Compass is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMPASS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to surround or enclose
• go round (something) in a circular course
• surround or hem in on all sides
• contrive to accomplish (something)
• To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.
• To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about.
• To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one\'s power; to obtain; to accomplish.
• To curve; to bend into a circular form.
• To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.
• bring about; accomplish
• travel around, either by plane or ship
• get the meaning of something
• encircle or surround
NOUN:
• an instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it
• an instrument for drawing circles and arcs and measuring distances between points, consisting of two arms linked by a movable joint, one arm ending in a point and the other usually carrying a pencil or pen
• the range or scope of something
• the enclosing limits of an area
• the range of notes that can be produced by a voice or a musical instrument
• instrument for showing direction
• A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
• An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.
• An inclosed space; an area; extent.
• Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination.
• Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within.
• The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.
• 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.
• A pair of compasses.
• A circle; a continent.
• navigational instrument for finding directions
• an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
• the limit of capability
• drafting instrument used for drawing circles
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to go around

Words related to COMPASS

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Words that contain COMPASS

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How to use COMPASS in a sentence

• And ye shall compass your east quarter from Hazar Enan to Sepham.
• The trade-winds blow, more or less, from the eastern half of the compass to the western.
• He knows the compass of his poetical powers, and never attempts anything very lofty or arduous.
• Then they went half a mile farther, where they made a fire, set their compass, and, after a short period of rest, took to the route again and travelled all night.
• The child being the child of a man like you, what I have to say will lie in small compass.
• On a clear night you can tell the points of compass from the stars.
• The compass of the organ far surpasses that of all the instruments of the orchestra.
• Opechanchanough spoke to his brother, telling him of the watch and compass.
• The general question concerning Eagles in Scotland may now be squeezed into very small compass.
• Waterman looked at his compass and decided that the lake must flow into the Portneuf River.
• You see upon the altar of those Degrees the SQUARE and the COMPASS, and you remember how they lay upon the altar in each Degree.
• The Compass, therefore, is the Hermetic Symbol of the Creative Deity, and the Square of the productive Earth or Universe.
• Compass held in the hand on the female side of the Hermetic figure, 850-m.
• Your young friend, still much of a novice in navigation, could only tell his position by means of the log and the compass.
• The variation of the compass here is between 7 and 8 degrees East.
• I found all but one of them, and fetched a compass about the barns and stables, searching until I found her.
• Events so various and so important that they might crowd and distinguish centuries are, in our times, compressed within the compass of a single life.
• As to the points of the compass, the engineer had roughly fixed them by the height and position of the sun, which placed Union Bay and Prospect Heights to the east.
• Then, with this compass in hand, let us explore the vast field of oratorical art, and begin with the voice.
• That the voice be tried and its compass measured in order to ascertain to what species it belongs.
• Ten minutes after the storm struck and the cattle turned to drift with it, all knowledge of the quarter of the compass was lost.
• They listened patiently, and the low, plaintive howl came again and then once more, all from different points of the compass.
• But surely that purpose ought to be a wonderfully good one, to warrant the methods he has taken to compass it.
• As was usual with him, he carried his own compass, noted his observations, and marked out the ground.
• Imagination in vain tries to compass the awful paradox.
• However, it has its merit, and is particularly valuable for containing in a small compass all the principles of Natural Law clearly displayed.
• A precocious sense of the fitness of things was the compass that enabled Peter to steer through the deep waters in the years that followed.
• They travelled due south by the compass until they reached the Alamito River.
• At each point of the compass they erected smaller mounds for the residences of their chief, or child of the Sun, and his ministers of state.

Similar words containing MPAS without suffix s and without prefix co

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