Definitions
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- noun The skill of reading a
map .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lets just say my sense of direction and mapreading didn't serve me well enough, but a cab fixed the problem an hour after it occured.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2008
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On a walking. tour when the last light of a wet evening had just revealed some ghastly error in mapreading (probably his own) and the best hope was "Five miles to Mudham (if we could find it) and we might get beds there," he still wore that expression.
Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955
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And of course, lots of classroom work, like learning the C DRILS, mapreading etc etc .... and they don't run every day, and there's swimming thrown in a few times in the first half.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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A few hours and 36 grid references later, I was done and very thankful for a youth well spent in the Army Cadets - not only for the mapreading skills but also because that's where I'd nicked my compass from.
Singletrack World 2010
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Oddly enough, the study didn’t actually try to find out how well the subjects could do in mapreading or parallel parking.
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Oddly enough, the study didn’t actually try to find out how well the subjects could do in mapreading or parallel parking.
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