compass

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈkʌmpəs/    美 /ˈkʌmpəs/|/ˈkɐmpəs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. 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. 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. A space within limits; an area. obsolete
    — 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. An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference. obsolete
    — within the compass of an encircling wall
  6. 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. Synonym of scope. formal
    — the compass of his argument
  8. Range, reach. obsolete
    — 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. A passing round; circuit; circuitous course. obsolete
    — 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. A curved circular form.
动词 v.
  1. To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
    — Now all the blessings Of a glad father compass thee about!
  2. To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
    — So she goeth around the hill compassing.
  3. To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain. dated
    — […] 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; […]
  4. To plot; to scheme (against someone). dated
    — That he plotted and compassed to raise Sedition and Rebellion [...]
副词 adv.
  1. In a circuit; round about. obsolete
    — [T]he Towne is impailed about halfe a mile compaſſe.

词形变化

compasses plural compasses present,singular,third-person compassing participle,present compassed participle,past compassed past more compass comparative most compass superlative

词汇关系

近义词
pair of compasses
衍生词
all points of the compass astrocompass beam compass biocompass bow compass box the compass Brunton compass cabin compass Chinese compass color compass compass cactus compass card compass deflection compass dial compass error compass jellyfish compassless compass needle compass out compass plane compass plant compass point compass rose compass saw compass swing compass termite compass timber compass wallah compass window every point of the compass fetch a compass gyrocompass gyro compass gyromagnetic compass gyroscope compass gyroscopic compass hanging compass magnetic compass mariner's compass moral compass pair of compasses prismatic compass qibla compass radio compass scribing compass Square and Compass telltale compass tell-tale compass variation compass accompass compassable encompass incompass outcompass

词源

词源 1
From Middle English compas (“a circle, circuit, limit, form, a mathematical instrument”), from Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus (“a circle, a circuit”), from Latin com- (“together”) + passus (“a pace, step, later a pass, way, route”); see pass, pace.
词源 2
From Middle English compassen (“to go around, make a circuit, draw a circle, contrive, intend”), from Old French compasser; from the noun; see compass as a noun.
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