Definitions for compass

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compass com·pass

Spelling: [kuhm-puh s]

IPA: /ˈkʌm pəs/

Compass is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in compass (acmopss).

Definitions for compass

noun

1. an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north.
2. the enclosing line or limits of any area; perimeter:
3. space within limits; area; extent; range; scope:
4. Also called range. the total range of tones of a voice or of a musical instrument.
5. due or proper limits; moderate bounds:
6. a passing round; circuit:
7. Often, compasses. an instrument for drawing or describing circles, measuring distances, etc., consisting generally of two movable, rigid legs hinged to each other at one end (usually used with pair of):
8. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. Also called Mariner's Compass. the constellation Pyxis. Compasses, the constellation Circinus.

adjective

1. curved; forming a curve or arc:

verb (used with object)

1. to go or move round; make the circuit of:
2. to extend or stretch around; hem in; surround; encircle:
3. to attain or achieve; accomplish; obtain.
4. to contrive; plot; scheme:
5. to make curved or circular.
6. to comprehend; to grasp, as with the mind:

Origin of compass

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English compassen Old French compasser to measure Vulgar Latin *compāssāre, equivalent to compāss(us) equal step (Latin com- com- + pāssus

Examples for compass

He goes on to compass the very nature of memory by way of considering how we memorialize mass death.

We were without a compass, and steered by the direction of the wind and sea.

As a lifelong reader, I have rarely had any sort of compass to guide me.

Muscovites call their favorite station “Ukho Moskvy” (Ear of Moscow) and see it as an institution, a compass for society.

The rock is very magnetic, and the compass is quite useless.

It radiates her inner light and compass, her disregard for status quo.

I was tired of trying to steer a course for myself, with no compass to go by.

A hole, though shaped like an ellipse, in which this well-hung stud had placed it would look as if a compass traced it.

But, nerved as he was by desperation, he found the task greater than he could compass.

This fact is sustained by evidences teeming upon us from every point of the compass.