compass

compass englannista suomeksi

1. etäisyys, alue

2. kulkea ympäri

3. saavuttaa

4. piiri

5. harppi

6. kompassi

7. ymmärtää

1. kompassi

2. ääniala

3. alue, ala

3. Substantiivi

compass englanniksi

1. A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually North|magnetic or north).

2. (RQ:Purchas Pilgrimes)|section=I|page=2|passage=How many Seas to our fore-fathers impaſſable, for want of the Compaſſe?

3. 1689/1690, (w), ''On improvement of understanding''

He that ... first discovered the use of the compass ... did more for the propagation of knowledge ... than those who built workhouses.

4. {{quote-text|en|year=1890|author=Wilhelm Westhofen|title=The Forth Bridge

5. A of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).

6. {{quote-text|en|year=1701|author=Jonathan Swift|title=A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome|chapter=5

7. The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.

8. (RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)

9. A space within limits; an area.

10. {{quote-book|en|year=1763|author=M. Le Page Du Pratz|title=History of Louisiana|publisher=PG|page=47

11. {{quote-text|en|year=1711|author=Joseph Addison|title=The Spectator

12. (RQ:Lawrence Sons and Lovers)

13. (quote-journal)

14. An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference.

(ux)

15. (RQ:Smith Generall Historie)

16. Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with ''within''.

17. {{quote-text|en|year=c. 1610|author=John Davies|title=Historical Tracts

18. (senseid) (synonym of).

19. (RQ:Wordsworth Excursion)

20. {{quote-text|en|year=1748|author=David Hume|title=Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral|publisher=Oxford University Press|year_published=1973|section=8

21. {{quote-text|en|year=1844|author=Edgar Allan Poe|title=s:Marginalia

22. (quote-book )

23. Range, reach.

24. (RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)

25. A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.

26. (RQ:KJV)

27. (RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar)

28. To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.

29. (RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)

30. (RQ:King James Version)

31. (quote-text)

32. To go about or round entirely; to traverse.

33. To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.

34. (quote-book)|volume=I|year=1720|location=London|publisher=(...) George Strahan,(nb...) William Mears,(nb...)|page=36|pageurl=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Fundamental_Doctrines_of_the_Church/cWLG9hfkuTcC?gbpv=1&pg=PA36|passage=(..) 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; (..)

35. {{quote-text|en|year=1763|translator=M. Nugent|author=Jean-Jacques Rousseau|title=Emilius; or, an essay on education|page=117

36. {{quote-text|en|year=1816|title=Catholicon: or, the Christian Philosopher|volume=3|section=July to December 1816, page 56

37. {{quote-journal|en|date=November 23 1921|journal=The New Republic|volume=28|number=364|page=2

38. To plot; to scheme (against someone).

39. {{quote-text|en|year=1600|chapter=The Arraignment and Judgement of Captain Thomas Lee|year_published=1809|author=R. Bagshaw|title=Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials|volume=1|pages=1403–04

40. 1794 November 1, ''Speech of Mr. Erskine in Behalf of Hardy'', published in 1884, by Chauncey Allen Goodrich, in ''Select British Eloquence'', page 719:

But it went beyond it by the loose construction of compassing to depose the King, ...

41. {{quote-text|en|year=1915|title=The Wireless Age|volume=2|page=580

42. In a circuit; round about.

43. (quote-book)|title=Urne-Burial|url=http://www.amazon.com/Urne-Burial-Penguin-Great-Thomas-Browne/dp/0141023910|page=9|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2005|isbn=9780141023915

44. (alt form)