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map reading

nounB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

Map reading is the skill of finding your way from a printed map. Teach map reading.

The hard part is matching what is on the paper to what is in front of you. Map reading fails most often because people are sure where they are and are not.

Gerard van Schagen · Public domain

Definitions of map reading

  1. 1nounmap readingThe skill of finding your way from a printed map.B1

    “Map reading got them off the hill when the phone died.”

map reading is a skill.

Where it comes from

mapreading comes from map + reading.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Camping & Outdoors

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