chart

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French charte (“card, map”), from Late Latin charta (“paper, card, map”), Latin charta (“papyrus, writing”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, thin sheet”). See charter, card, carte.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tʃɑːt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
• Homophone: chaat (non-rhotic)

Noun

chart (plural charts)

1. A map.
   1. A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
   2. A navigator's map.
2. A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.
   1. A tabular presentation of data; a table.
   2. A diagram.
      • 2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:

        Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

   3. A graph.
      • 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:

        Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?

   4. A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.

      Hypernym: medical record (formerly synonymous; loosely still so)

      I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.

   5. A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.

      They're at the top of the charts again this week.

3. A written deed; a charter.
4. (differential geometry, topology) Synonym of coordinate chart.

Derived terms

terms derived from chart (noun)

• alignment chart
• ancestral chart
• bar chart
• birth chart
• bottle chart
• Bristol stool chart
• candle chart
• candlestick chart
• chartbook
• chartbuster
• chartbusting
• chart-caller
• chart caller
• chart datum
• charted
• chart house
• charticle
• chartism
• chartist
• chartjunk
• chartless
• chartlike
• chart music
• chart of accounts
• chartometer
• chart plotter
• chartroom
• chart table
• chart-topper
• chart-topping
• chartwise
• chartwork
• chip chart
• control chart
• coxcomb chart
• E chart
• eye chart
• flipchart
• flip chart
• flow chart
• funnel chart
• Gantt chart
• geochart
• H-S chart
• ICE chart
• Kagi chart
• knitting chart
• lap-chart
• lap chart
• Macbeth chart
• Marimekko chart
• Moody chart
• multi-vari chart
• music chart
• natal chart
• nautical chart
• navigational chart
• Nolan chart
• off the chart
• organisational chart
• organisation chart
• organizational chart
• organization chart
• org chart
• PERT chart
• pie chart
• PMI chart
• polar bar chart
• pop chart
• potty chart
• Pournelle chart
• prechart
• psychrometric chart
• radar chart
• record chart
• RICE chart
• ring chart
• sea chart
• seating chart
• Smith chart
• Snellen chart
• somatochart
• spaghetti chart
• spie chart
• star chart
• statechart
• step chart
• subchart
• sunburst chart
• time chart
• top the charts
• tumbling E chart
• Vosem chart
• wall chart
• wallchart
• weather chart

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: チャート (chāto)
• → Korean: 차트 (chateu)
• → Swahili: chati
• → Welsh: siart

Translations

map — see map

navigator's map

• Bulgarian: мо́рска ка́рта f (mórska kárta)
• Esperanto: mapo (eo)
• Finnish: merikortti (fi)
• French: carte (fr) f
• German: Karte (de) f
• Hebrew: מַפָּה יַמִּית f (mapá yamít)
• Hungarian: (tengerészeti) térkép
• Italian: carta (it), carta nautica, carta geografica
• Latin: carta f
• Macedonian: карта f (karta)
• Portuguese: carta náutica f
• Romanian: hartă maritimă f
• Russian: морска́я ка́рта f (morskája kárta)
• Scottish Gaelic: cairt f, cairt-iùil f
• Welsh: siart f

non-narrative presentation of data

• Arabic: مُخَطَّط بَيَانِيّ m (muḵaṭṭaṭ bayāniyy), مُخَطَط m (muḵaṭaṭ)
• Belarusian: гра́фік m (hráfik), дыягра́ма f (dyjahráma)
• Bulgarian: диагра́ма (bg) f (diagráma), гра́фика (bg) f (gráfika)
• Burmese: ကားချပ် (my) (ka:hkyap)
• Catalan: gràfic (ca) m, diagrama (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圖表／图表 (zh) (túbiǎo)

• Czech: graf (cs) m
• Finnish: kaavio (fi), taulukko (fi)
• French: graphe (fr) m, diagnostiques (fr) f pl (colloq)
• German: Diagramm (de) n, Schaubild (de) n
• Hindi: लेखाचित्र m (lekhācitra), चार्ट (cārṭ)
• Hungarian: (figure, illustration) ábra (hu), (diagram) diagram (hu), (graph) grafikon (hu)
• Irish: graf m
• Japanese: チャート (ja) (chāto), 図表 (ja) (ずひょう, zuhyō)
• Khmer: តារាង (km) (taaraang)
• Korean: 차트 (ko) (chateu), 도표(圖表) (dopyo)
• Macedonian: графико́н m (grafikón), дијаграм m (dijagram)
• Maori: mahere, tūtohi
• Portuguese: diagrama (pt) m, gráfico (pt) m
• Russian: гра́фик (ru) m (gráfik), диагра́мма (ru) f (diagrámma), чертёж (ru) m (čertjóž) (drawing), рису́нок (ru) m (risúnok) (drawing), набро́сок (ru) m (nabrósok) (sketch)
• Scottish Gaelic: cairt f
• Swahili: chati (sw)
• Tagalog: taltaguhit
• Thai: ผัง (th) (pǎng), แผนผัง (th) (pɛ̌ɛn-pǎng), ชาร์ต
• Ukrainian: гра́фік m (hráfik), діагра́ма f (diahráma)
• Vietnamese: biểu đồ (vi), đồ biểu (vi)
• Welsh: siart m or f

ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music

• Catalan: llista d'èxits f
• Czech: žebříček m
• Dutch: hitlijst (nl) f
• Esperanto: musikrango
• Galician: lista de éxitos f
• German: Hitliste (de) f, Chart (de) m or n
• Hungarian: slágerlista (hu)
• Indonesian: tangga lagu
• Portuguese: parada musical f (Brazil)
• Spanish: lista de éxitos f

coordinate chart — see coordinate chart

table — see table

diagram — see diagram

graph — see graph

Verb

chart (third-person singular simple present charts, present participle charting, simple past and past participle charted)

2. (transitive) To draw a chart or map of.

   chart the seas

4. (transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan).

   Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.

   We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.

   • 1991 May 4, Michael Bronski, “One Man's 'Poison'”, in Gay Community News, page 11:

     The men in "Homo," (and even perhaps Haynes himself) are not looking for acceptance or validation, but a way to chart their own notions of self-determination in a world that makes little sense and offers even less comfort.

6. (transitive) To record systematically.
   1. To enter (medical information) into a medical record.

      Did you chart the urine output yet?

8. (intransitive, of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.

   The song has charted for 15 weeks!

   The band first charted in 1994.

Derived terms

• chartable
• outchart
• rechart

Translations

draw a chart or map

• Bulgarian: картирам (kartiram)
• Finnish: kartoittaa (fi)
• German: zeichnen (de)
• Irish: graf
• Macedonian: црта (crta), траси́ра (trasíra)
• Portuguese: mapear
• Swedish: kartlägga (sv)

draw or figure out a route or plan

• Finnish: laatia (fi)
• German: zeichnen (de)
• Macedonian: црта (crta), траси́ра (trasíra)

Related terms

• card
• cartography
• cartoon
• cartouche
• charter
• Chartist
• Magna Carta

Anagrams

• ratch, archt., trach, archt

Irish

Verb

chart

1. analytic past indicative of cart

Lower Sorbian

chart

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ, cognate with Polish chart, Czech chrt, Ukrainian хорт (xort), Serbo-Croatian hȑt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xart]

Noun

chart m anim

1. greyhound (lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing)

Declension

Declension of chart

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	chart	charta	charty
Genitive	charta	chartowu	chartow
Dative	chartoju	chartoma	chartam
Accusative	charta	chartowu	charty, chartow
Instrumental	chartom	chartoma	chartami
Locative	charśe	chartoma	chartach

Hypernyms

• pjas m (“dog”)

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “chart”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “chart”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Polish

chart

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xъrtъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxart/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -art
• Syllabification: chart
• Homophone: hart

Noun

chart m animal (female equivalent charcica, diminutive charcik)

1. greyhound; sighthound

Declension

Declension of chart

	singular	plural
nominative	chart	charty
genitive	charta	chartów
dative	chartowi	chartom
accusative	charta	charty
instrumental	chartem	chartami
locative	charcie	chartach
vocative	charcie	charty

Derived terms

adjective

• charci

 

Related terms

nouns

• charciarz
• charciątko
• charciczka
• charcię

 

Further reading

• chart in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• chart in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English chart, from French charte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɾt/ [ˈt͡ʃaɾt̪]
• Rhymes: -aɾt
• Syllabification: chart

Noun

chart m (plural charts)

1. chart