单词 | unmapped |
释义 | unmappedadj. 1. Not (yet) mapped; uncharted; unexplored. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [adjective] > of places, paths: unexplored uncouthc960 uncoutha1000 unknowna1393 undiscovered1555 unbeaten1617 tractless1628 unbeat1635 untravelled1646 trackless1656 unexplored1697 unmapped1805 uncharted1895 unlocated1902 1805 Ann. Rev. 3 13 Both travellers have..rivers unmapped to navigate. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxiv. 137 There is a great deal of unmapped country within us. 1923 Outing Apr. 3/1 The Olympic peninsula..contains vast, unmapped forests..teeming with the lordly Roosevelt elk. 1935 E. Bowen House in Paris ii. vii. 161 Her thoughts had bent strongly to whatever in marriage stays unmapped and dark. 2006 Total Film Feb. 36/1 Movie producer Carl Lenham..pitches an adventure flick based on a voyage to an unmapped Sumatran island. 2. Genetics. Of a gene, chromosome, mutation, etc.: not yet mapped (cf. map v. 2b). ΚΠ 1931 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 17 695 The break took place..in what is at present an unmapped portion of the chromosome. 1990 Sci. News 4 Aug. 79/1 The Marafan's gene today remains unmapped. 2008 J. R. Girton & K. M. Johansen in V. van Heyningen & R. E. Hill Long-range Control of Gene Expression i. 13 These ‘genetic background effects’ were believed to be due to unmapped dominant, single gene suppressor or enhancer mutations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1805 |
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