See all over the map on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for all over the map meaning in All languages combined (2.6kB)
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prepositional phrase",
"head": "all over the map"
},
"expansion": "all over the map",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "prep_phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "88 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1985 October 28, Jon Pareles, “Music: Ruben Blades's Salsa”, in New York Times",
"text": "The Kip Hanrahan Band, which opened the concert, is after its own ambitious American-Latin fusion, with internationalist rhythms, introspective lyrics and musicians from all over the map.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008 August 9, “A Financial Earthquake”, in Newsweek",
"text": "The reactions were swift, impassioned and all over the map.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Pauline Frommer, Pauline Frommer's Las Vegas, page 58",
"text": "Prices are even more all over the map than usual here; I've seen them range from just $36 all the way up to $160...",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Widely scattered or distributed; numerous and differing greatly."
],
"id": "en-all_over_the_map-en-prep_phrase-4nzrvyhH",
"links": [
[
"scattered",
"scattered"
],
[
"distributed",
"distributed"
],
[
"numerous",
"numerous"
],
[
"differ",
"differ"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) Widely scattered or distributed; numerous and differing greatly."
],
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "62 38",
"word": "all over"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 38",
"word": "all over the board"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 38",
"word": "all over the place"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 38",
"word": "all over the shop"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008 August 13, Scott Petrak, “Browns notes: PGA contender”, in The Chronicle, Ohio: Telegram, retrieved 2008-08-13",
"text": "“I hit it all over the map,” Anderson joked.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In widely scattered directions; in a widely varying manner."
],
"id": "en-all_over_the_map-en-prep_phrase-KObZ5Cjp",
"links": [
[
"widely",
"widely"
],
[
"scattered",
"scattered"
],
[
"direction",
"direction"
],
[
"vary",
"vary"
],
[
"manner",
"manner"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) In widely scattered directions; in a widely varying manner."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-all over the map.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/En-au-all_over_the_map.ogg/En-au-all_over_the_map.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/En-au-all_over_the_map.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "all over the map"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English prepositional phrases",
"English terms with audio links"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prepositional phrase",
"head": "all over the map"
},
"expansion": "all over the map",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "prep_phrase",
"related": [
{
"word": "all over"
},
{
"word": "all over the board"
},
{
"word": "all over the place"
},
{
"word": "all over the shop"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1985 October 28, Jon Pareles, “Music: Ruben Blades's Salsa”, in New York Times",
"text": "The Kip Hanrahan Band, which opened the concert, is after its own ambitious American-Latin fusion, with internationalist rhythms, introspective lyrics and musicians from all over the map.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008 August 9, “A Financial Earthquake”, in Newsweek",
"text": "The reactions were swift, impassioned and all over the map.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Pauline Frommer, Pauline Frommer's Las Vegas, page 58",
"text": "Prices are even more all over the map than usual here; I've seen them range from just $36 all the way up to $160...",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Widely scattered or distributed; numerous and differing greatly."
],
"links": [
[
"scattered",
"scattered"
],
[
"distributed",
"distributed"
],
[
"numerous",
"numerous"
],
[
"differ",
"differ"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) Widely scattered or distributed; numerous and differing greatly."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008 August 13, Scott Petrak, “Browns notes: PGA contender”, in The Chronicle, Ohio: Telegram, retrieved 2008-08-13",
"text": "“I hit it all over the map,” Anderson joked.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In widely scattered directions; in a widely varying manner."
],
"links": [
[
"widely",
"widely"
],
[
"scattered",
"scattered"
],
[
"direction",
"direction"
],
[
"vary",
"vary"
],
[
"manner",
"manner"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) In widely scattered directions; in a widely varying manner."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-all over the map.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/En-au-all_over_the_map.ogg/En-au-all_over_the_map.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/En-au-all_over_the_map.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "all over the map"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.