Crossword-Solution: COMPASS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Compass | n. | A passing round; circuit; circuitous course. |
| Compass | n. | An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall. |
| Compass | n. | An inclosed space; an area; extent. |
| Compass | n. | Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination. |
| Compass | n. | Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within. |
| Compass | n. | The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument. |
| Compass | n. | 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. |
| Compass | n. | A pair of compasses. |
| Compass | n. | A circle; a continent. |
| Compass | v. t. | To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of. |
| Compass | v. t. | To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about. |
| Compass | v. t. | To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish. |
| Compass | v. t. | To curve; to bend into a circular form. |
| Compass | v. t. | To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot. |
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Sentences with COMPASS (5)
Thither came _Uriel_, gliding through the Eeven On a Sun beam, swift as a shooting Starr In _Autumn_ thwarts the night, when vapors fir’d Impress the Air, and shews the Mariner From what point of his Compass to beware Impetuous winds: he thus began in haste.
For a moment he seemed impressed with the speaking loneliness of the scene, or rather with the complete abstraction from all its compass of the sights and sounds of man.
There the Capitol thou seest, Above the rest lifting his stately head On the Tarpeian rock, her citadel Impregnable; and there Mount Palatine, 50 The imperial palace, compass huge, and high The structure, skill of noblest architects, With gilded battlements, conspicuous far, Turrets, and terraces, and glittering spires.
While lecturing to students he showed them that the current flowing in a wire held over a magnetic compass needle and at right angles to it (that is east-west) had no effect on the needle.
Farewell!” THROUGH THE CARRION CAVES Straight toward the north, day and night, our destination compass led us after the fleeing flier upon which it had remained set since I first attuned it after leaving the thern fortress.
Quotes with COMPASS (3)
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. The universe is no…
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness.
I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am; Maelström of passions in that hidden sea Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me; And in small compass the dark waters cram.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, WSJ.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).