map

carte, plan

Dessin indiquant où se trouvent les lieux, routes et autres éléments d’une zone.

En anglais simple : A picture showing where places, roads, or other features are in an area.

• I need a map of the town.
• She found the village on her map.
• These maps show all the walking routes.

Comment l'utiliser : map of somewhere (We bought a map of the city.)

Synonymes : chart

Expressions courantes : read a map, road map, map of somewhere, world map

carte géographique

Papillon dont les ailes portent des motifs ressemblant aux lignes d’une carte géographique.

En anglais simple : A butterfly whose wings have patterns that look like lines on a picture of an area.

• A map butterfly landed on a leaf.
• The European map has different wing colours in spring and summer.
• We photographed a map with its wings open.

Expressions courantes : map butterfly, European map

cartographier

Explorer ou mesurer une zone pour dresser une carte de ses lieux et particularités.

En anglais simple : To explore or measure an area and make a picture showing its places and features.

• They mapped the island.
• Satellites help us map the ocean floor.
• The team is mapping a route through the mountains.

Synonymes : chart, survey

Expressions courantes : map an area, map the coast, map a route

schématiser, représenter

Dessiner une image ou un schéma pour montrer comment quelque chose est organisé.

En anglais simple : If you do this, you draw a picture or diagram to show how something is arranged.

• Let us map the main ideas.
• She mapped out the links between the characters.
• The diagram maps the structure of the organisation.

Comment l'utiliser : map something out (We mapped the process out on a large sheet of paper.)

Synonymes : diagram, chart

Expressions courantes : map something out, map the connections

envoyer, associer

Associer chaque valeur d’un ensemble à une valeur d’un autre ensemble selon une règle.

En anglais simple : To connect each value in one set to a value in another set through a rule.

• The rule maps two to four.
• This function maps every input to a single output.
• Each element is mapped to a point on the curve.

Comment l'utiliser : map A to B (The function maps each number to its square.); map onto something (This function maps the interval onto the whole line.)

Expressions courantes : map to something, map onto something