CHART

chart

(noun) a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea

chart

(noun) (usually plural) a listing of best-selling recorded music; “number 2 on the charts”

chart, graph

(noun) a visual display of information

chart

(verb) plan in detail; “Bush is charting a course to destroy Saddam Hussein”

graph, chart

(verb) represent by means of a graph; “chart the data”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

chart (plural charts)

A map.

A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.

A navigator's map.

A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.

A tabular presentation of data; a table.

A diagram.

A graph.

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

A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.

A written deed; a charter.

(topology) A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas

Verb

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

(transitive) To draw a chart or map of.

(transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan).

(transitive) To record systematically.

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

Anagrams

• ratch, trach

Source: Wiktionary

Chart, n. Etym: [A doublet of card: cf. F. charte charter, carte card. See Card, and cf. Charter.]

1. A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

2. A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.

3. A written deed; a charter. Globular chart, a chart constructed on a globular projection. See under Globular.

– Heliographic chart, a map of the sun with its spots.

– Mercator's chart, a chart constructed on the principle of Mercator's projection. See Projection.

– Plane chart, a representation of some part of the superficies of the globe, in which its spherical form is disregarded, the meridians being drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude at equal distances.

– Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon.

– Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region.

Chart, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charted.]

Definition: To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition