chart

Universal Words noun, verb noun 1 [C] a page or sheet of information in the form of diagrams, lists of figures, etc: a weather chart * a sales chart (= showing the level of a company's sales) seealsoBARCHART, FLOWCHART, PIECHART 2 [C] a detailed map of the sea: a naval chart 3 (the charts) [pl.] (especially BrE) a list, produced each week, of the pop music records that have sold the most copies: 'Two Tribes' went straight into the charts at number 1. * to top the charts (= to be the record that has sold more copies than all the others) * a chart hit verb [VN] 1 to record or follow the progress or development of sb/sth: 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 SYNMAP: Cook charted the coast of New Zealand in 1768.