Definition of map in English:

map

nounPlural maps map

1A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
地图；海图
a street map
街道地图。
Example sentencesExamples
- Zonal maps and land use patterns under the master plan will be displayed.
- These directives are based on normal real estate valuation principles and are appended with land maps for each urban area.
- It might be compared with the modern Arnhem Land maps of the same area that I tried to find later, but which were merely a patchwork of uranium leases.
- But the CIA-produced Moscow Street Guide remained by far the best map of the city.
- But the M25 was closed for maintenance coming back and I was forced ‘off road’ without a map.
- They will come into place when all the conclusive maps of access land have been published and the Secretary of State has authorised their commencement.
- In fact, I've been looking at my road map planning my drive up to Sydney, and I realised something.
- Think of how superior a map showing roads, terrain, rivers, and cities is to one showing just a featureless land mass.
- The exhibition features maps and plans of the proposed regeneration schemes as well as explanations of the designs and the work behind the ideas.
- City council minutes for 1911 and 1912 make no mention of any gift, and city maps do not show a park in that area of town.
- The maps represent arbitrary chunks of city terrain; city transit maps are included separately.
- The military planner must have a good local city street map and aerial photos.
- The discovery of the city wall remains was not a surprise to the City Council as maps had pinpointed Peter Street as a location for the historic ruins.
- A spokesman for the Highways Department arrived with a map with eight road humps marked in for Emily Street and four for Marborough Street.
- I found a street map of the whole area, and spent an hour looking at it.
- Well a map will help of course, but not all city maps are up to date and only the best among them provide an index of city streets.
- He grabbed a map of the City… and began mapping out an area that he was going to cover in tonight's run.
- You have to identify a street with a name, using a map or a road sign.
- The Roads Management Service have put on display the revised maps for the road alterations to be carried out at Harbour Road and Manse Road.
- There have been no measures initiated nor a road map charted out, to rectify such fiscal imbalances and to restore balance for long term growth.
Synonyms
plan, chart
1. 1.1 A two-dimensional representation of the positions of stars or other astronomical objects.
  天体图
  she went inside to check a star map
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Southern Fish is usually depicted on star maps at the feet of Aquarius, where it swallows up the water poured from his urn.
  He touched the planet on the star map, and it listed statistics on the planet itself.
  He looked at the star maps to see if there were any habitable planets or moons in the area.
  Physicists and astronomers set about trying to identify this imprint in maps of our own galactic neighbourhood.
  If it is visible the site will give you a star map showing where the ISS is, its path over the sky and the exact time when it can be seen.
  A corollary of this is to have star maps and a red light with you, so that you can look up the location of anything you haven't memorized how to find yet.
  The platform was actually some kind of map to the stars above with thousands of tiny specks of light dotting the dark blue steel.
  The couple use special star maps to help create as authentic a night sky as possible, with everything in its correct place.
  The most significant difference between the two maps was the relative position of RAPD359.
  At astronomy, the last class, neither Jordan nor David spoke a word that didn't have to do with plotting stars on a map.
  It took them less than 30 minutes to locate a star not on their map.
  Admiral Leverios was speaking to the assembled group while pointing at something on a star map.
  She reached in and pulled out a solar map, with one star highlighted.
2. 1.2 A diagram or collection of data showing the spatial arrangement or distribution of something over an area.
  分布图
  an electron density map
  电子密度分布图。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The DLSM spatial maps of the fluctuation decay rates of the imaged cells confirm this finding.
  The complete diffraction data, once obtained, can be used to construct the electron density map of the unit cell.
  Together this provides a map of solute distribution in space and time.
  The blue-colored image above shows some low-resolution electron density maps of the holoenzyme.
  The radiolabelled object is then exposed to a photographic emulsion to obtain a map of radionuclide distribution.
  In the spatial maps, computed concentrations less than zero were set equal to zero.
  Synonyms
  plan, chart
3. 1.3Biology A representation of the sequence of genes on a chromosome or of bases in a DNA or RNA molecule.
  〔生〕（基因）图谱
  a physical and genetic map of the entire human genome
  Example sentencesExamples
  Arrows below the gene map indicate primers used in PCR analysis of the P-element insertions.
  The od gene on the Z chromosome of the classical map of the silkworm is located on group 3.
  Generation of entire chromosomal maps has been a central problem in genetics right from its early years.
  An integrated map of all 21 chromosomes based on 436 deletion lines was constructed.
  Lines below the chromosomal map indicate the deleted region with the arrow pointing in the direction of the deletion.
4. 1.4Mathematics
  another term for mapping
  Example sentencesExamples
  This work gave an algebraic classification of maps from polyhedra to spheres.
  However, Ulam did make a fundamental contribution in proposing the antipodal map theorem.
  It is generally regarded as a study of the iteration of maps, of time evolution of differential equations, and of group actions on manifolds.
  In the quadratic map, very small changes to alpha make enormous changes on how the system behaves.
  Two algebraic varieties are said to be equivalent if there is a one-to-one correspondence between them with both the map and its inverse regular.
2dated, informal A person's face.
〈非正式，旧〉脸，面孔
you ought to know my map by now
Example sentencesExamples
- He placed a claw against her lips, his face a map of exhaustion, but with a gentle smile.
- After an initial fit of entitlement, Ralph went and looked at his sister, his face a sorrowful map of genuine concern.

verbmaps, mapped, mapping map

[with object]

1Represent (an area) on a map; make a map of.
在地图上标示（一块地区）；绘制…的图
inaccessible parts will be mapped from the air
无法进入的地区的地图将采用航拍进行绘制。
Example sentencesExamples
- Has he seen the extent of the flood plain in a one in a 100-year flood in this area, as mapped by the Environment Agency?
- An understanding of coastal landforms and the processes acting upon them can be used to map areas at risk from cliff failure, beach erosion, and flooding.
- He was also to map the area between Pine Creek and the West Australian border.
- We mapped the study area using a compass, range finder, and measuring tape; the map was then analyzed in a digitized format.
- Now, with the aid of oil industry technology, the area off Utah and Omaha beaches in Normandy will be mapped, revealing exactly where the tanks were buried.
- This permitted us to map the local jamming area and determine the boundaries of the jamming range.
- We mapped the area and decided that there was a large prospect up from it about 55 kilometres long.
- Gabbro Rock outcrops were scattered throughout the preserve but were not mapped because of their small area.
- This system maps an area, showing where objects, that might be mines, are.
- And yet before the area was properly mapped, mere vigilance was not enough, as the long list of ships wrecked and lives lost proves.
- The maps also show patterns of cancer that might escape notice if larger areas were mapped.
- Because of the sprawling size of the area to be mapped, preliminary observation was done by car, and then on foot.
- Suppose we map an area and find that it looks like the image at right.
- Although it gets quite frustrating, players will quickly learn that a fair bit of each mapped area is not accessible.
- Each time WFCAM maps an area of sky, it will generate an image of over 250 million pixels.
- The act gives ramblers the right to walk freely across mapped areas of open country, including mountains, moors and registered common land.
- In-mine mapping revealed a similar degree of erosion down to the coal in parts of all four mapped areas, which were about 1.6 km apart.
- The Chapman Corridor Bushcare Group plans to eventually survey and map the park to provide a picture of the park's flora health.
- Even if the area is mapped as access land, you will not be able to walk within 20m of a dwelling, or in gardens or courtyards within the curtilage of a property, unless a right of way already exists.
- If a house was on a noisy street, the realtor would show them one in an area so remote it probably had not yet been mapped.
Synonyms
chart, plot, delineate, draw, depict, portray, survey
1. 1.1 Record in detail the spatial distribution of (something)
  绘制…空间分布形态图
  the project to map the human genome
  人类基因图谱绘制计划。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Amazingly, a rough draft of the entire human genome was mapped by the year 2000.
  Witmer was able to map the likely position of cartilage, blood vessels and other soft tissues that made up the nasal cavities of dinosaurs.
  But who can name the guys who mapped the human genome first, for example?
  The entire human genome-every bit of DNA-has been mapped out by the Human Genome Project.
  Abnormal flow patterns can also be recorded and used, for example, to map jets of blood leaking from damaged valves.
  Businessweek has an article about the Beijing Genome Institute which mapped the rice genome earlier this year.
  To achieve this goal we map the spatial distribution of volcanic seismic facies units.
  The scientist whose company first mapped the human genome has formed a company to create life.
  Animal models and their corresponding genomes are highly useful for mapping traits that may apply to human diseases.
  For my class project I chose to map the foraging patterns of a nesting Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher.
  We have mapped the human genome and embarked on identifying and curing heretofore intractable genetic conditions.
  Testing of these models requires that the spatial and temporal distribution of strain and vorticity domains be mapped out across the slab.
  The researchers are also using the markers as a guide in mapping the sugar beet genome.
  Or, mapping the human genome could be judged as the greatest advance in the history of our species since we stood up on two legs.
  One of the promises of the human genome project which identified and mapped the genes on our chromosomes was that it could help to target medications better.
  Such thinking in the scientific community prompted the ambitious plan to map the human genome.
  As mapping the human genome reveals the actual evolution of the organism, so the history of culture traces an essential source of human personality.
  He was one of the guys who founded Celera Genomics, the first company to map the human genome.
  Although scientists have now successfully mapped the human genome, the next step is to make sense of it.
  But mapping the genomes of animals such as pigs, cows, chickens and sheep is turning out to be every bit as significant.
2. 1.2with object and adverbial Associate (a group of elements or qualities) with an equivalent group, according to a particular formula or model.
  映现
  the transformational rules map deep structures into surface structures
  转换规则将深层结构映现为表层结构。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In particular, the k coloring problem can be mapped directly onto a model of a magnetic system in solid-state physics.
  It would be possible to work through the classification describing how each kind of loop maps into different spatial and temporal orderings.
  We reported on this issue in our first investigative piece, when we found that the behavior maps to a specific position of the view camera.
3. 1.3Mathematics Associate each element of (a set) with an element of another set.
  〔数〕映射
  the direct sum of two rings A and B may be mapped homomorphically on the summand
  Example sentencesExamples
  These latent variables are essential for linkage mapping and association mapping.
4. 1.4map on toMathematics no object Be associated with or linked to.
  与…有关，与…有联系
  if more than one suffix can be mapped on to the end of a word then the longest is chosen for removal
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although Riemann had given a proof of the theorem that any simply connected region of the plane can be mapped conformally onto a disc, his proof involved using the Dirichlet problem.
  For instance, if lattice dimensions are N x, N y, N z and N t and the dimensions of the machine are n x, n y, n z and n t, then the number of lattice points mapped on to a node will be N x/n x * N y/n y * N z/n z * N t/n t.
  Cantor showed in 1878 that the unit interval I can be mapped bijectively onto the unit square I 2.

Phrases

all over the map

informal In a disorganized or confused state.
they both have economic policies that are all over the map

off the map

(of a place) very distant or remote.
偏远的，遥远的
she grew up in a hick town, right off the map
不过是个乡村小镇，上不了地图。
Example sentencesExamples
- The filmmaker sought to examine the mental stress experienced by the population in a place off the map or at the world's end.
- Sakhalin is off the map, a fleck on the flank of Asia.
Synonyms
isolated, remote, out of the way, outlying, off the beaten track, in the depths of …, hard to find, lonely, in the back of beyond, in the hinterlands, off the map, in the middle of nowhere, godforsaken, obscure, inaccessible, cut-off, tucked away, unreachable

put someone/something on the map

Bring someone or something to prominence.
使…出名
one big international polo tournament could really put our club on the map
Example sentencesExamples
- It will give the club a considerable boost and really put us on the map again after the disappointments of losing Yorkshire county cricket.
- This exhibit put us on the map in Michigan and Ohio, and brought in major collectors and a visit from the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts.
- Those fine Kerry Scotch Blackface sheep that you came across so regularly today all spring from the improvement brought about by this pioneering association which put the breed on the map.
- I want to put this club on the map and, hopefully, turn Molesey into a footballing name.
- It offers tours of the slightly faded villa buildings with movie trinkets including posters of The Night of the Iguana, the film that put Puerto Vallarta on the map for Americans.
- He hopes to open a cabaret club in April which, he said, would put Bradford on the map and stop the drift of people to other areas.
- That investment in the film industry will put New Zealand on the map, and, as a country, we are all very proud of it.
- I want to put the city back on the map and bring people from other parts of the country and see something different here.
- We're disappointed not to get through but it puts our club on the map again.
- Masi, one of the most famous producers in this region, has put Venetian wines on the map.

wipe something off the map

Obliterate something totally.
从地图上抹掉，彻底消灭
there was enough gunpowder to wipe half the island off the map
Example sentencesExamples
- Some of these areas are accessible now only by helicopter because the roads were just completely wiped off the map by the earthquake.
- Well, in about 30 seconds, pretty much everyone's gonna attack this place, wipe it off the map.
- Three cities were wiped off the map in a month because of that war.
- He exterminates his enemies and wipes whole tribes off the map.
- The newsman talked about how the town of Jonesboro in the northeastern edge of the state had been wiped off the map by an F5 tornado.
- More than a few times I shouted angrily and cursed the opposition as they came flying down with superior aerial units to wipe my units off the map near the 30-second mark.
- The war was not yet over; Britain still maintained strong garrisons in New York and Charlestown, but the only effective field army in the colonies had been wiped off the map with a few strokes from Washington and Cornwallis' pen.
- Well, in the region where Hurricane Rita came ashore, some small rural towns were nearly wiped off the map.
- The US already has enough firepower to wipe a nation off the map and kill millions upon millions of people.
- As many as 1,000 villages and towns were either damaged or wiped off the map.
Synonyms
get rid of, eliminate, do away with, remove, suppress

Phrasal Verbs

map something out

Plan a route or course of action in detail.
筹划，作详细计划
she mapped out a plan of action in ten minutes
Example sentencesExamples
- The sequences of these three episodes were very interesting because three entirely different strategies were mapped out for each day.
- He explained: ‘It's not that we've just got the one way of playing, but if we do change we really do know what we're doing because it has been mapped out beforehand.’
- If we uncover the road, we will have to map it out and give the details to the county archaeologist.
- I could map it out more thoroughly, but eh, what do you expect for free?
- The event was briefed, and every contingency was mapped out.
- Even if, at the time, I was not exactly the happiest person in the world to see him, the day that he came after me was the day that the rest of my life was mapped out.
- In my view there is a God out there and our lives are mapped out for us.
- At a recent California conference, organised by the ATM Forum, strategies were mapped out for the development of standards for delivering streaming media and the like more reliably over existing carrier infrastructures.
- So they can actually map these things out and get a pretty good sense of exactly what they're going to do on this model before they actually do it in real life.
- A series of policies will be mapped out soon to develop private medical institutions.
- Having previously recorded on location, he knew what was required and had mapped things out in detail beforehand.
- Details for the resolution will be mapped out by high-ranking officials of the two countries, he added.
- In 2002 when perpetual roadblocks became a thorn in the flesh of Lusaka bus drivers, a strategy was mapped out in Chawama to end the problem.
- An analysis was made of the moral and psychological state of the servicemen and their family members, the existing social and housing problems were revealed and ways were mapped out of dealing with them.
- And I realized that, with my lifestyle, where I come from, my culture, in a sense my whole life was mapped out for me,’ she says, struggling to find the words to explain.
- Then a route was mapped out to take in as many different species and articles of interest as possible.
- A number of concrete measures were mapped out, he said after a tete-a-tete with the director of the Russian border service.
- Previously, the dirt and turf courses were mapped out in detail while receiving devices were installed that would track the transmitter.
- Today, having mapped it out, I'm not following that pattern.
- I like to know in advance what the day will consist of, so I can map it out in my mind.
Synonyms
outline, set out, lay out, sketch out, trace out, rough out, block out, delineate, detail, draw up

Derivatives

mapless

adjective

And for foreign visitors, who have only had access to the country for the last ten years, it might as well be a mapless frontier.
Example sentencesExamples
- Zanzibar is the island of cloves and ivory and it is where Livingstone and the other Victorian explorers began their treks into the mapless nothing.
- Having started early so we wouldn't be too late, our mapless path only partly resembled chaos as depicted by a two-year-old left alone for an hour in a large white room with a big black crayon.
- To me, it says that whether you look at pop as a guided tour or a mapless adventure is not important - what matters are the people you're travelling with.
- This appears to be the mapless voyage of the Conservative Party, now wondering if they should boldly go to that land into which they said they would never stray - namely Europe and the euro.

mappable

adjective

Work in the Appalachians has demonstrated the degree to which the implicit assumption, that shortening is accomplished by displacement on mappable fault planes, can lead to severe underestimates of the amount of shortening.
Example sentencesExamples
- Elsewhere in southern England, detailed mapping of the Chalk has shown it can be divided into the Grey and White Chalk subgroups, themselves further subdivided into mappable units of formation status.
- The conservative project, to the degree that it still exists in a meaningful sense, exists in massive tension with neo-liberalism, and much of the contradictions of our world are mappable along this point of fracture.
- Is it hopelessly romantic to trust that human life, for all its knowable genetic specificities, lies in those larger territories, beyond commerce, for which there are no mappable equivalents?
- We strongly disagree with the suggestion by James that it is critical for our interpretation that both the top and bottom of the low density, and low velocity, shale interval is seismically mappable.

mapper

noun

Last year farmers blocked access to the vegetation mappers.
Example sentencesExamples
- The geological charts were drawn by British army mappers between 1845 and 1887 and are used predominantly by engineering firms, county councils and other organisations for planning purposes.
- Object-relational mappers, as such software is often known, bridges the gap between the object-oriented and relational worlds, which treat data in fundamentally different ways.
- Matthews, a previous Pulitzer nominee for Where The Buffalo Roam, is a meticulous mapper of Manhattan's diverse animal population.
- Soon, political mappers will know more about you than the Department of Homeland Security.

Origin

Early 16th century: from medieval Latin mappa mundi, literally 'sheet of the world', from Latin mappa 'sheet, napkin' + mundi 'of the world' (genitive of mundus).

Rhymes

bap, cap, chap, clap, dap, entrap, enwrap, flap, frap, gap, giftwrap, hap, knap, lap, Lapp, nap, nappe, pap, rap, sap, schappe, scrap, slap, snap, strap, tap, trap, wrap, yap, zap

map¹

nounmapmæp

1A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
地图；海图
a street map
街道地图。
figurative expansion of the service sector is reshaping the map of employment
〈喻〉服务业的扩张正在改变就业的结构。
Example sentencesExamples
- The maps represent arbitrary chunks of city terrain; city transit maps are included separately.
- But the CIA-produced Moscow Street Guide remained by far the best map of the city.
- These directives are based on normal real estate valuation principles and are appended with land maps for each urban area.
- But the M25 was closed for maintenance coming back and I was forced ‘off road’ without a map.
- You have to identify a street with a name, using a map or a road sign.
- The Roads Management Service have put on display the revised maps for the road alterations to be carried out at Harbour Road and Manse Road.
- Zonal maps and land use patterns under the master plan will be displayed.
- There have been no measures initiated nor a road map charted out, to rectify such fiscal imbalances and to restore balance for long term growth.
- It might be compared with the modern Arnhem Land maps of the same area that I tried to find later, but which were merely a patchwork of uranium leases.
- The exhibition features maps and plans of the proposed regeneration schemes as well as explanations of the designs and the work behind the ideas.
- Well a map will help of course, but not all city maps are up to date and only the best among them provide an index of city streets.
- He grabbed a map of the City… and began mapping out an area that he was going to cover in tonight's run.
- A spokesman for the Highways Department arrived with a map with eight road humps marked in for Emily Street and four for Marborough Street.
- They will come into place when all the conclusive maps of access land have been published and the Secretary of State has authorised their commencement.
- I found a street map of the whole area, and spent an hour looking at it.
- City council minutes for 1911 and 1912 make no mention of any gift, and city maps do not show a park in that area of town.
- In fact, I've been looking at my road map planning my drive up to Sydney, and I realised something.
- The military planner must have a good local city street map and aerial photos.
- The discovery of the city wall remains was not a surprise to the City Council as maps had pinpointed Peter Street as a location for the historic ruins.
- Think of how superior a map showing roads, terrain, rivers, and cities is to one showing just a featureless land mass.
Synonyms
plan, chart
1. 1.1 A two-dimensional representation of the positions of stars or other astronomical objects.
  天体图
  Example sentencesExamples
  The platform was actually some kind of map to the stars above with thousands of tiny specks of light dotting the dark blue steel.
  If it is visible the site will give you a star map showing where the ISS is, its path over the sky and the exact time when it can be seen.
  Physicists and astronomers set about trying to identify this imprint in maps of our own galactic neighbourhood.
  The most significant difference between the two maps was the relative position of RAPD359.
  The couple use special star maps to help create as authentic a night sky as possible, with everything in its correct place.
  He touched the planet on the star map, and it listed statistics on the planet itself.
  At astronomy, the last class, neither Jordan nor David spoke a word that didn't have to do with plotting stars on a map.
  She reached in and pulled out a solar map, with one star highlighted.
  The Southern Fish is usually depicted on star maps at the feet of Aquarius, where it swallows up the water poured from his urn.
  He looked at the star maps to see if there were any habitable planets or moons in the area.
  It took them less than 30 minutes to locate a star not on their map.
  A corollary of this is to have star maps and a red light with you, so that you can look up the location of anything you haven't memorized how to find yet.
  Admiral Leverios was speaking to the assembled group while pointing at something on a star map.
2. 1.2 A diagram or collection of data showing the spatial arrangement or distribution of something over an area.
  分布图
  an electron density map
  电子密度分布图。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The complete diffraction data, once obtained, can be used to construct the electron density map of the unit cell.
  Together this provides a map of solute distribution in space and time.
  The blue-colored image above shows some low-resolution electron density maps of the holoenzyme.
  The DLSM spatial maps of the fluctuation decay rates of the imaged cells confirm this finding.
  The radiolabelled object is then exposed to a photographic emulsion to obtain a map of radionuclide distribution.
  In the spatial maps, computed concentrations less than zero were set equal to zero.
  Synonyms
  plan, chart
3. 1.3Biology A representation of the sequence of genes on a chromosome or of bases in a DNA or RNA molecule.
  〔生〕（基因）图谱
  Example sentencesExamples
  Generation of entire chromosomal maps has been a central problem in genetics right from its early years.
  An integrated map of all 21 chromosomes based on 436 deletion lines was constructed.
  Arrows below the gene map indicate primers used in PCR analysis of the P-element insertions.
  Lines below the chromosomal map indicate the deleted region with the arrow pointing in the direction of the deletion.
  The od gene on the Z chromosome of the classical map of the silkworm is located on group 3.
4. 1.4Mathematics
  another term for mapping
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is generally regarded as a study of the iteration of maps, of time evolution of differential equations, and of group actions on manifolds.
  This work gave an algebraic classification of maps from polyhedra to spheres.
  Two algebraic varieties are said to be equivalent if there is a one-to-one correspondence between them with both the map and its inverse regular.
  However, Ulam did make a fundamental contribution in proposing the antipodal map theorem.
  In the quadratic map, very small changes to alpha make enormous changes on how the system behaves.
2dated, informal A person's face.
〈非正式，旧〉脸，面孔
Example sentencesExamples
- After an initial fit of entitlement, Ralph went and looked at his sister, his face a sorrowful map of genuine concern.
- He placed a claw against her lips, his face a map of exhaustion, but with a gentle smile.

verbmapmæp

[with object]

1Represent (an area) on a map; make a map of.
在地图上标示（一块地区）；绘制…的图
inaccessible parts will be mapped from the air
无法进入的地区的地图将采用航拍进行绘制。
Example sentencesExamples
- The act gives ramblers the right to walk freely across mapped areas of open country, including mountains, moors and registered common land.
- Although it gets quite frustrating, players will quickly learn that a fair bit of each mapped area is not accessible.
- Gabbro Rock outcrops were scattered throughout the preserve but were not mapped because of their small area.
- This system maps an area, showing where objects, that might be mines, are.
- The maps also show patterns of cancer that might escape notice if larger areas were mapped.
- Each time WFCAM maps an area of sky, it will generate an image of over 250 million pixels.
- We mapped the study area using a compass, range finder, and measuring tape; the map was then analyzed in a digitized format.
- Because of the sprawling size of the area to be mapped, preliminary observation was done by car, and then on foot.
- Even if the area is mapped as access land, you will not be able to walk within 20m of a dwelling, or in gardens or courtyards within the curtilage of a property, unless a right of way already exists.
- An understanding of coastal landforms and the processes acting upon them can be used to map areas at risk from cliff failure, beach erosion, and flooding.
- Now, with the aid of oil industry technology, the area off Utah and Omaha beaches in Normandy will be mapped, revealing exactly where the tanks were buried.
- We mapped the area and decided that there was a large prospect up from it about 55 kilometres long.
- In-mine mapping revealed a similar degree of erosion down to the coal in parts of all four mapped areas, which were about 1.6 km apart.
- He was also to map the area between Pine Creek and the West Australian border.
- The Chapman Corridor Bushcare Group plans to eventually survey and map the park to provide a picture of the park's flora health.
- Suppose we map an area and find that it looks like the image at right.
- If a house was on a noisy street, the realtor would show them one in an area so remote it probably had not yet been mapped.
- This permitted us to map the local jamming area and determine the boundaries of the jamming range.
- Has he seen the extent of the flood plain in a one in a 100-year flood in this area, as mapped by the Environment Agency?
- And yet before the area was properly mapped, mere vigilance was not enough, as the long list of ships wrecked and lives lost proves.
Synonyms
chart, plot, delineate, draw, depict, portray, survey
1. 1.1 Record in detail the spatial distribution of (something)
  绘制…空间分布形态图
  the project to map the human genome
  人类基因图谱绘制计划。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Such thinking in the scientific community prompted the ambitious plan to map the human genome.
  Abnormal flow patterns can also be recorded and used, for example, to map jets of blood leaking from damaged valves.
  Or, mapping the human genome could be judged as the greatest advance in the history of our species since we stood up on two legs.
  Amazingly, a rough draft of the entire human genome was mapped by the year 2000.
  He was one of the guys who founded Celera Genomics, the first company to map the human genome.
  Testing of these models requires that the spatial and temporal distribution of strain and vorticity domains be mapped out across the slab.
  The researchers are also using the markers as a guide in mapping the sugar beet genome.
  One of the promises of the human genome project which identified and mapped the genes on our chromosomes was that it could help to target medications better.
  But who can name the guys who mapped the human genome first, for example?
  To achieve this goal we map the spatial distribution of volcanic seismic facies units.
  The entire human genome-every bit of DNA-has been mapped out by the Human Genome Project.
  Businessweek has an article about the Beijing Genome Institute which mapped the rice genome earlier this year.
  For my class project I chose to map the foraging patterns of a nesting Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher.
  Animal models and their corresponding genomes are highly useful for mapping traits that may apply to human diseases.
  The scientist whose company first mapped the human genome has formed a company to create life.
  We have mapped the human genome and embarked on identifying and curing heretofore intractable genetic conditions.
  But mapping the genomes of animals such as pigs, cows, chickens and sheep is turning out to be every bit as significant.
  Witmer was able to map the likely position of cartilage, blood vessels and other soft tissues that made up the nasal cavities of dinosaurs.
  As mapping the human genome reveals the actual evolution of the organism, so the history of culture traces an essential source of human personality.
  Although scientists have now successfully mapped the human genome, the next step is to make sense of it.
2. 1.2 Associate (a group of elements or qualities) with an equivalent group, according to a particular formula or model.
  映现
  the transformational rules map deep structures into surface structures
  转换规则将深层结构映现为表层结构。
  Example sentencesExamples
  We reported on this issue in our first investigative piece, when we found that the behavior maps to a specific position of the view camera.
  In particular, the k coloring problem can be mapped directly onto a model of a magnetic system in solid-state physics.
  It would be possible to work through the classification describing how each kind of loop maps into different spatial and temporal orderings.
3. 1.3Mathematics Associate each element of (a set) with an element of another set.
  〔数〕映射
  Example sentencesExamples
  These latent variables are essential for linkage mapping and association mapping.
4. 1.4Mathematics no object Be associated or linked to something.
  与…有关，与…有联系
  it is not obvious that the subprocesses of language will map onto individual brain areas
  要说语言的次过程和大脑的各个不同区域相联系，这还不明显。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Cantor showed in 1878 that the unit interval I can be mapped bijectively onto the unit square I 2.
  Although Riemann had given a proof of the theorem that any simply connected region of the plane can be mapped conformally onto a disc, his proof involved using the Dirichlet problem.
  For instance, if lattice dimensions are N x, N y, N z and N t and the dimensions of the machine are n x, n y, n z and n t, then the number of lattice points mapped on to a node will be N x/n x * N y/n y * N z/n z * N t/n t.

Phrases

all over the map

informal In a disorganized or confused state.
they both have economic policies that are all over the map

off the map

(of a place) very distant or remote.
偏远的，遥远的
just a hick town, right off the map
不过是个乡村小镇，上不了地图。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sakhalin is off the map, a fleck on the flank of Asia.
- The filmmaker sought to examine the mental stress experienced by the population in a place off the map or at the world's end.
Synonyms
isolated, remote, out of the way, outlying, off the beaten track, in the depths of …, hard to find, lonely, in the back of beyond, in the hinterlands, off the map, in the middle of nowhere, godforsaken, obscure, inaccessible, cut-off, tucked away, unreachable

put someone/something on the map

Bring someone or something to prominence.
使…出名
the exhibition put Cubism on the map
这次展览使立体派出了名。
Example sentencesExamples
- He hopes to open a cabaret club in April which, he said, would put Bradford on the map and stop the drift of people to other areas.
- I want to put this club on the map and, hopefully, turn Molesey into a footballing name.
- Masi, one of the most famous producers in this region, has put Venetian wines on the map.
- It will give the club a considerable boost and really put us on the map again after the disappointments of losing Yorkshire county cricket.
- This exhibit put us on the map in Michigan and Ohio, and brought in major collectors and a visit from the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts.
- It offers tours of the slightly faded villa buildings with movie trinkets including posters of The Night of the Iguana, the film that put Puerto Vallarta on the map for Americans.
- I want to put the city back on the map and bring people from other parts of the country and see something different here.
- Those fine Kerry Scotch Blackface sheep that you came across so regularly today all spring from the improvement brought about by this pioneering association which put the breed on the map.
- That investment in the film industry will put New Zealand on the map, and, as a country, we are all very proud of it.
- We're disappointed not to get through but it puts our club on the map again.

wipe something off the map

Obliterate something totally.
从地图上抹掉，彻底消灭
Example sentencesExamples
- The war was not yet over; Britain still maintained strong garrisons in New York and Charlestown, but the only effective field army in the colonies had been wiped off the map with a few strokes from Washington and Cornwallis' pen.
- The US already has enough firepower to wipe a nation off the map and kill millions upon millions of people.
- As many as 1,000 villages and towns were either damaged or wiped off the map.
- The newsman talked about how the town of Jonesboro in the northeastern edge of the state had been wiped off the map by an F5 tornado.
- He exterminates his enemies and wipes whole tribes off the map.
- Well, in about 30 seconds, pretty much everyone's gonna attack this place, wipe it off the map.
- Three cities were wiped off the map in a month because of that war.
- Some of these areas are accessible now only by helicopter because the roads were just completely wiped off the map by the earthquake.
- More than a few times I shouted angrily and cursed the opposition as they came flying down with superior aerial units to wipe my units off the map near the 30-second mark.
- Well, in the region where Hurricane Rita came ashore, some small rural towns were nearly wiped off the map.
Synonyms
get rid of, eliminate, do away with, remove, suppress

Phrasal Verbs

map something out

Plan a route or course of action in detail.
筹划，作详细计划
I mapped out a route over familiar country near home
我费心计划了一条离家很近的路线，沿途是熟悉的乡村。
Example sentencesExamples
- Previously, the dirt and turf courses were mapped out in detail while receiving devices were installed that would track the transmitter.
- Even if, at the time, I was not exactly the happiest person in the world to see him, the day that he came after me was the day that the rest of my life was mapped out.
- A series of policies will be mapped out soon to develop private medical institutions.
- I like to know in advance what the day will consist of, so I can map it out in my mind.
- I could map it out more thoroughly, but eh, what do you expect for free?
- Then a route was mapped out to take in as many different species and articles of interest as possible.
- In 2002 when perpetual roadblocks became a thorn in the flesh of Lusaka bus drivers, a strategy was mapped out in Chawama to end the problem.
- The sequences of these three episodes were very interesting because three entirely different strategies were mapped out for each day.
- At a recent California conference, organised by the ATM Forum, strategies were mapped out for the development of standards for delivering streaming media and the like more reliably over existing carrier infrastructures.
- And I realized that, with my lifestyle, where I come from, my culture, in a sense my whole life was mapped out for me,’ she says, struggling to find the words to explain.
- The event was briefed, and every contingency was mapped out.
- A number of concrete measures were mapped out, he said after a tete-a-tete with the director of the Russian border service.
- Details for the resolution will be mapped out by high-ranking officials of the two countries, he added.
- So they can actually map these things out and get a pretty good sense of exactly what they're going to do on this model before they actually do it in real life.
- If we uncover the road, we will have to map it out and give the details to the county archaeologist.
- An analysis was made of the moral and psychological state of the servicemen and their family members, the existing social and housing problems were revealed and ways were mapped out of dealing with them.
- Today, having mapped it out, I'm not following that pattern.
- Having previously recorded on location, he knew what was required and had mapped things out in detail beforehand.
- He explained: ‘It's not that we've just got the one way of playing, but if we do change we really do know what we're doing because it has been mapped out beforehand.’
- In my view there is a God out there and our lives are mapped out for us.
Synonyms
outline, set out, lay out, sketch out, trace out, rough out, block out, delineate, detail, draw up

Origin

Early 16th century: from medieval Latin mappa mundi, literally ‘sheet of the world’, from Latin mappa ‘sheet, napkin’ + mundi ‘of the world’ (genitive of mundus).

MAP²

abbreviation

Modified American plan.
See American plan

词汇	map
释义	Definition of map in English: map nounPlural maps map 1A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc. 地图；海图 a street map 街道地图。 Example sentencesExamples Zonal maps and land use patterns under the master plan will be displayed. These directives are based on normal real estate valuation principles and are appended with land maps for each urban area. It might be compared with the modern Arnhem Land maps of the same area that I tried to find later, but which were merely a patchwork of uranium leases. But the CIA-produced Moscow Street Guide remained by far the best map of the city. But the M25 was closed for maintenance coming back and I was forced ‘off road’ without a map. They will come into place when all the conclusive maps of access land have been published and the Secretary of State has authorised their commencement. In fact, I've been looking at my road map planning my drive up to Sydney, and I realised something. Think of how superior a map showing roads, terrain, rivers, and cities is to one showing just a featureless land mass. The exhibition features maps and plans of the proposed regeneration schemes as well as explanations of the designs and the work behind the ideas. City council minutes for 1911 and 1912 make no mention of any gift, and city maps do not show a park in that area of town. The maps represent arbitrary chunks of city terrain; city transit maps are included separately. The military planner must have a good local city street map and aerial photos. The discovery of the city wall remains was not a surprise to the City Council as maps had pinpointed Peter Street as a location for the historic ruins. A spokesman for the Highways Department arrived with a map with eight road humps marked in for Emily Street and four for Marborough Street. I found a street map of the whole area, and spent an hour looking at it. Well a map will help of course, but not all city maps are up to date and only the best among them provide an index of city streets. He grabbed a map of the City… and began mapping out an area that he was going to cover in tonight's run. You have to identify a street with a name, using a map or a road sign. The Roads Management Service have put on display the revised maps for the road alterations to be carried out at Harbour Road and Manse Road. There have been no measures initiated nor a road map charted out, to rectify such fiscal imbalances and to restore balance for long term growth. Synonyms plan, chart 1.1 A two-dimensional representation of the positions of stars or other astronomical objects. 天体图 she went inside to check a star map Example sentencesExamples The Southern Fish is usually depicted on star maps at the feet of Aquarius, where it swallows up the water poured from his urn. He touched the planet on the star map, and it listed statistics on the planet itself. He looked at the star maps to see if there were any habitable planets or moons in the area. Physicists and astronomers set about trying to identify this imprint in maps of our own galactic neighbourhood. If it is visible the site will give you a star map showing where the ISS is, its path over the sky and the exact time when it can be seen. A corollary of this is to have star maps and a red light with you, so that you can look up the location of anything you haven't memorized how to find yet. The platform was actually some kind of map to the stars above with thousands of tiny specks of light dotting the dark blue steel. The couple use special star maps to help create as authentic a night sky as possible, with everything in its correct place. The most significant difference between the two maps was the relative position of RAPD359. At astronomy, the last class, neither Jordan nor David spoke a word that didn't have to do with plotting stars on a map. It took them less than 30 minutes to locate a star not on their map. Admiral Leverios was speaking to the assembled group while pointing at something on a star map. She reached in and pulled out a solar map, with one star highlighted. 1.2 A diagram or collection of data showing the spatial arrangement or distribution of something over an area. 分布图 an electron density map 电子密度分布图。 Example sentencesExamples The DLSM spatial maps of the fluctuation decay rates of the imaged cells confirm this finding. The complete diffraction data, once obtained, can be used to construct the electron density map of the unit cell. Together this provides a map of solute distribution in space and time. The blue-colored image above shows some low-resolution electron density maps of the holoenzyme. The radiolabelled object is then exposed to a photographic emulsion to obtain a map of radionuclide distribution. In the spatial maps, computed concentrations less than zero were set equal to zero. Synonyms plan, chart 1.3Biology A representation of the sequence of genes on a chromosome or of bases in a DNA or RNA molecule. 〔生〕（基因）图谱 a physical and genetic map of the entire human genome Example sentencesExamples Arrows below the gene map indicate primers used in PCR analysis of the P-element insertions. The od gene on the Z chromosome of the classical map of the silkworm is located on group 3. Generation of entire chromosomal maps has been a central problem in genetics right from its early years. An integrated map of all 21 chromosomes based on 436 deletion lines was constructed. Lines below the chromosomal map indicate the deleted region with the arrow pointing in the direction of the deletion. 1.4Mathematics another term for mapping Example sentencesExamples This work gave an algebraic classification of maps from polyhedra to spheres. However, Ulam did make a fundamental contribution in proposing the antipodal map theorem. It is generally regarded as a study of the iteration of maps, of time evolution of differential equations, and of group actions on manifolds. In the quadratic map, very small changes to alpha make enormous changes on how the system behaves. Two algebraic varieties are said to be equivalent if there is a one-to-one correspondence between them with both the map and its inverse regular. 2dated, informal A person's face. 〈非正式，旧〉脸，面孔 you ought to know my map by now Example sentencesExamples He placed a claw against her lips, his face a map of exhaustion, but with a gentle smile. After an initial fit of entitlement, Ralph went and looked at his sister, his face a sorrowful map of genuine concern. verbmaps, mapped, mapping map [with object] 1Represent (an area) on a map; make a map of. 在地图上标示（一块地区）；绘制…的图 inaccessible parts will be mapped from the air 无法进入的地区的地图将采用航拍进行绘制。 Example sentencesExamples Has he seen the extent of the flood plain in a one in a 100-year flood in this area, as mapped by the Environment Agency? An understanding of coastal landforms and the processes acting upon them can be used to map areas at risk from cliff failure, beach erosion, and flooding. He was also to map the area between Pine Creek and the West Australian border. We mapped the study area using a compass, range finder, and measuring tape; the map was then analyzed in a digitized format. Now, with the aid of oil industry technology, the area off Utah and Omaha beaches in Normandy will be mapped, revealing exactly where the tanks were buried. This permitted us to map the local jamming area and determine the boundaries of the jamming range. We mapped the area and decided that there was a large prospect up from it about 55 kilometres long. Gabbro Rock outcrops were scattered throughout the preserve but were not mapped because of their small area. This system maps an area, showing where objects, that might be mines, are. And yet before the area was properly mapped, mere vigilance was not enough, as the long list of ships wrecked and lives lost proves. The maps also show patterns of cancer that might escape notice if larger areas were mapped. Because of the sprawling size of the area to be mapped, preliminary observation was done by car, and then on foot. Suppose we map an area and find that it looks like the image at right. Although it gets quite frustrating, players will quickly learn that a fair bit of each mapped area is not accessible. Each time WFCAM maps an area of sky, it will generate an image of over 250 million pixels. The act gives ramblers the right to walk freely across mapped areas of open country, including mountains, moors and registered common land. In-mine mapping revealed a similar degree of erosion down to the coal in parts of all four mapped areas, which were about 1.6 km apart. The Chapman Corridor Bushcare Group plans to eventually survey and map the park to provide a picture of the park's flora health. Even if the area is mapped as access land, you will not be able to walk within 20m of a dwelling, or in gardens or courtyards within the curtilage of a property, unless a right of way already exists. If a house was on a noisy street, the realtor would show them one in an area so remote it probably had not yet been mapped. Synonyms chart, plot, delineate, draw, depict, portray, survey 1.1 Record in detail the spatial distribution of (something) 绘制…空间分布形态图 the project to map the human genome 人类基因图谱绘制计划。 Example sentencesExamples Amazingly, a rough draft of the entire human genome was mapped by the year 2000. Witmer was able to map the likely position of cartilage, blood vessels and other soft tissues that made up the nasal cavities of dinosaurs. But who can name the guys who mapped the human genome first, for example? The entire human genome-every bit of DNA-has been mapped out by the Human Genome Project. Abnormal flow patterns can also be recorded and used, for example, to map jets of blood leaking from damaged valves. Businessweek has an article about the Beijing Genome Institute which mapped the rice genome earlier this year. To achieve this goal we map the spatial distribution of volcanic seismic facies units. The scientist whose company first mapped the human genome has formed a company to create life. Animal models and their corresponding genomes are highly useful for mapping traits that may apply to human diseases. For my class project I chose to map the foraging patterns of a nesting Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher. We have mapped the human genome and embarked on identifying and curing heretofore intractable genetic conditions. Testing of these models requires that the spatial and temporal distribution of strain and vorticity domains be mapped out across the slab. The researchers are also using the markers as a guide in mapping the sugar beet genome. Or, mapping the human genome could be judged as the greatest advance in the history of our species since we stood up on two legs. One of the promises of the human genome project which identified and mapped the genes on our chromosomes was that it could help to target medications better. Such thinking in the scientific community prompted the ambitious plan to map the human genome. As mapping the human genome reveals the actual evolution of the organism, so the history of culture traces an essential source of human personality. He was one of the guys who founded Celera Genomics, the first company to map the human genome. Although scientists have now successfully mapped the human genome, the next step is to make sense of it. But mapping the genomes of animals such as pigs, cows, chickens and sheep is turning out to be every bit as significant. 1.2with object and adverbial Associate (a group of elements or qualities) with an equivalent group, according to a particular formula or model. 映现 the transformational rules map deep structures into surface structures 转换规则将深层结构映现为表层结构。 Example sentencesExamples In particular, the k coloring problem can be mapped directly onto a model of a magnetic system in solid-state physics. It would be possible to work through the classification describing how each kind of loop maps into different spatial and temporal orderings. We reported on this issue in our first investigative piece, when we found that the behavior maps to a specific position of the view camera. 1.3Mathematics Associate each element of (a set) with an element of another set. 〔数〕映射 the direct sum of two rings A and B may be mapped homomorphically on the summand Example sentencesExamples These latent variables are essential for linkage mapping and association mapping. 1.4map on toMathematics no object Be associated with or linked to. 与…有关，与…有联系 if more than one suffix can be mapped on to the end of a word then the longest is chosen for removal Example sentencesExamples Although Riemann had given a proof of the theorem that any simply connected region of the plane can be mapped conformally onto a disc, his proof involved using the Dirichlet problem. For instance, if lattice dimensions are N x, N y, N z and N t and the dimensions of the machine are n x, n y, n z and n t, then the number of lattice points mapped on to a node will be N x/n x * N y/n y * N z/n z * N t/n t. Cantor showed in 1878 that the unit interval I can be mapped bijectively onto the unit square I 2. Phrases all over the map informal In a disorganized or confused state. they both have economic policies that are all over the map off the map (of a place) very distant or remote. 偏远的，遥远的 she grew up in a hick town, right off the map 不过是个乡村小镇，上不了地图。 Example sentencesExamples The filmmaker sought to examine the mental stress experienced by the population in a place off the map or at the world's end. Sakhalin is off the map, a fleck on the flank of Asia. Synonyms isolated, remote, out of the way, outlying, off the beaten track, in the depths of …, hard to find, lonely, in the back of beyond, in the hinterlands, off the map, in the middle of nowhere, godforsaken, obscure, inaccessible, cut-off, tucked away, unreachable put someone/something on the map Bring someone or something to prominence. 使…出名 one big international polo tournament could really put our club on the map Example sentencesExamples It will give the club a considerable boost and really put us on the map again after the disappointments of losing Yorkshire county cricket. This exhibit put us on the map in Michigan and Ohio, and brought in major collectors and a visit from the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Those fine Kerry Scotch Blackface sheep that you came across so regularly today all spring from the improvement brought about by this pioneering association which put the breed on the map. I want to put this club on the map and, hopefully, turn Molesey into a footballing name. It offers tours of the slightly faded villa buildings with movie trinkets including posters of The Night of the Iguana, the film that put Puerto Vallarta on the map for Americans. He hopes to open a cabaret club in April which, he said, would put Bradford on the map and stop the drift of people to other areas. That investment in the film industry will put New Zealand on the map, and, as a country, we are all very proud of it. I want to put the city back on the map and bring people from other parts of the country and see something different here. We're disappointed not to get through but it puts our club on the map again. Masi, one of the most famous producers in this region, has put Venetian wines on the map. wipe something off the map Obliterate something totally. 从地图上抹掉，彻底消灭 there was enough gunpowder to wipe half the island off the map Example sentencesExamples Some of these areas are accessible now only by helicopter because the roads were just completely wiped off the map by the earthquake. Well, in about 30 seconds, pretty much everyone's gonna attack this place, wipe it off the map. Three cities were wiped off the map in a month because of that war. He exterminates his enemies and wipes whole tribes off the map. The newsman talked about how the town of Jonesboro in the northeastern edge of the state had been wiped off the map by an F5 tornado. More than a few times I shouted angrily and cursed the opposition as they came flying down with superior aerial units to wipe my units off the map near the 30-second mark. The war was not yet over; Britain still maintained strong garrisons in New York and Charlestown, but the only effective field army in the colonies had been wiped off the map with a few strokes from Washington and Cornwallis' pen. Well, in the region where Hurricane Rita came ashore, some small rural towns were nearly wiped off the map. The US already has enough firepower to wipe a nation off the map and kill millions upon millions of people. As many as 1,000 villages and towns were either damaged or wiped off the map. Synonyms get rid of, eliminate, do away with, remove, suppress Phrasal Verbs map something out Plan a route or course of action in detail. 筹划，作详细计划 she mapped out a plan of action in ten minutes Example sentencesExamples The sequences of these three episodes were very interesting because three entirely different strategies were mapped out for each day. He explained: ‘It's not that we've just got the one way of playing, but if we do change we really do know what we're doing because it has been mapped out beforehand.’ If we uncover the road, we will have to map it out and give the details to the county archaeologist. I could map it out more thoroughly, but eh, what do you expect for free? The event was briefed, and every contingency was mapped out. Even if, at the time, I was not exactly the happiest person in the world to see him, the day that he came after me was the day that the rest of my life was mapped out. In my view there is a God out there and our lives are mapped out for us. At a recent California conference, organised by the ATM Forum, strategies were mapped out for the development of standards for delivering streaming media and the like more reliably over existing carrier infrastructures. So they can actually map these things out and get a pretty good sense of exactly what they're going to do on this model before they actually do it in real life. A series of policies will be mapped out soon to develop private medical institutions. Having previously recorded on location, he knew what was required and had mapped things out in detail beforehand. Details for the resolution will be mapped out by high-ranking officials of the two countries, he added. In 2002 when perpetual roadblocks became a thorn in the flesh of Lusaka bus drivers, a strategy was mapped out in Chawama to end the problem. An analysis was made of the moral and psychological state of the servicemen and their family members, the existing social and housing problems were revealed and ways were mapped out of dealing with them. And I realized that, with my lifestyle, where I come from, my culture, in a sense my whole life was mapped out for me,’ she says, struggling to find the words to explain. Then a route was mapped out to take in as many different species and articles of interest as possible. A number of concrete measures were mapped out, he said after a tete-a-tete with the director of the Russian border service. Previously, the dirt and turf courses were mapped out in detail while receiving devices were installed that would track the transmitter. Today, having mapped it out, I'm not following that pattern. I like to know in advance what the day will consist of, so I can map it out in my mind. Synonyms outline, set out, lay out, sketch out, trace out, rough out, block out, delineate, detail, draw up Derivatives mapless adjective And for foreign visitors, who have only had access to the country for the last ten years, it might as well be a mapless frontier. Example sentencesExamples Zanzibar is the island of cloves and ivory and it is where Livingstone and the other Victorian explorers began their treks into the mapless nothing. Having started early so we wouldn't be too late, our mapless path only partly resembled chaos as depicted by a two-year-old left alone for an hour in a large white room with a big black crayon. To me, it says that whether you look at pop as a guided tour or a mapless adventure is not important - what matters are the people you're travelling with. This appears to be the mapless voyage of the Conservative Party, now wondering if they should boldly go to that land into which they said they would never stray - namely Europe and the euro. mappable adjective Work in the Appalachians has demonstrated the degree to which the implicit assumption, that shortening is accomplished by displacement on mappable fault planes, can lead to severe underestimates of the amount of shortening. Example sentencesExamples Elsewhere in southern England, detailed mapping of the Chalk has shown it can be divided into the Grey and White Chalk subgroups, themselves further subdivided into mappable units of formation status. The conservative project, to the degree that it still exists in a meaningful sense, exists in massive tension with neo-liberalism, and much of the contradictions of our world are mappable along this point of fracture. Is it hopelessly romantic to trust that human life, for all its knowable genetic specificities, lies in those larger territories, beyond commerce, for which there are no mappable equivalents? We strongly disagree with the suggestion by James that it is critical for our interpretation that both the top and bottom of the low density, and low velocity, shale interval is seismically mappable. mapper noun Last year farmers blocked access to the vegetation mappers. Example sentencesExamples The geological charts were drawn by British army mappers between 1845 and 1887 and are used predominantly by engineering firms, county councils and other organisations for planning purposes. Object-relational mappers, as such software is often known, bridges the gap between the object-oriented and relational worlds, which treat data in fundamentally different ways. Matthews, a previous Pulitzer nominee for Where The Buffalo Roam, is a meticulous mapper of Manhattan's diverse animal population. Soon, political mappers will know more about you than the Department of Homeland Security. Origin Early 16th century: from medieval Latin mappa mundi, literally 'sheet of the world', from Latin mappa 'sheet, napkin' + mundi 'of the world' (genitive of mundus). Rhymes bap, cap, chap, clap, dap, entrap, enwrap, flap, frap, gap, giftwrap, hap, knap, lap, Lapp, nap, nappe, pap, rap, sap, schappe, scrap, slap, snap, strap, tap, trap, wrap, yap, zap noun.1 phr. phr.v. map¹ nounmapmæp 1A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc. 地图；海图 a street map 街道地图。 figurative expansion of the service sector is reshaping the map of employment 〈喻〉服务业的扩张正在改变就业的结构。 Example sentencesExamples The maps represent arbitrary chunks of city terrain; city transit maps are included separately. But the CIA-produced Moscow Street Guide remained by far the best map of the city. These directives are based on normal real estate valuation principles and are appended with land maps for each urban area. But the M25 was closed for maintenance coming back and I was forced ‘off road’ without a map. You have to identify a street with a name, using a map or a road sign. The Roads Management Service have put on display the revised maps for the road alterations to be carried out at Harbour Road and Manse Road. Zonal maps and land use patterns under the master plan will be displayed. There have been no measures initiated nor a road map charted out, to rectify such fiscal imbalances and to restore balance for long term growth. It might be compared with the modern Arnhem Land maps of the same area that I tried to find later, but which were merely a patchwork of uranium leases. The exhibition features maps and plans of the proposed regeneration schemes as well as explanations of the designs and the work behind the ideas. Well a map will help of course, but not all city maps are up to date and only the best among them provide an index of city streets. He grabbed a map of the City… and began mapping out an area that he was going to cover in tonight's run. A spokesman for the Highways Department arrived with a map with eight road humps marked in for Emily Street and four for Marborough Street. They will come into place when all the conclusive maps of access land have been published and the Secretary of State has authorised their commencement. I found a street map of the whole area, and spent an hour looking at it. City council minutes for 1911 and 1912 make no mention of any gift, and city maps do not show a park in that area of town. In fact, I've been looking at my road map planning my drive up to Sydney, and I realised something. The military planner must have a good local city street map and aerial photos. The discovery of the city wall remains was not a surprise to the City Council as maps had pinpointed Peter Street as a location for the historic ruins. Think of how superior a map showing roads, terrain, rivers, and cities is to one showing just a featureless land mass. Synonyms plan, chart 1.1 A two-dimensional representation of the positions of stars or other astronomical objects. 天体图 Example sentencesExamples The platform was actually some kind of map to the stars above with thousands of tiny specks of light dotting the dark blue steel. If it is visible the site will give you a star map showing where the ISS is, its path over the sky and the exact time when it can be seen. Physicists and astronomers set about trying to identify this imprint in maps of our own galactic neighbourhood. The most significant difference between the two maps was the relative position of RAPD359. The couple use special star maps to help create as authentic a night sky as possible, with everything in its correct place. He touched the planet on the star map, and it listed statistics on the planet itself. At astronomy, the last class, neither Jordan nor David spoke a word that didn't have to do with plotting stars on a map. She reached in and pulled out a solar map, with one star highlighted. The Southern Fish is usually depicted on star maps at the feet of Aquarius, where it swallows up the water poured from his urn. He looked at the star maps to see if there were any habitable planets or moons in the area. It took them less than 30 minutes to locate a star not on their map. A corollary of this is to have star maps and a red light with you, so that you can look up the location of anything you haven't memorized how to find yet. Admiral Leverios was speaking to the assembled group while pointing at something on a star map. 1.2 A diagram or collection of data showing the spatial arrangement or distribution of something over an area. 分布图 an electron density map 电子密度分布图。 Example sentencesExamples The complete diffraction data, once obtained, can be used to construct the electron density map of the unit cell. Together this provides a map of solute distribution in space and time. The blue-colored image above shows some low-resolution electron density maps of the holoenzyme. The DLSM spatial maps of the fluctuation decay rates of the imaged cells confirm this finding. The radiolabelled object is then exposed to a photographic emulsion to obtain a map of radionuclide distribution. In the spatial maps, computed concentrations less than zero were set equal to zero. Synonyms plan, chart 1.3Biology A representation of the sequence of genes on a chromosome or of bases in a DNA or RNA molecule. 〔生〕（基因）图谱 Example sentencesExamples Generation of entire chromosomal maps has been a central problem in genetics right from its early years. An integrated map of all 21 chromosomes based on 436 deletion lines was constructed. Arrows below the gene map indicate primers used in PCR analysis of the P-element insertions. Lines below the chromosomal map indicate the deleted region with the arrow pointing in the direction of the deletion. The od gene on the Z chromosome of the classical map of the silkworm is located on group 3. 1.4Mathematics another term for mapping Example sentencesExamples It is generally regarded as a study of the iteration of maps, of time evolution of differential equations, and of group actions on manifolds. This work gave an algebraic classification of maps from polyhedra to spheres. Two algebraic varieties are said to be equivalent if there is a one-to-one correspondence between them with both the map and its inverse regular. However, Ulam did make a fundamental contribution in proposing the antipodal map theorem. In the quadratic map, very small changes to alpha make enormous changes on how the system behaves. 2dated, informal A person's face. 〈非正式，旧〉脸，面孔 Example sentencesExamples After an initial fit of entitlement, Ralph went and looked at his sister, his face a sorrowful map of genuine concern. He placed a claw against her lips, his face a map of exhaustion, but with a gentle smile. verbmapmæp [with object] 1Represent (an area) on a map; make a map of. 在地图上标示（一块地区）；绘制…的图 inaccessible parts will be mapped from the air 无法进入的地区的地图将采用航拍进行绘制。 Example sentencesExamples The act gives ramblers the right to walk freely across mapped areas of open country, including mountains, moors and registered common land. Although it gets quite frustrating, players will quickly learn that a fair bit of each mapped area is not accessible. Gabbro Rock outcrops were scattered throughout the preserve but were not mapped because of their small area. This system maps an area, showing where objects, that might be mines, are. The maps also show patterns of cancer that might escape notice if larger areas were mapped. Each time WFCAM maps an area of sky, it will generate an image of over 250 million pixels. We mapped the study area using a compass, range finder, and measuring tape; the map was then analyzed in a digitized format. Because of the sprawling size of the area to be mapped, preliminary observation was done by car, and then on foot. Even if the area is mapped as access land, you will not be able to walk within 20m of a dwelling, or in gardens or courtyards within the curtilage of a property, unless a right of way already exists. An understanding of coastal landforms and the processes acting upon them can be used to map areas at risk from cliff failure, beach erosion, and flooding. Now, with the aid of oil industry technology, the area off Utah and Omaha beaches in Normandy will be mapped, revealing exactly where the tanks were buried. We mapped the area and decided that there was a large prospect up from it about 55 kilometres long. In-mine mapping revealed a similar degree of erosion down to the coal in parts of all four mapped areas, which were about 1.6 km apart. He was also to map the area between Pine Creek and the West Australian border. The Chapman Corridor Bushcare Group plans to eventually survey and map the park to provide a picture of the park's flora health. Suppose we map an area and find that it looks like the image at right. If a house was on a noisy street, the realtor would show them one in an area so remote it probably had not yet been mapped. This permitted us to map the local jamming area and determine the boundaries of the jamming range. Has he seen the extent of the flood plain in a one in a 100-year flood in this area, as mapped by the Environment Agency? And yet before the area was properly mapped, mere vigilance was not enough, as the long list of ships wrecked and lives lost proves. Synonyms chart, plot, delineate, draw, depict, portray, survey 1.1 Record in detail the spatial distribution of (something) 绘制…空间分布形态图 the project to map the human genome 人类基因图谱绘制计划。 Example sentencesExamples Such thinking in the scientific community prompted the ambitious plan to map the human genome. Abnormal flow patterns can also be recorded and used, for example, to map jets of blood leaking from damaged valves. Or, mapping the human genome could be judged as the greatest advance in the history of our species since we stood up on two legs. Amazingly, a rough draft of the entire human genome was mapped by the year 2000. He was one of the guys who founded Celera Genomics, the first company to map the human genome. Testing of these models requires that the spatial and temporal distribution of strain and vorticity domains be mapped out across the slab. The researchers are also using the markers as a guide in mapping the sugar beet genome. One of the promises of the human genome project which identified and mapped the genes on our chromosomes was that it could help to target medications better. But who can name the guys who mapped the human genome first, for example? To achieve this goal we map the spatial distribution of volcanic seismic facies units. The entire human genome-every bit of DNA-has been mapped out by the Human Genome Project. Businessweek has an article about the Beijing Genome Institute which mapped the rice genome earlier this year. For my class project I chose to map the foraging patterns of a nesting Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher. Animal models and their corresponding genomes are highly useful for mapping traits that may apply to human diseases. The scientist whose company first mapped the human genome has formed a company to create life. We have mapped the human genome and embarked on identifying and curing heretofore intractable genetic conditions. But mapping the genomes of animals such as pigs, cows, chickens and sheep is turning out to be every bit as significant. Witmer was able to map the likely position of cartilage, blood vessels and other soft tissues that made up the nasal cavities of dinosaurs. As mapping the human genome reveals the actual evolution of the organism, so the history of culture traces an essential source of human personality. Although scientists have now successfully mapped the human genome, the next step is to make sense of it. 1.2 Associate (a group of elements or qualities) with an equivalent group, according to a particular formula or model. 映现 the transformational rules map deep structures into surface structures 转换规则将深层结构映现为表层结构。 Example sentencesExamples We reported on this issue in our first investigative piece, when we found that the behavior maps to a specific position of the view camera. In particular, the k coloring problem can be mapped directly onto a model of a magnetic system in solid-state physics. It would be possible to work through the classification describing how each kind of loop maps into different spatial and temporal orderings. 1.3Mathematics Associate each element of (a set) with an element of another set. 〔数〕映射 Example sentencesExamples These latent variables are essential for linkage mapping and association mapping. 1.4Mathematics no object Be associated or linked to something. 与…有关，与…有联系 it is not obvious that the subprocesses of language will map onto individual brain areas 要说语言的次过程和大脑的各个不同区域相联系，这还不明显。 Example sentencesExamples Cantor showed in 1878 that the unit interval I can be mapped bijectively onto the unit square I 2. Although Riemann had given a proof of the theorem that any simply connected region of the plane can be mapped conformally onto a disc, his proof involved using the Dirichlet problem. For instance, if lattice dimensions are N x, N y, N z and N t and the dimensions of the machine are n x, n y, n z and n t, then the number of lattice points mapped on to a node will be N x/n x * N y/n y * N z/n z * N t/n t. Phrases all over the map informal In a disorganized or confused state. they both have economic policies that are all over the map off the map (of a place) very distant or remote. 偏远的，遥远的 just a hick town, right off the map 不过是个乡村小镇，上不了地图。 Example sentencesExamples Sakhalin is off the map, a fleck on the flank of Asia. The filmmaker sought to examine the mental stress experienced by the population in a place off the map or at the world's end. Synonyms isolated, remote, out of the way, outlying, off the beaten track, in the depths of …, hard to find, lonely, in the back of beyond, in the hinterlands, off the map, in the middle of nowhere, godforsaken, obscure, inaccessible, cut-off, tucked away, unreachable put someone/something on the map Bring someone or something to prominence. 使…出名 the exhibition put Cubism on the map 这次展览使立体派出了名。 Example sentencesExamples He hopes to open a cabaret club in April which, he said, would put Bradford on the map and stop the drift of people to other areas. I want to put this club on the map and, hopefully, turn Molesey into a footballing name. Masi, one of the most famous producers in this region, has put Venetian wines on the map. It will give the club a considerable boost and really put us on the map again after the disappointments of losing Yorkshire county cricket. This exhibit put us on the map in Michigan and Ohio, and brought in major collectors and a visit from the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts. It offers tours of the slightly faded villa buildings with movie trinkets including posters of The Night of the Iguana, the film that put Puerto Vallarta on the map for Americans. I want to put the city back on the map and bring people from other parts of the country and see something different here. Those fine Kerry Scotch Blackface sheep that you came across so regularly today all spring from the improvement brought about by this pioneering association which put the breed on the map. That investment in the film industry will put New Zealand on the map, and, as a country, we are all very proud of it. We're disappointed not to get through but it puts our club on the map again. wipe something off the map Obliterate something totally. 从地图上抹掉，彻底消灭 Example sentencesExamples The war was not yet over; Britain still maintained strong garrisons in New York and Charlestown, but the only effective field army in the colonies had been wiped off the map with a few strokes from Washington and Cornwallis' pen. The US already has enough firepower to wipe a nation off the map and kill millions upon millions of people. As many as 1,000 villages and towns were either damaged or wiped off the map. The newsman talked about how the town of Jonesboro in the northeastern edge of the state had been wiped off the map by an F5 tornado. He exterminates his enemies and wipes whole tribes off the map. Well, in about 30 seconds, pretty much everyone's gonna attack this place, wipe it off the map. Three cities were wiped off the map in a month because of that war. Some of these areas are accessible now only by helicopter because the roads were just completely wiped off the map by the earthquake. More than a few times I shouted angrily and cursed the opposition as they came flying down with superior aerial units to wipe my units off the map near the 30-second mark. Well, in the region where Hurricane Rita came ashore, some small rural towns were nearly wiped off the map. Synonyms get rid of, eliminate, do away with, remove, suppress Phrasal Verbs map something out Plan a route or course of action in detail. 筹划，作详细计划 I mapped out a route over familiar country near home 我费心计划了一条离家很近的路线，沿途是熟悉的乡村。 Example sentencesExamples Previously, the dirt and turf courses were mapped out in detail while receiving devices were installed that would track the transmitter. Even if, at the time, I was not exactly the happiest person in the world to see him, the day that he came after me was the day that the rest of my life was mapped out. A series of policies will be mapped out soon to develop private medical institutions. I like to know in advance what the day will consist of, so I can map it out in my mind. I could map it out more thoroughly, but eh, what do you expect for free? Then a route was mapped out to take in as many different species and articles of interest as possible. In 2002 when perpetual roadblocks became a thorn in the flesh of Lusaka bus drivers, a strategy was mapped out in Chawama to end the problem. The sequences of these three episodes were very interesting because three entirely different strategies were mapped out for each day. At a recent California conference, organised by the ATM Forum, strategies were mapped out for the development of standards for delivering streaming media and the like more reliably over existing carrier infrastructures. And I realized that, with my lifestyle, where I come from, my culture, in a sense my whole life was mapped out for me,’ she says, struggling to find the words to explain. The event was briefed, and every contingency was mapped out. A number of concrete measures were mapped out, he said after a tete-a-tete with the director of the Russian border service. Details for the resolution will be mapped out by high-ranking officials of the two countries, he added. So they can actually map these things out and get a pretty good sense of exactly what they're going to do on this model before they actually do it in real life. If we uncover the road, we will have to map it out and give the details to the county archaeologist. An analysis was made of the moral and psychological state of the servicemen and their family members, the existing social and housing problems were revealed and ways were mapped out of dealing with them. Today, having mapped it out, I'm not following that pattern. Having previously recorded on location, he knew what was required and had mapped things out in detail beforehand. He explained: ‘It's not that we've just got the one way of playing, but if we do change we really do know what we're doing because it has been mapped out beforehand.’ In my view there is a God out there and our lives are mapped out for us. Synonyms outline, set out, lay out, sketch out, trace out, rough out, block out, delineate, detail, draw up Origin Early 16th century: from medieval Latin mappa mundi, literally ‘sheet of the world’, from Latin mappa ‘sheet, napkin’ + mundi ‘of the world’ (genitive of mundus). MAP² abbreviation Modified American plan. See American plan noun.1 phr. phr.v. abbr.1
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