• Tagalog: taltaguhit
• Thai: ผัง (th) (pǎng), แผนผัง (th) (pɛ̌ɛn-pǎng), ชาร์ต
• Ukrainian: гра́фік m (hráfik), діагра́ма f (diahráma)
• Vietnamese: biểu đồ (vi), đồ biểu

ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music

• Catalan: llista d'èxits f
• Galician: lista de éxitos f
• German: Hitliste (de) f, Chart (de) m or n
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• Portuguese: parada musical f
• Spanish: lista de éxitos f

table — see table

diagram — see diagram

graph — see graph

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To draw a chart or map of.
2. (transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan).

   Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.

   We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.

3. (transitive) To record systematically.
4. (intransitive, of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.

   The song has charted for 15 weeks!

   The band first charted in 1994.

Derived terms

• chartable
• rechart

Translations

draw a chart or map

• Bulgarian: картирам (kartiram)
• Finnish: kartoittaa (fi)
• German: zeichnen (de)
• Irish: graf
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• Macedonian: црта (crta), траси́ра (trasíra)
• Swedish: kartlägga (sv)

draw or figure out a route or plan

• Finnish: laatia (fi)
• German: zeichnen (de)
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• Macedonian: црта (crta), траси́ра (trasíra)

Related terms

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

Anagrams

• ratch, trach

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Lower Sorbian

chart

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xart]

Noun

chart m ?

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

Declension

Declension of chart

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	chart	charta	charty
Genitive	charta	chartowu	chartow
Dative	chartoju	chartoma	chartam
Accusative	charta	chartowu	charty, chartow
Instrumental	chartom	chartoma	chartami
Locative	charśe	chartoma	chartach

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

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Polish

chart

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xart/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: hart

Noun

1. greyhound; sighthound

Declension

Declension of chart

	singular	plural
nominative	chart	charty
genitive	charta	chartów
dative	chartowi	chartom
accusative	charta	charty
instrumental	chartem	chartami
locative	charcie	chartach
vocative	charcie	charty

Derived terms

• (adjective) charci

Related terms

• (nouns) charcię, charciątko, charciczka, charciarz

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Spanish

Noun

chart m (plural charts)

1. chart