Compass can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Adverb |
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| compass - In a circuit; round about. | ||
Verb |
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| compass - bring about; accomplish; "This writer attempts more than his talents can compass" | ||
| compass - get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" | ||
| compass - travel around, either by plane or ship; "We compassed the earth" | ||
Noun |
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| compass - the limit of capability; "within the compass of education" | ||
| compass - navigational instrument for finding directions | ||
| compass - drafting instrument used for drawing circles | ||
| compass - an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power" |
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| 1. | noun | Within the compass of education. | |
| 2. | noun | Within the compass of this article. | |
| 3. | noun | Hikers need to carry a compass with them to find their way through the woods. | |
| 4. | noun | Charles Walcot investigated the magnetic compass bearing sense in pigeons. | |
| 5. | noun | But the compass isn't in the head of the bee, it's in the body. | |
| 6. | noun | But where is this compass? | |
| 7. | noun | This is beyond the compass of my ability. | |
| 8. | noun | I don't know how to use this compass. | |
| 9. | noun | I have no sense of direction so I always travel with a compass. | |
| 10. | noun | A baby has no moral compass. | |
| 11. | noun | Do they have something like a compass? | |
| 12. | noun | The compass pointer always seeks north. | |
| 13. | noun | It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. | |
| 14. | noun | A society without religion is like a ship without a compass. | |
| 15. | noun | The compass points to the north. | |
| 16. | verb | This writer attempts more than his talents can compass. | |
| 17. | verb | "Hither, where now the walls and fortress high, / of Carthage, and her rising homes are found, / they came, and there full cheaply did they buy, / such space – called Byrsa from the deed – of ground / as one bull's-hide could compass and surround." | |
| 18. | verb | "Now learn, how best to compass my design. / To Tyrian Carthage hastes the princely boy, / prompt at the summons of his sire divine, / my prime solicitude, my chiefest joy, / fraught with brave store of gifts, saved from the flames of Troy." |
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| noun | |
| Within the compass of education. |
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| Within the compass of this article. |
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| Hikers need to carry a compass with them to find their way through the woods. | |
| Charles Walcot investigated the magnetic compass bearing sense in pigeons. | |
| But the compass isn't in the head of the bee, it's in the body. | |
| But where is this compass? | |
| This is beyond the compass of my ability. | |
| I don't know how to use this compass. | |
| I have no sense of direction so I always travel with a compass. | |
| A baby has no moral compass. | |
| Do they have something like a compass? | |
| The compass pointer always seeks north. | |
| It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. | |
| A society without religion is like a ship without a compass. | |
| The compass points to the north. | |
| verb | |
| This writer attempts more than his talents can compass. |
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| "Hither, where now the walls and fortress high, / of Carthage, and her rising homes are found, / they came, and there full cheaply did they buy, / such space – called Byrsa from the deed – of ground / as one bull's-hide could compass and surround." | |
| "Now learn, how best to compass my design. / To Tyrian Carthage hastes the princely boy, / prompt at the summons of his sire divine, / my prime solicitude, my chiefest joy, / fraught with brave store of gifts, saved from the flames of Troy." | |