different between map vs outline

English

Etymology

Shortening of Middle English mappemounde, mapemounde (“world map”), from Old French mapamonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mund?, compound of Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”) and mundus (“world”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American): enPR: m?p, IPA^(key): /mæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Noun

map (plural maps)

1. A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.

   a map of Australia, a map of Lilliput

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Anna, it is a map.

2. A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.

   a map of the human genome, a map of the Earth's magnetic field
3. (mathematics) A function.

   Let ${\displaystyle f}$ be a map from ${\displaystyle \mathbb {R} }$ to ${\displaystyle \mathbb {R} }$

4. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
5. (Britain, old-fashioned) The face.
6. (board games, video games) An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.

Usage notes

For the most part, map and function are synonyms in mathematics, and are frequently used interchangeably; however, certain branches of mathematics sometimes use map in a specialised sense to mean a function that preserves some important property in that branch of mathematics, i.e. a morphism. For instance, in topology, map may specifically mean a continuous function, and in linear algebra it may specifically mean a linear transformation.

Synonyms

• plan
• chart
• (mathematics): mapping, function.
• (video games): level, stage.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

map (third-person singular simple present maps, present participle mapping, simple past and past participle mapped)

1. (transitive) To represent by means of a map.

2. (transitive) To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.

3. (intransitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond.

   This doesn't map to my understanding of how things should work.
4. (transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.

5. (mathematics, transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.

   ${\displaystyle f}$ maps ${\displaystyle A}$ to ${\displaystyle B}$, mapping every ${\displaystyle a\in A}$ to ${\displaystyle f(a)\in B}$.

Derived terms

• map out

Translations

References

• map at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• AMP, APM, MPA, PAM, Pam, amp, p.m.a., pam, pma

Cornish

Etymology

Cognate with Breton mab, Old Irish macc.

Noun

map m (plural mebyow)

1. son
2. boy

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mappe, from Latin mappa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?p/
• Hyphenation: map
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

map f (plural mappen, diminutive mapje n)

1. folder
2. (computing) directory, folder

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: map

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch map (“folder”), from German Mappe, from Latin mappa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?map?/
• Hyphenation: map

Noun

map (first-person possessive mapku, second-person possessive mapmu, third-person possessive mapnya)

1. folder.

   Synonym: folder

Further reading

• “map” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /map/

Noun

map f

1. genitive plural of mapa

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

map m (genitive singular map, plural mapaichean)

1. Alternative form of mapa

Mutation

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English map.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /map/

Noun

map m (plural mapiau)

1. map

Derived terms

• mapio (“to map”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “map”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

out +? line

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?tla?n/

Noun

outline (plural outlines)

1. A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
2. The outer shape of an object or figure.
3. A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Painters, by their outlines, colours, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures.

4. A general description of some subject.
5. A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
6. A preliminary plan for a project.

7. (film industry) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
8. (fishing) A setline or trotline.

Translations

See also

• silhouette

Verb

outline (third-person singular simple present outlines, present participle outlining, simple past and past participle outlined)

1. (transitive) To draw an outline of.
2. (transitive) To summarize.

   • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

Translations

Anagrams

• elution, line out, line-out, lineout