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** English
[wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [kŭmʹpəs] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en] + [la]; see pass, pace.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north ).
2. * [part=1]
3. * 1689/1690 , [John Locke] , _On improvement of understanding_
4. *: He that [...] first discovered the use of the COMPASS [...] did more for the propagation of knowledge [...] than those who built workhouses.
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1890 | author=Wilhelm Westhofen | title=The Forth Bridge
|passage=a glance at his COMPASS would have shown him that a northerly course
instead of an easterly could not be right}}
1. A pair of compasses (a device used to draw circular arcs and transfer length measurements).
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1701 | author=w:Jonathan Swift | title=A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome | chapter=5
|passage=to fix one foot of their COMPASS wherever they please}}
1. [en] The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
2. * [act=III]
3. [en] A space within limits ; an area .
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1763 | author=M. Le Page Du Pratz | title=History of Louisiana | publisher=PG | page=47
|passage=In going up the Missisippi [sic], we meet with nothing remarkable
before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the
river takes a large COMPASS.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1711 | author=w:Joseph Addison | title=The Spectator
|passage=Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but
their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow
COMPASS.}}
1. * [Basa Sunda: Sons and Lovers/Chapter 14]
2. * [en]
3. [en] An enclosing limit; a boundary , a circumference .
4. Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with _within_ .
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=c. 1610 | author=w:John Davies | title=Historical Tracts
|passage=In two hundred years before (I speak within COMPASS), no such
commission had been executed.}}
1. [en] [en] [en] .
2. * [passage=the COMPASS of his argument]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1748 | author=David Hume | title=Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral | publisher=Oxford University Press | year_published=1973 | section=8
|passage=There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject,
and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the COMPASS of human
understanding.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1844 | author=w:Edgar Allan Poe | title=s:Marginalia
|passage=How very commonly we hear it remarked that such and such thoughts are
beyond the COMPASS of words! I do not believe that any thought, properly so
called, is out of the reach of language.}}
1. * [en ]
2. [en] Range , reach .
3. * [116]
4. * [part=1]
5. [en] A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
6. * [Kings]
7. * [act=V]
8. [en] A curved circular form.
***** Synonyms
- [magnetic direction finder] [en]
- [device used to draw circular curves] [en]
***** Hyponyms
- [pair of compasses] [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en|color compass|gyroscope compass|gyroscopic compass|qibla compass
|astrocompass|beam compass|bow compass|box the compass|cabin compass|compass
card|compass error|compass needle|compass plant |compass point|compass
rose|compass swing|gyrocompass|magnetic compass|mariner's compass |moral
compass|pair of compasses|radio compass|Square and Compass|telltale
compass|Brunton compass|compass deflection|compass dial|compass
jellyfish|compass out|compass plane|compass saw|compass termite|compass
timber|compass wallah|compass window|fetch a compass|gyro compass|gyromagnetic
compass|hanging compass|prismatic compass|scribing compass|tell-tale
compass|variation compass|all points of the compass|every point of the
compass|Chinese compass|biocompass|compassless }}
***** Translations
[instrument to determine cardinal directions]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Assamese: [as]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: [crh] , [crh]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dhivehi: [dv]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [nautical] [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hawaiian: [haw] , [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Igbo: [ig]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Karachay-Balkar: [krc]
- Karakalpak: [kaa]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] [North Korea]
- Kumyk: [kum]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [Medieval] [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mirandese: [mwl]
- Mongolian:
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Ojibwe: [oj]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [in geodesy, artillery] , [ru] [sailor pronunciation]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tatar: [tt] , [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] )
- Volapük: [vo] , [nautical] [vo] , [obsolete] [vo]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy] , [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[pair of compasses]
[range of notes of a musical instrument or voice]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[area]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
[scope]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Thai: [th]
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[checktrans-top]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
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*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en]; from the noun; see compass as a noun.
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To surround ; to encircle ; to environ ; to stretch round.
2. * [5]
3. * [Genesis]
4. * [en]
5. To go about or round entirely; to traverse .
6. [en] To accomplish ; to reach ; to achieve ; to obtain .
7. * [en]
8. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1763 | translator=M. Nugent | author=Jean-Jacques Rousseau | title=Emilius; or, an essay on education | page=117
|passage=[...] they never find ways sufficient to COMPASS that end.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1816 | title=Catholicon: or, the Christian Philosopher | volume=3 | section=July to December 1816, page 56
|passage=[...] to settle the end of our action or disputation; and then to
take fit and effectual means to COMPASS that end.}}
1. * [en]
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=November 23 1921 | journal=The New Republic | volume=28 | number=364 | page=2
|passage=The immediate problem is how to COMPASS that end: by the seizure of
territory or by the cultivation of the goodwill of the people whose business
she seeks.}}
1. [en] To plot ; to scheme (against someone).
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1600 | chapter=The Arraignment and Judgement of Captain Thomas Lee | year_published=1809 | author=R. Bagshaw | title=Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials | volume=1 | pages=1403–04
|passage=That he plotted and COMPASSED to raise Sedition and Rebellion [...]}}
1. * 1794 November 1, _Speech of Mr. Erskine in Behalf of Hardy_ , published in 1884 , by Chauncey Allen Goodrich, in _Select British Eloquence_ , page 719:
2. *: But it went beyond it by the loose construction of COMPASSING to depose the King, [ ... ]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1915 | title=The Wireless Age | volume=2 | page=580
|passage=The Bavarian felt a mad wave of desire for her sweep over him. What
scheme wouldn't he COMPASS to mould that girl to his wishes.}}
***** Synonyms
- [surround] [en] , [en] , [en]
- [go about or around entirely] [en] , [en]
- [accomplish] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] to, reach
- [plot (against someone)] [en] , [en] , [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[surround]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[go about or round entirely]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Middle English: [enm]
[trans-bottom]
[accomplish]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Middle English: [enm]
[trans-bottom]
[plot]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Middle English: [enm]
[trans-bottom]
**** Adverb
[en-adv]
1. [en] In a circuit; round about.
2. * [author= 吴语: John Smith (explorer)]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1658 | author= [Sir Thomas Browne] | title=Urne-Burial | url=http://www.amazon.com/Urne-Burial-Penguin-Great-Thomas-Browne/dp/0141023910 | page=9 | publisher=Penguin | year_published=2005 | isbn=9780141023915
|passage=Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards COMPASSE were
digged up coals and incinerated substances, [...]}}
**** Further reading
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*** References
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:Webster 1913]
[en]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]