Compass vs Measure - What's the difference?

Compass is a related term of measure.

In music|lang=en terms the difference between compass and measure

is that compass is (music) the range of notes of a musical instrument or voice while measure is (music) the group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.

As nouns the difference between compass and measure

is that compass is a magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north) while measure is the quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard.

As verbs the difference between compass and measure

is that compass is to surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round while measure is to ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

As an adverb compass

is (obsolete) in a circuit; round about.

compass

English

(wikipedia compass)

Noun

(es)

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

* John Locke

He that first discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses.

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

* Jonathan Swift

to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please

(music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.

* Shakespeare

You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass .

(obsolete) A space within limits; area.

* 1763 , M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), page 47:

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 .

* Addison

Their wisdom lies in a very narrow compass .

* 1913 ,

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 .

(obsolete) An enclosing limit; boundary; circumference.

within the compass of an encircling wall

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

* Sir J. Davies

In two hundred years before (I speak within compass ), no such commission had been executed.

Scope.

* Wordsworth

the compass of his argument

* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , Oxford University Press (1973), section 8:

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.

* 1844 , (Edgar Allan Poe),

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.

(obsolete) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.

* Bible, 2 Kings iii. 9

They fetched a compass of seven days' journey.

* Shakespeare

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 compasses

Hyponyms

* (pair of compasses) beam compass

Derived 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 compass

Verb

(es)

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

* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 5 scene 1

Now all the blessings

Of a glad father compass thee about!

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:

[...] they never find ways sufficient to compass that end.

* 1816 , Catholicon: or, the Christian Philosopher , volume 3, from July to December 1816, page 56:

[...] to settle the end of our action or disputation; and then to take fit and effectual means to compass that end.

* 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:

[...] and was an artful flatterer, when that was necessary to compass his end, in which generally he was successful.

* 1921 November 23, The New Republic , volume 28, number 364, page 2:

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.

(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:

That he plotted and compassed to raise Sedition and Rebellion [...]

* 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, [...]

* 1915 , The Wireless Age , volume 2, page 580:

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, scheme

Adverb

(en adverb)

(obsolete) In a circuit; round about.

* 1658 , (w), Urne-Burial , Penguin (2005), ISBN 9780141023915, page 9:

Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances,

References

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measure

English

(wikipedia measure)

Noun

(en noun)

The quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard.

An (unspecified) quantity or capacity.

* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban'' (in ''The Guardian , 6 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport]

It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.

The precise designated distance between two objects or points.

The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated.

The tailor took my measure for a coat.

* Bible, Job xi. 9

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

The act of measuring.

(Shakespeare)

A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition.

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(music) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.

(dancing) A regulated movement, especially in a slow and stately dance, corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed.

(poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.

a poem in iambic measure

A rule, ruler or measuring stick.

A tactic, strategy or piece of legislation.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

(mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.

(arithmetic, dated) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor.

the greatest common measure of two or more numbers

(geology) A bed or stratum.

coal measures'''; lead '''measures

An indicator; something used to assess some property.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

, title= Man Utd 1-6 Man City , passage=City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.}}

Synonyms

* (musical designation) bar * (precise designated distance) metric

Hyponyms

* (mathematics) positive measure, signed measure, complex measure, Borel measure, , complete measure, Lebesgue measure

Verb

(measur)

To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Towards the end of poverty , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

To estimate the unit size of something.

To judge, value, or appraise.

* (John Milton)

Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?

To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.

(rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.

* (William Shakespeare)

A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.

To adjust by a rule or standard.

* Jeremy Taylor

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires.

To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out'' or ''off .

* Bible, Matthew vii. 2

With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

* Addison

That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.

Derived terms

* measurement * measure stick * measure theory

External links

* * * 1000 English basic words