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📊 A process diagram 📊 To make a diagram
to flowchart

to flowchart

4.0
To draw a diagram that shows the steps and decisions in a process
  • verb
  • /ˈfloʊˌtʃɑrt/
translation icon : diagramar
  • Before starting the task, it helps to flowchart the key decisions and their outcomes.

Examples

  • The manager suggested that we flowchart the process to identify any bottlenecks.

  • For example, whether you learn to "think and reason" by studying Aristotelian logic, or by "flowcharting" an accounting process, or "writing a computer program" is unimportant.

    Academic text (1996)

  • If a guy unbidden offers to walk me back to my room or to an event, I will immediately flowchart that inside—something I’m culturally conditioned to do as a woman.

    Blog text (16)

  • To understand the new procedure better, we will flowchart the steps involved in the project.

Antonyms

to confuse
266 1.9

Make someone unable to think clearly or make something hard to understand

to disorganize
  • US
4 4.5

To make something lose its order or structure

How Detailed

to map
36 3.7
to flowchart
4.0

Surface Forms

flowchart infinitive
flowcharted past
flowcharted past participle
flowcharting present participle
flowcharts third person singular

Morphology

flowchart = flowchart (transparent) = flow + chart

This is a regular conversion from the noun 'flowchart' to a verb meaning 'to make or use a flowchart'.

Etymology

Flowchart as a verb comes from the noun idea: to flowchart is to draw a flow 'map' on a chart, showing each step and decision in a process.