What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Map vs Painting - What's the difference?

map | painting |

As an initialism map

is (travel) modified american plan, a hotel rate that included accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but not lunch.

As a verb painting is

.

As a noun painting is

(lb) an illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s).

map

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March–April
  • , author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= citation , 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.}}
  • (mathematics)   A function.
  • The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always maps.
  • (topology)   A continuous function.
  • A diagram of components of an item.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
  • The butterfly .
  • (UK, old-fashioned)   Someone's face.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter X , passage=And as the eye rested on him, he too filled me with pity and terror, for his map was flushed and his manner distraught. He looked like Jack Dempsey at the conclusion of his first conference with Gene Tunney, the occasion, if you remember, when he forgot to duck.}}
  • (board games, computer games)   A predefined and confined imaginary area where a game session takes place.
  • "I don't want to play this map again!"

    Synonyms

    * plan * chart * (mathematics) mapping, function.

    Derived terms

    * argument map * concept map * * mapmaker * mapmaking * mind map * overworld map * texture map * thematic map * topic map

    Verb

    (mapp)
  • To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography.
  • To inform someone of a particular idea.
  • (mathematics) To act as a function on.
  • f'' maps''' ''A'' to ''B'', ' mapping a\in A to b\in B.
  • (topology) To act as a continuous function on.
  • The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always mappings.

    Derived terms

    * map out

    painting

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s).
  • :
  • *
  • *:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
  • (lb) The action of applying paint to a surface.
  • :
  • (lb) The same activity as an art form.
  • :
  • Synonyms

    The same activity as an art form * third art

    Derived terms

    * oil painting

    Anagrams

    *