Map
noun
A drawing or picture showing features of a specific area such as roads or landmarks.
I used a map to find my way to the restaurant.
Often appears as...
- road map
- world map
verb
To plan carefully how something will happen.
We need to map out our strategy for the next year.
Often appears as...
- map out
- map onto
noun
A particular way of representing or considering something.
This map of the market will help us define our business strategy.
Often appears as...
- mental map
- perceptual map
Usage tips
Academic
verb
In computing, to make a connection between two things so they work together properly.
The software automatically maps the keyboard keys to the correct functions.
Often appears as...
- map to
- map onto
noun
A drawing or picture showing features of a specific area such as roads or landmarks.
I used a map to find my way to the restaurant.
Often appears as...
- road map
- world map
verb
To plan carefully how something will happen.
We need to map out our strategy for the next year.
Often appears as...
- map out
- map onto
noun
A particular way of representing or considering something.
This map of the market will help us define our business strategy.
Often appears as...
- mental map
- perceptual map
Usage tips
Academic
verb
In computing, to make a connection between two things so they work together properly.
The software automatically maps the keyboard keys to the correct functions.
Often appears as...
- map to
- map onto
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Navigation Aid
Maps are tools to help you find directions and navigate to various places.
The hiking map showed all the trails and cabins.
Pro Tip 2/3Scale Representation
Maps are drawn to a specific scale, representing the real-world distance.
On this map, one centimeter equals 10 kilometers.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbol Usage
Maps use symbols like lines and colors to represent different things, like roads or rivers.
Red lines on the map indicate highways.
Pro Tip 1/3Navigation Aid
Maps are tools to help you find directions and navigate to various places.
The hiking map showed all the trails and cabins.
Pro Tip 2/3Scale Representation
Maps are drawn to a specific scale, representing the real-world distance.
On this map, one centimeter equals 10 kilometers.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbol Usage
Maps use symbols like lines and colors to represent different things, like roads or rivers.
Red lines on the map indicate highways.
Pro Tip 1/3Navigation Aid
Maps are tools to help you find directions and navigate to various places.
The hiking map showed all the trails and cabins.
Pro Tip 2/3Scale Representation
Maps are drawn to a specific scale, representing the real-world distance.
On this map, one centimeter equals 10 kilometers.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbol Usage
Maps use symbols like lines and colors to represent different things, like roads or rivers.
Red lines on the map indicate highways.
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Upgrading management...
hasn't used a mapping application to coach you on how to go anywhere new the first few times we rely on health trackers to help us achieve our fitness goals or in my case gently nudging me to eat less move more sleep and smile and our research for the dakota company we were encouraged to see a whole new wave
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What is bipolar...
This process is important because our neural pathways serve as a map for everything we do. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, scientists have discovered that the brain's pruning ability is disrupted in people with bipolar disorder. That means their neurons go haywire
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Are you a body with a...
If the body is deeply mapped in the brain, then by extending our sense of self to new wearable devices, our brains may eventually adapt to a restructured version with new sensory representations. Or perhaps uploading our consciousness into a computer might not even be possible
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Bill Gates: The next...
We've got cell phones to get information from the public and get information out to them. We have satellite maps where we can see where people are and where they're moving. We have advances in biology that should dramatically change the turnaround time to look at a pathogen
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Mapping the Highest Peak...
people know mount everest it's the tallest mountain in the world the big questions this expedition is answering is how climate change is happening in the high mountain regions maps are a critical tool for being able to measure the changes in the glacial
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How to build a fictional...
They make rules, maps, lineages, languages, cultures, universes, alternate universes within universes, and from those worlds sprout story, after story, after story. When it's done well, readers can understand fictional worlds and their rules
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Why is Vermeer's "Girl...
these merchants preferred middle class subjects depicted in spaces that looked like their own homes surrounded by familiar objects. The maps that appear in Vermeer's paintings, for example, were considered fashionable and worldly
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Best Spider Moments PIPE...
mission impossible not at all because of her third superpower porsche is a genius she can map her world in three dimensions
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Spider With Three Super...
She can map her world in three dimensions and formulate a plan of attack. She can have an idea.
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Top 5 Animal Adaptations...
she can map her world in three dimensions and formulate a plan of attack she can have an idea
Video examples
Upgrading management...
hasn't used a mapping application to coach you on how to go anywhere new the first few times we rely on health trackers to help us achieve our fitness goals or in my case gently nudging me to eat less move more sleep and smile and our research for the dakota company we were encouraged to see a whole new wave
Video examples
What is bipolar...
This process is important because our neural pathways serve as a map for everything we do. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, scientists have discovered that the brain's pruning ability is disrupted in people with bipolar disorder. That means their neurons go haywire
Video examples
Are you a body with a...
If the body is deeply mapped in the brain, then by extending our sense of self to new wearable devices, our brains may eventually adapt to a restructured version with new sensory representations. Or perhaps uploading our consciousness into a computer might not even be possible
Video examples
Bill Gates: The next...
We've got cell phones to get information from the public and get information out to them. We have satellite maps where we can see where people are and where they're moving. We have advances in biology that should dramatically change the turnaround time to look at a pathogen
Video examples
Mapping the Highest Peak...
people know mount everest it's the tallest mountain in the world the big questions this expedition is answering is how climate change is happening in the high mountain regions maps are a critical tool for being able to measure the changes in the glacial
Video examples
How to build a fictional...
They make rules, maps, lineages, languages, cultures, universes, alternate universes within universes, and from those worlds sprout story, after story, after story. When it's done well, readers can understand fictional worlds and their rules
Video examples
Why is Vermeer's "Girl...
these merchants preferred middle class subjects depicted in spaces that looked like their own homes surrounded by familiar objects. The maps that appear in Vermeer's paintings, for example, were considered fashionable and worldly
Video examples
Best Spider Moments PIPE...
mission impossible not at all because of her third superpower porsche is a genius she can map her world in three dimensions
Video examples
Spider With Three Super...
She can map her world in three dimensions and formulate a plan of attack. She can have an idea.
Video examples
Top 5 Animal Adaptations...
she can map her world in three dimensions and formulate a plan of attack she can have an idea
Example 1 of 10
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Jimmy Cliff
Jamaican Musician
It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.
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Kawhi Leonard
American Athlete
I could have gone to a bigger school. I use it as motivation going to a school that loved me. I wanted to put them on the map and show everyone that you don't need to go to a top school to make it in the NBA.
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Sid Sriram
Indian Musician
Growing up, everyone dreams of certain things, and they map out a direction that their life would take. Working with A. R. Rahman sir is one of my dreams, if not the biggest dream, realised.
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Eric Bischoff
American Businessman
If you go back in time and look at a map of all of the television markets where wrestling was most popular, historically, the deepest concentrations of those markets were in the northeast.
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Christy Turlington
American Model
Everybody is so anti-aging, but I don't want to look younger than I am. Our face is a map of our life; the more that's there, the better.
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Will Patton
American Actor
I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
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Orlando Bloom
English Actor
People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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Les Brown
American Speaker
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
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Sean Hannity
American Writer
I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.
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Max Azria
French Designer
The world map looks smaller than ever before.
Quote examples
Jimmy Cliff
Jamaican Musician
It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.
Quote examples
Kawhi Leonard
American Athlete
I could have gone to a bigger school. I use it as motivation going to a school that loved me. I wanted to put them on the map and show everyone that you don't need to go to a top school to make it in the NBA.
Quote examples
Sid Sriram
Indian Musician
Growing up, everyone dreams of certain things, and they map out a direction that their life would take. Working with A. R. Rahman sir is one of my dreams, if not the biggest dream, realised.
Quote examples
Eric Bischoff
American Businessman
If you go back in time and look at a map of all of the television markets where wrestling was most popular, historically, the deepest concentrations of those markets were in the northeast.
Quote examples
Christy Turlington
American Model
Everybody is so anti-aging, but I don't want to look younger than I am. Our face is a map of our life; the more that's there, the better.
Quote examples
Will Patton
American Actor
I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
Quote examples
Orlando Bloom
English Actor
People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
Quote examples
Les Brown
American Speaker
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Quote examples
Sean Hannity
American Writer
I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.
Quote examples
Max Azria
French Designer
The world map looks smaller than ever before.
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