map

Meanings

Noun

• A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
• A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
• A function.
• Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana (species)) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
• The face.
• An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.

Verb

• To represent by means of a map.
• To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.
• To have a direct relationship; to correspond.
• To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
• To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
• To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.

Related

Similar words

• plan
• chart
• mapping, function.
• level, stage.

Narrower meaning words

• argument map
• concept map
• Hénon map
• mind map
• overworld map
• roadmap
• texture map
• thematic map
• topic map

Origin

• Shortening of Middle English mappemounde, mapemounde, from Old French mapamonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundī, compound of Latin mappa and mundus. See mop for the first component.