chart

noun

• a sheet of information in the form of a table, graph, or diagram:a chart showing how much do-it-yourself costs compared with retail
• (usually the charts) a weekly listing of the current best-selling pop records:she topped the charts for eight weeks
• a geographical map or plan, especially one used for navigation by sea or air.
• Medicine a written record of information about a patient:scribbled on a patient’s chart
• (also birth chart or natal chart) Astrology a map showing the positions of the planets at the time of someone’s birth, from which astrologers are said to be able to deduce character or potential.

verb

• 1 [with object] make a map of (an area).
• plot (a course) on a chart:the pilot found his craft taking a route he had not charted
• record the progress or development of:the poems chart his descent into madness a major series charting the history of country music

• 2 [no object] (of a record) enter the weekly music charts at a particular position:the record will probably chart at about No. 74