Fig vs Chart - What's the difference?
fig | chart |
A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
A small piece of tobacco.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
A map.
# A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
# A navigator's map.
A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.
# A tabular presentation of data; a table.
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, title= # A diagram.
# A graph.
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, title= # A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
# A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
A written deed; a charter.
(topology) A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas
To draw a chart or map of.
To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
To record systematically.
(of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
As nouns the difference between fig and chart
is that fig is fig while chart is a map.As a verb chart is
to draw a chart or map of.fig
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fige, fygge (also fyke, from (etyl) )Andreas Franz and Wilhelm Schimper, Plant Geography Upon a Physiological Basis , volume 2 (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1902), page 100. Another (etyl) root (compare (etyl) ; whence (etyl) sycophant.Noun
(en noun)- I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
Derived terms
* caprifig * fig leaf * figgy * figtree * not give a figVerb
(figg)- When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.
External links
* ("fig" on Wikipedia) * (pedia) * (Ficus)Etymology 2
Variation of fike.Verb
(figg)Etymology 3
Alternative forms
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English
Noun
(en noun)Pixels or Perish, passage=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.}}
Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=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?}}
Derived terms
* ancestral chart * bar chart * chart house * chartbook * charted * charticle * chartjunk * chartless * chartometer * chartroom * control chart * eye chart * flipchart * flow chart * music chart * org chart * organization chart * PERT chart * pie chart * psychrometric chart * record chart * spaghetti chart * star chart * step chart * wallchart * weather chartVerb
(en verb)- Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.
- We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.
- The song has charted for 15 weeks!
- The band first charted in 1994.
