Compass vs Bore - What's the difference?
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A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
* John Locke
A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).
* Jonathan Swift
(music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A space within limits; area.
* 1763 , M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), page 47:
* Addison
* 1913 ,
(obsolete) An enclosing limit; boundary; circumference.
Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within .
* Sir J. Davies
Scope.
* Wordsworth
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , Oxford University Press (1973), section 8:
* 1844 , (Edgar Allan Poe),
(obsolete) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
* Bible, 2 Kings iii. 9
* Shakespeare
To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 5 scene 1
To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
(dated) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
* 1763 , Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emilius; or, an essay on education , translated by M. Nugent, page 117:
* 1816 , Catholicon: or, the Christian Philosopher , volume 3, from July to December 1816, page 56:
* 1857 , Gilbert Burnet, Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: from the Restoration of King Charles the Second to the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht in the Reign of Queen Anne , page 657:
* 1921 November 23, The New Republic , volume 28, number 364, page 2:
(dated) To plot; to scheme (against someone).
* 1600', ''The Arraignment and Judgement of Captain Thomas Lee'', published in '''1809 , by R. Bagshaw, in ''Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials , volume 1, page 1403–04:
* 1794' November 1, ''Speech of Mr. Erskine in Behalf of Hardy'', published in '''1884 , by Chauncey Allen Goodrich, in ''Select British Eloquence , page 719:
* 1915 , The Wireless Age , volume 2, page 580:
(obsolete) In a circuit; round about.
* 1658 , (w), Urne-Burial , Penguin (2005), ISBN 9780141023915, page 9:
(senseid)To inspire boredom in somebody.
* Shakespeare
* Carlyle
(senseid)To make a hole through something.
* Shakespeare
To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
* T. W. Harris
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
* John Gay
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
* Dryden
(of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
A hole drilled or milled through something.
* Francis Bacon
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired.
A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
* Hawthorne
Calibre; importance.
* Shakespeare
A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.
(bear)
In obsolete terms the difference between compass and bore
is that compass is in a circuit; round about while bore is to fool; to trick.As an adverb compass
is in a circuit; round about.compass
English
(wikipedia compass)Noun
(es)- 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 .
Synonyms
* (magnetic direction finder) magnetic compass * (device used to draw circular curves) pair of compassesHyponyms
* (pair of compasses) beam compassDerived terms
* beam compass * bow compass * compass card * compass error * compass needle * compass plant * compass point * compass rose * compass swing * gyrocompass * magnetic compass * mariner's compass * moral compass * pair of compasses * radio compass * telltale compass (pair of compasses) * beam compassVerb
(es)- 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.
Quotations
* *: And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.Synonyms
* (surround) encircle, environ, surround * (go about or around entirely) cover, traverse * (accomplish) accomplish, achieve, attain, gain, get to, reach * conspire, plot, schemeAdverb
(en adverb)- Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances,
References
* *bore
English
(wikipedia bore)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; confer German drillen.Verb
(bor)- He bores me with some trick.
- used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
- I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored .
- to bore for water or oil
- An insect bores into a tree.
- to bore''' a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to '''bore a hole
- short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
- to bore one's way through a crowd
- What bustling crowds I bored .
- This timber does not bore well.
- They take their flight boring to the west.
- (Crabb)
- I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, / Baffled and bored , it seems.
Antonyms
* interestSynonyms
* SeeNoun
(en noun)- the bore of a cannon
- the bores of wind instruments
- It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
- Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.