mapful

Definitions

1. A quantity (of something) described by a map.
2. A quantity (of something) that forms a map or a map-like image.

Examples

“Discover⟳ the mapful of fun that's around you anywhere you live⟳ (and drive⟳).”

“And a tankful lasts a mapful of miles.”

“He was confronted with a mapful of Irish place⟳ names and a population the majority of which could speak⟳ nothing else.”

“And through those vastly sophisticated lenses I imagined Niña Gorda absorbing all the intricate topography of this new land⟳: devouring, with every wing stroke, mapfuls of precisely delineated terrain.”

“A mapful of nautical adventures awaited him, so he bought himself a yacht and sailed the oceans on a couple of four-year expeditions.”

“When he smiled, which he was doing as he came around the corner into the living room, you could see⟳ a mapful of lines and creases and a good set⟳ of teeth with one gold one on the left.”

“And the woman highest in rank usually has quite a few years tucked under her belt, and a mapful of wrinkles on her face⟳.”

“Once in a while Werner tows Jutta as far as the entrance to Pit Nine, the largest of the mines, wrapped in noise, lit like⟳ a pilot at the center of a gas furnace, a five-story coal elevator crouched over it, cables swinging, hammers banging, men shouting, an entire mapful of pleated and corrugated industry stretching into the distance on all sides, and they watch⟳ the coal cars trundling up from the earth and the miners spilling out of warehouses with their lunch pails toward the mouth of the elevator like⟳ insects toward a lighted trap⟳.”

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