COMPASS
\kˈʌmpəs], \kˈʌmpəs], \k_ˈʌ_m_p_ə_s]\
Definitions of COMPASS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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travel around, either by plane or ship; "We compassed the earth"
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navigational instrument for finding directions
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drafting instrument used for drawing circles
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the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"
By Princeton University
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travel around, either by plane or ship; "We compassed the earth"
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navigational instrument for finding directions
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drafting instrument used for drawing circles
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the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
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An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.
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An inclosed space; an area; extent.
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Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within.
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The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.
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An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.
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A pair of compasses.
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A circle; a continent.
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To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.
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To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about.
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To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.
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To curve; to bend into a circular form.
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To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.
By Oddity Software
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To encircle; walk around; to accomplish; attain; besiege.
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A circle; a circumference; extent; moderate bounds; an instrument used on ships for finding the directions, north, south, east, and west.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To pass or go round: to surround or inclose: to besiege: to bring about or obtain: to contrive or plot.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The range of a voice or instrument.
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An instrument for determining directions by the pointing of a magnetic needle northward, as in the mariners compass.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Circuit; space; limit; reach; range; moderate bounds or due limits; an instrument contrived to indicate the magnetic meridian and so ascertain direction, especially in determining and guiding the course of a ship at sea.
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To stretch round; to encircle; to surround; to invest; to go or walk round; to obtain; to accomplish; to contrive or plot. To fetch a compass, to make a circuit.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Grasp; reach; space; extent; the limit or boundary of anything-applied to anything that can be measured or limited; a circuit; a circumference; the magnetic needle or mariner's compass; a guide; a direction.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Circle; round a circuit; circumference; —an inclosing limit; boundary; —an inclosed space; area; extent; range; —the whole extent of a voice or instrument in the musical scale; —an instrument serving to indicate the position or bearing of any body towards the horizon. It consists of a magnetic needle, which, corrected for variation, points due north, a sight line pointing to the horizon, and a circular card divided into thirty-two equal parts. The deflection or difference between the sight point and the north point of the needle, gives the position or bearing.
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Circle, round; space, room, limits; enclosure, circumference; a departure from the right line, an indirect advance; moderate space, moderation, due limits; the power of the voice to express the notes of musick; the instrument with which circles are drawn; the instrument composed of a needle and card, whereby mariners steer.
By Thomas Sheridan
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.