Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.
A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
(transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.
We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.
1991 May 4, Michael Bronski, “One Man's 'Poison'”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
The men in "Homo," (and even perhaps Haynes himself) are not looking for acceptance or validation, but a way to chart their own notions of self-determination in a world that makes little sense and offers even less comfort.