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We used a trail map to find the lake.
What does Map mean?
A map shows where selected places or parts are; to map is to represent, connect, or plan them.
Dictionary definition
A drawing, digital display, or other representation that shows where selected places, features, or parts are in relation to one another. As a verb, map means to represent or record locations and arrangements, connect one set of information to another, or plan something in detail. On the map can mean well known, while all over the map can mean spread widely or lacking a clear focus.
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The weather map uses colours to show temperature.
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A star map shows the relative positions of objects in the night sky.
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Scientists mapped the river and recorded each wetland.
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The program maps each student name to an identification number.
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The team mapped out the steps needed to finish the project.
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The festival put the small town on the map.
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His first draft was all over the map, so he reorganized the ideas.
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What makes a geographic map useful?
Maps use symbols, scale, and selection to represent where features are in relation to one another.
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Which sentence uses map in a non-geographic technical sense?
Here maps means connects each item in one set with an item in another set.
Practice 3
What does map out mean in “Let’s map out our research project”?
Map out commonly means organize or plan the steps of something carefully.
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Partnoun, verb.
MeaningMap means A map shows where selected places or parts are; to map is to represent, connect, or plan them.
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Does Map have an opposite?
Map has no general direct opposite. Unmapped describes an area not yet represented, but an unmapped area is not the opposite object or action.
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Word family
Map word family
Base word
map
noun
maps
More than one map; it is also the present-tense verb used with he, she, or it.
verb
mapped
Represented, recorded, connected, or planned in the past.
noun
mapping
The process of making maps or connecting corresponding information; it also functions as a verb form.
noun
mapmaker
A person who makes maps; cartographer is the specialist term.
adjective
unmapped
Not yet shown or recorded on a map.
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Hint for students
Look for a representation of locations or arrangements, the action of recording them, a connection between information sets, a detailed plan, or an idiom about fame or scattered ideas.
Common mix-up
A map is not a perfect copy of a place. It selects information and uses symbols, scale, and projection. In idioms, on the map can mean well known and all over the map can mean widely spread or unfocused.
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Give groups two maps of the same area with different purposes. Students compare titles, legends, scale, and omitted features, then explain which map answers each of three questions best.
Teacher prompt
Use the model sentence “The same city looks different on a road map and a population map.” Ask students how purpose changes the features and symbols a map includes.
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