different between way vs map

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: w?, IPA^(key): /we?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophones: weigh, wey, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English way, wey, from Old English we? (“way; path”), from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *we??-. Doublet of voe.

Alternative forms

• waye, waie (both obsolete)

Noun

way (plural ways)

1. (heading) To do with a place or places.
   1. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
      • the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance

      • "It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]
      • "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [song title and lyrics, Bacharach and David]
   2. A means to enter or leave a place.
   3. A roughly-defined geographical area.

2. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
3. A state or condition

   When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.

4. (heading) Personal interaction.
   1. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').

   2. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.

5. (Germanic paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
   • To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
6. (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum.
   • 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:

     Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.

7. A degree, an amount, a sense.
8. (US, As the head of an interjectory clause, followed by an infinitive starting with “to”) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
9. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
10. (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.

Hyponyms

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:way

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

way

1. (only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible

   Synonym: yes way

Verb

way (third-person singular simple present ways, present participle waying, simple past and past participle wayed)

1. (obsolete) To travel.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:

     on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge […] .

Etymology 2

Apheresis of away.

Alternative forms

• 'way, ’way (dated)

Adverb

way (not comparable)

1. (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.

   I'm way too tired to do that.

   I'm a way better singer than Emma.

   • 2006, Keyboard, Volume 32, Issues 1-6, page 132,

     It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.

2. (slang, with positive adjective) Very.

   I'm way tired.

   String theory is way cool, except for the math.

   • 2005, Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts, page 16,

     With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?

3. (informal) Far.

Synonyms

• (much): far, much, loads
• (very): so, very, so much

Derived terms

• way too
• way too many
• way too much

Translations

Etymology 3

From the sound it represents, by analogy with other (velar) letters such as kay and gay.

Noun

way (plural ways)

1. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

Related terms

• double-u

Anagrams

• Yaw, wya, yaw

Bobot

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

way

1. water

References

• "Bobot" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Highland Popoluca

Noun

way

1. hair

References

• Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)?^[4] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN, page 115

Lampung Api

Etymology

From Proto-Lampungic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

way

1. water (clear liquid H?O)

Ojibwe

Particle

way

1. exclamation

References

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/way-pc-disc

Tz'utujil

Noun

way

1. tortilla

Synonyms

• away

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