chart
UK/tʃɑːt//t͡ʃɑɹt/
chart noun: a map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
Noun
chart (plural charts)
- A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
- A navigator's map.
- A tabular presentation of data; a table.
- A diagram.
- 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...2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106
- A graph.
- 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?2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864
- A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
- I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.
- A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
- They're at the top of the charts again this week.
- A written deed; a charter.
- Synonym of coordinate chart.
- Synonyms:
- coordinate chart
- A predefined sequence of notes (i.e. inputs), typically timed to a song or excerpt thereof.
Verb
chart (third-person singular simple present charts, present participle charting, simple past and past participle charted)
- To draw a chart or map of.
- chart the seas
- 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.
- To record systematically.
- To enter (medical information) into a medical record.
- Did you chart the urine output yet?
- To enter (medical information) into a medical record.
- To appear on a hit-recording chart.
- The song has charted for 15 weeks!
- The band first charted in 1994.
chart meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
chart in Hindi
- non-narrative presentation of data
- लेखाचित्र lekhācitra, चार्ट cārṭ
chart in Tamil
- விளக்க அட்டவணை, சுவர்ப்படம், கப்பல், வானூர்தி பயணவரைபடம், வரைபடம்
chart in Urdu
- خریطہ, نقشہ
chart in Bengali
- তালিকা, মানচিত্র, নকশা, বর্ণনাচিত্র, সামুদ্রি মানচিত্র
More languagesFewer languages
- chart in Telugu
- చార్ట్, చార్టు, చార్టుకు
- chart in Malayalam
- ഭൂപടം bhūpaṭaṁ
- chart in Kannada
- ಚಾರ್ಟು cārṭu
- chart in Gujarati
- ચાર્ટ, ચાર્ટ કરવા માટે
- chart in Odia
- ଚାର୍ଟ, ଚାର୍ଟ୍
- chart in Nepali
- चार्ट
- chart in Tagalog
- taltaguhit
- chart in Arabic
- مُخَطَّط بَيَانِيّ muḵaṭṭaṭ bayāniyy, مُخَطَط muḵaṭaṭ
- chart in Indonesian
- tangga lagu
- chart in Thai
- ผัง pǎng, แผนผัง pɛ̌ɛn-pǎng, ชาร์ต, กราฟ gráaf
- chart in Vietnamese
- biểu đồ, đồ biểu
- chart in Myanmar
- ကားချပ် ka:hkyap
Examples of chart in a sentence
- This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
- The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.
- Make a blow-up of the chart so we have more room to draw on it.
Synonyms of chart
Forms of chart
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | charts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | charts |
| present participle | charting |
| past participle | charted |
| past | charted |
Origin of chart
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”). Doublet of card and carte; related to charter.
Words formed from chart
- alignment chart
- ancestral chart
- bar chart
- birth chart
- bottle chart
- Bristol stool chart
- candle chart
- candlestick chart
- chartbook
- chartbuster
- chartbusting
- chart-caller
- chart caller
- chart datum
- charted
- charthouse
- charticle
- chartism
- chartist
- chartjunk
- chartless
- chartlike
- chart music
- chart of accounts
- chartometer
- chart plotter
- chartroom
- chart table
- chart-topper
- chart-topping
- chartwise
- chartwork
- chip chart
- claim chart
- cobweb chart
- control chart
- coxcomb chart
- draconic chart
- drum chart
- E chart
- eye chart
- flipchart
- flip chart
- flow chart
- funnel chart
- Gantt chart
- geochart
- H-S chart
- iceberg chart
- ICE chart
- Kagi chart
- knitting chart
- lap chart
- lap-chart
- line chart
- Macbeth chart
- Marimekko chart
- Moody chart
- multi-vari chart
- music chart
Phrases with chart
- org chart
- pie chart
- PMI chart
- pop chart
- sea chart
- web chart
- PERT chart
- PICK chart
- RICE chart
- ring chart
- spie chart
- star chart
36 more phrasesFewer phrases
- step chart
- time chart
- wall chart
- Great Chart
- natal chart
- Nolan chart
- potty chart
- radar chart
- Smith chart
- stick chart
- Vosem chart
- chart tables
- chart topper
- record chart
- spider chart
- chart callers
- chart toppers
- off the chart
- seating chart
- Snellen chart
- weather chart
- chart plotters
- nautical chart
- sunburst chart
- polar bar chart
- Pournelle chart
- spaghetti chart
- coordinate chart
- tumbling E chart
- navigational chart
- organisation chart
- organization chart
- psychrometric chart
- organisational chart
- organizational chart
- Great Chart with Singleton
Words that rhyme with chart
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Questions about chart
- What does chart mean?
- Chart means a map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
- What is chart in Hindi?
- Chart in Hindi is लेखाचित्र (lekhācitra), चार्ट (cārṭ). See Chart meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chart?
- Chart can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce chart?
- Chart is pronounced /t͡ʃɑɹt/ (US).
- What is the plural of chart?
- The plural of chart is charts.
Words near chart in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chart (page history and authors); chart (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chart (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chart (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chart (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ഭൂപടം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಚಾರ್ಟು (Kannada) (page history and authors); chart (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chart (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chart (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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