map

A picture showing where places, roads, or other features are in an area.

• I need a map of the town.
• She found the village on her map.
• These maps show all the walking routes.

How to use it: map of somewhere (We bought a map of the city.)

Similar words: chart

Common phrases: read a map, road map, map of somewhere, world map

A butterfly whose wings have patterns that look like lines on a picture of an area.

• A map butterfly landed on a leaf.
• The European map has different wing colours in spring and summer.
• We photographed a map with its wings open.

Common phrases: map butterfly, European map

To explore or measure an area and make a picture showing its places and features.

• They mapped the island.
• Satellites help us map the ocean floor.
• The team is mapping a route through the mountains.

Similar words: chart, survey

Common phrases: map an area, map the coast, map a route

If you do this, you draw a picture or diagram to show how something is arranged.

• Let us map the main ideas.
• She mapped out the links between the characters.
• The diagram maps the structure of the organisation.

How to use it: map something out (We mapped the process out on a large sheet of paper.)

Similar words: diagram, chart

Common phrases: map something out, map the connections

To connect each value in one set to a value in another set through a rule.

• The rule maps two to four.
• This function maps every input to a single output.
• Each element is mapped to a point on the curve.

How to use it: map A to B (The function maps each number to its square.); map onto something (This function maps the interval onto the whole line.)

Common phrases: map to something, map onto something