chart Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a visual display of information
  2. noun a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea
  3. verb make a chart of
    • chart the territory
  4. verb plan in detail
    • Bush is charting a course to destroy Saddam Hussein
  5. verb represent by means of a graph
    graph.
    • chart the data

WordNet

Chart noun
Etymology
A doublet of card: cf. F. charte charter, carte card. See Card, and cf. Charter.
Definitions
  1. A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
  2. A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
  3. A written deed; a charter.
Chart transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Charted
Definitions
  1. To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.

Webster 1913