Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Etsitylle sanalle löytyi useampi kirjoitusasu:
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
- A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).
- (music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
- (obsolete) A space within limits; area.
- (obsolete) An enclosing limit; boundary; circumference.
- Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.
- Scope.
- (obsolete) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
Verbit
- To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
- To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
- (dated) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
- (dated) To plot; to scheme (against someone).
Adverbit
- (obsolete) In a circuit; round about.
Esimerkit
- He that first discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses.
- to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please
- You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.
- 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.
- Their wisdom [...] lies in a very narrow compass.
- Clara thought she had never seen him look so small and mean. He was as if trying to get himself into the smallest possible compass.
- within the compass of an encircling wall
- In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed.
- the compass of his argument
- There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding.
- How very commonly we hear it remarked that such and such thoughts are beyond the compass of words! I do not believe that any thought, properly so called, is out of the reach of language.
- They fetched a compass of seven days' journey.
- This day I breathed first; time is come round, / And where I did begin, there shall I end; / My life is run his compass.
- Now all the blessings
- Of a glad father compass thee about!
- [...] they never find ways sufficient to compass that end.
- [...] to settle the end of our action or disputation; and then to take fit and effectual means to compass that end.
- [...] and was an artful flatterer, when that was necessary to compass his end, in which generally he was successful.
- The immediate problem is how to compass that end: by the seizure of territory or by the cultivation of the goodwill of the people whose business she seeks.
- That he plotted and compassed to raise Sedition and Rebellion [...]
- But it went beyond it by the loose construction of compassing to depose the King, [...]
- The Bavarian felt a mad wave of desire for her sweep over him. What scheme wouldn't he compass to mould that girl to his wishes.
- Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances, [...]
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | compassed | Imperfekti | compassed |
| Partisiipin preesens | compassing | Monikko | compasses |
| Komparatiivi | more compass | Superlatiivi | most compass |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | compasses | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | compasseth (vanhahtava) |