compass

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).

   “[H]ow many Seas to our fore-fathers impaſſable, for want of the Compaſſe?”

2. isim A pair of compasses (a device used to draw circular arcs and transfer length measurements).

   “to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please”

3. isim The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.

   “You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.”

4. isim A space within limits; an area.

   “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.”

5. isim An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference.

   “within the compass of an encircling wall”

6. isim Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.

   “In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed.”

7. isim Synonym of scope.

   “the compass of his argument”

8. isim Range, reach.

   “Lou's not Times foole, though roſie lips and cheeks VVithin his bending ſickles compaſſe come, Loue alters not with his breefe houres and vveekes, But beares it out euen to the edge of doome: If this be error and vpon me proued, I neuer vvrit, nor no man euer loued.”

9. isim A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.

   “This day I breathed first; time is come round, / And where I did begin, there shall I end; / My life is run his compass.”

10. isim A curved circular form.
11. fiil To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.

    “Now all the blessings Of a glad father compass thee about!”

12. fiil To go about or round entirely; to traverse.

    “So she goeth around the hill compassing.”

13. fiil To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.

    “[…] tho' theſe ſeem'd to be very unfit Inſtruments for compaſſing of that great Deſign for which they were then employ'd, becauſe of their Inability and Uncapacity in performing the Work ſo very great and important; […]”

14. fiil To plot; to scheme (against someone).

    “That he plotted and compassed to raise Sedition and Rebellion [...]”

15. zarf In a circuit; round about.

    “[T]he Towne is impailed about halfe a mile compaſſe.”