compass

Các nghĩa

1. la bàn

   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?

   a glance at his compass would have shown him that a northerly course instead of an easterly could not be right

2. com-pa

   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. âm vực

   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. phạm vi, giới hạn

   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.

   "Saints!" she cried, "but what a noise you keep! Can you not speak in compass?"

5. phạm vi

   Synonym of scope.

   formal

   the compass of his argument

6. vòng cung

   A curved circular form.

Dạng khác

• compasses plural

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