compass
IPA: kˈʌmpʌs
noun
- A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
- A pair of compasses (a device used to draw circular arcs and transfer length measurements).
- (music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
- (obsolete) A space within limits; an area.
- (obsolete) An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference.
- Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.
- (formal) Synonym of scope.
- (obsolete) Range, reach.
- (obsolete) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
- (carpentry, architecture, shipbuilding) A curved circular form.
verb
- To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
- To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
- (dated) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
- (dated) To plot; to scheme (against someone).
adverb
- (obsolete) In a circuit; round about.
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Examples of "compass" in Sentences
- Somehow I think your inner compass is guiding you just fine.
- So what happens if that compass is off-course with my readers?
- And this compass is the best I can make – though my next will be. better!
- "The book, though small in compass, is evidently the work of great research and reflection, and is a valuable acquisition to historical literature."
- One of the most serious examples where a recalibration of the moral compass is urgently needed concerns the 3,400 Iranian dissidents residing in Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad.
- The possession of a compass is an indication that the subject of "escaping" has been thought of, and the question, "Have you a compass?" is the prison-camp way of saying, "What do you think of making a try?"
- Agreed with hengst, just another thing to add on, if his compass is the type (as most are) with a rotating housing, he cant use the marking within the housing to keep on his original bearing, otherwise mistakes in shooting short bearings could result in compounding misdirection.
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