"mapful" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: mapfuls [plural]
Etymology: map + -ful Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|map|ful|pos=noun}} map + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun}} mapful (plural mapfuls)
  1. A quantity (of something) described by a map.
    Sense id: en-mapful-en-noun-y2o1PjMr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 14 Disambiguation of English nouns suffixed with -ful: 68 32
  2. A quantity (of something) that forms a map or a map-like image.
    Sense id: en-mapful-en-noun-~aabNkWy

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1957, Ethyl News, page c",
          "text": "Discover the mapful of fun that's around you anywhere you live (and drive).",
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        {
          "ref": "1961, Briton Hadden, Time - Volume 78, Part 2, page 9",
          "text": "And a tankful lasts a mapful of miles.",
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          "ref": "1979, C. Desmond Greaves, Sean O'Casey, politics and art, page 19",
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          "ref": "2010, Alan Tennant, On The Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with a Peregrine Falcon",
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          "ref": "2016, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City",
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          "ref": "1965, Ann Borowik, Lions Three: Christians Nothing, page 65",
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          "ref": "2013, Indu Sundaresan, The Mountain of Light: A Novel",
          "text": "And the woman highest in rank usually has quite a few years tucked under her belt, and a mapful of wrinkles on her face.",
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          "ref": "2017, Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel, page 26",
          "text": "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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