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DIAGRAM

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Irregular inflected forms: diagrammed    , diagramming   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("diagram" is a kind of...):

drawing (a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diagram"):

block diagram (a diagram showing the interconnections between the components of system (especially an electronic system))

horoscope (a diagram of the positions of the planets and signs of the zodiac at a particular time and place)

schematic; schematic drawing (diagram of an electrical or mechanical system)

Venn's diagram; Venn diagram (a diagram that uses circles to represent mathematical or logical sets pictorially inside a rectangle (the universal set); elements that are common to more than one set are represented by intersections of the circles)

zodiac ((astrology) a circular diagram representing the 12 zodiacal constellations and showing their signs)

Derivation:

diagram (make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed)

diagrammatic; diagrammatical (shown or represented by diagrams)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed

Synonyms:

diagram; plot

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "diagram" is one way to...):

draw (represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diagram"):

graph (plot upon a graph)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

diagram (a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts)

diagramming (providing a chart or outline of a system)

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 Context examples: 

Brief Pain Inventory Short Form (BPI Short Form) On the diagram, put an X on the area that hurts the most.

(BPI Short Form - Area that Hurts Most, NCI Thesaurus)

The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack—even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco—all met my eyes as I glanced round me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was scrawled over with geometrical diagrams and calculations of some sort.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) On the diagram, put an X on the area that hurts the most.

(BPI - Area Hurts Most, NCI Thesaurus)

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) On the diagram, shade in the areas where you feel pain.

(BPI - Areas of Pain, NCI Thesaurus)

A graphical calculating device or a two-dimensional diagram designed to allow the approximate graphical computation of a function.

(Nomogram Chart, NCI Thesaurus)

Computer methods for creating images, diagrams or animations.

(Graphics Visualization, NCI Thesaurus)

You will please deposit the boxes, fifty in number, which form the consignment, in the partially ruined building forming part of the house and marked 'A' on rough diagram enclosed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On the next page is a diagram of the mechanism of its wing.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is for this reason that I am compelled to be vague in my narrative, and I would warn my readers that in any map or diagram which I may give the relation of places to each other may be correct, but the points of the compass are carefully confused, so that in no way can it be taken as an actual guide to the country.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)