different between chart vs portolan

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /t???t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)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.
   3. A graph.
   4. A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.

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

3. A written deed; a charter.
4. (topology) A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (ch?to)
• ? Korean: ?? (chateu)
• ? Welsh: siart

Translations

Verb

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

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

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

3. (transitive) To record systematically.
4. (intransitive, of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.

Derived terms

• chartable
• rechart

Translations

Related terms

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

Anagrams

• ratch, trach

Irish

Verb

chart

1. analytic past indicative of cart

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *x?rt?, cognate with Polish chart, Czech chrt, Ukrainian ???? (xort), Serbo-Croatian h?t.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xart]

Noun

chart m

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

Declension

Hypernyms

• pjas m (“dog”)

Further reading

• chart in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• chart in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *x?rt?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xart/
• Homophone: hart

Noun

chart m anim (diminutive charcik, feminine charcica)

1. greyhound; sighthound

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) charci

Related terms

• (nouns) charci?, charci?tko, charciczka, charciarz

Further reading

• chart in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• chart in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

chart m (plural charts)

1. chart

English

Etymology

From French portulan, from Italian portolano.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??t?l?n/

Noun

portolan (plural portolans)

1. (historical, nautical) A chart of European navigable waters based on descriptions of coasts. [from 18th c.]
   • 2012, Simon Garfield, On the Map, Profile Books 2012, p. 110:

     Portolans are as old as the European mariner's magnetic compass, and for about two centuries the two depended on each other for the growth and safe passage of Mediterranean trade.

Translations

Alternative forms

• portolano
• portulan

Anagrams

• pronotal