1. diagram - Noun
2. diagram - Verb
A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.
Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one.
To put into the form of a diagram.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. Doris Lessing
The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area. Wassily Kandinsky
The Venn Diagram of guys who don't like smart girls and guys you don't want to date is a circle. John Green (author)
Conversation once colored by esteem Became dialogue as a diagram of a play for blood. Took a vacation, my palate got clean. Now I could taste your agenda While you're spitting your cud. Fiona Apple
To show this diagram properly, I would really need a four dimensional screen. However, because of government cuts, we could manage to provide only a two dimensional screen. Stephen Hawking
This is why we call people exes, I guess -- because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. It's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. It's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. The X is a diagram of two paths. John Green (author)