Compass vs Direct - 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:
Straight, constant, without interruption.
Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
Straightforward; sincere.
* Shakespeare
Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
* John Locke
* Hallam
In the line of descent; not collateral.
(astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.
Directly.
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 346:
To manage, control, steer.
To aim (something) at (something else).
To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
* Lubbock
To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
* Shakespeare
(dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.
In dated|lang=en terms the difference between compass and direct
is that compass is (dated) to plot; to scheme (against someone) while direct is (dated) to put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.As verbs the difference between compass and direct
is that compass is to surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round while direct is to manage, control, steer.As adverbs the difference between compass and direct
is that compass is (obsolete) in a circuit; round about while direct is directly.As a noun compass
is a magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).As an adjective direct is
straight, constant, without interruption.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
* *direct
English
Adjective
(er)- the most direct route between two buildings
- Be even and direct with me.
- He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
- a direct and avowed interference with elections
- a descendant in the direct line
Antonyms
* indirectDerived terms
* direct action * direct current * direct flight * direct initiative * direct object * direct quoteAdverb
(en adverb)- Presumably Mary is to carry messages that she, Anne, is too delicate to convey direct .
Verb
(en verb)- to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army
- They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.
- He directed his question to the room in general.
- He directed me to the left-hand road.
- the next points to which I will direct your attention
- She directed them to leave immediately.
- I'll first direct my men what they shall do.
- to direct a letter