Event vs Compass - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between event and compass

is that event is blowhole (of cetaceans) while compass is a magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).

As a verb compass is

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

As an adverb compass is

(obsolete) in a circuit; round about.

event

English

(wikipedia event)

Noun

(en noun)

An occurrence; something that happens.

* Macaulay

the events of his early years

An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

*, II.3.3:

hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].

* 1707 , , by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8

Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event .

* Young

dark doubts between the promise and event

In the event , he turned out to have what I needed anyway.

(physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.

(computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.

(probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

X

is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be:

X = 1

X = 2

X \ge 5, X \not = 4,

and

X \isin \{1,3,5\}

(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

* Shakespeare

Leave we him to his events .

(lb) An episode of severe health conditions.

Derived terms

* blessed event * credit event * current events * doomsday event * eventful * event horizon * eventless * eventual * in the event * K-T extinction event * media event * quick time event * risk event * sentinel event * social event * speciation event * to be wise after the event

External links

* * 1000 English basic words

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,

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