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Charted Chart Progress Exhibition History Verb Bre Tʃɑːt

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WordType (verb)
Phonetic BrE / tʃɑːt / NAmE / tʃɑːrt /
Example
  • the exhibition charts the history of the palace.
  • his job was to chart the progress of the spacecraft.
  • she had carefully charted her route to the top of her profession.
  • cook charted the coast of new zealand in 1768.
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chart

(verb)BrE / tʃɑːt / NAmE / tʃɑːrt /
  1. to record or follow the progress or development of somebody/something
    • The exhibition charts the history of the palace.
    • His job was to chart the progress of the spacecraft.
  2. to plan a course of action
    • She had carefully charted her route to the top of her profession.
  3. to make a map of an area
    • synonym map
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/map_2
    • Cook charted the coast of New Zealand in 1768.

    Extra Examples

    • She received letters charting the progress of the child.
    • The book charts the history of the airport.
    • The exhibition charts the development of modern Irish painting.

    Verb Forms

    • present simple I / you / we / they chart
    • he / she / it charts
    • past simple charted
    • past participle charted
    • -ing form charting

    Word Origin

    • late 16th cent.: from French charte, from Latin charta ‘paper, papyrus leaf’ from Greek khartēs.
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