Room vs Compass - What's the difference?

Room is a synonym of compass.

As nouns the difference between room and compass

is that room is joy, happiness 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.

room

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) roum, rom, rum, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)

(dialectal, or, obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) rome, from (etyl) .

Adverb

(en adverb)

(dialectal, or, obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.

(nautical) Off from the wind.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) roum, from (etyl) through Indo-European. More at (l). Apparently an exception to the , which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation , but /a?/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in Modern English.

Noun

(en noun)

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) I:

Thou lorde whiche knowest the hertes of all men, shewe whether thou hast chosen of these two, that the one maye take the roume of this ministracion, and apostleshippe from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he myght goo to his awne place.

* 1748 , (Samuel Richardson), (Clarissa) :

Nor shalt thou give me room to doubt whether it be necessity or love, that inspires this condescending impulse.

(label) Space for'' something, or ''to carry out an activity.

* 2010 , Jonathan Franklin, The Guardian , 27 Aug 2010:

He explains they have enough room to stand and lie down, points out the "little cup to brush our teeth", and the place where they pray.

(label) A particular portion of space.

* (rfdate) (Thomas Overbury) (c.1581-1613)

If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse.

* (rfdate) Bible, (w) xiv. 8

When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room .

* (rfdate) (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance.

* 2010 , Roger Bootle, The Telegraph , 12 Sep 2010:

There are major disagreements within the Coalition and politicians always want to retain room for manoeuvre.

(label) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.

(label) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.

* 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) :

Miss Bingley made no answer, and soon afterwards she got up and walked about the room .

* , chapter=10

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room', at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a '''room''' like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a ' room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}

(label) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.

* , chapter=6

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room . I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}

(label) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.

(label) An area for working in a coal mine. (jump)

(label) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. (jump)

Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.

* (rfdate) Bible, (w) ii. 22

When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod.

* (rfdate) (William Tyndale) (1494-1536)

Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Let Bianca take her sister's room .

Quotations

* (English Citations of "room")

Synonyms

* (jump) elbow room, legroom, space * (jump) chamber, quarters * (jump) chamber * See also

Derived terms

* art room * AV room * backroom * ballroom * bathroom * bedroom * billiards room * blue room * boardroom * boiler room * box-room * break room * changing room * chat room * classroom * clean my room * cold room * common room * computer room * control room * copy room * courtroom * cutting room * darkroom * delivery room * dining room * discussion room * display room * dormroom * dressing room * elbow room * elephant in the room * embalming room * emergency room * engine room * examination room * fitting room * Florida room * front room * game room * get a room * giftwrapping room * green room * guest room * headroom * inner room * in the room * lamp room * laundry room * legroom * living room * locker room * lunchroom * map room * meditation room * meeting room * mud room * music room * need a room * newsroom * no room at the inn * operating room * padded room * panic room * plant room * play room * pool room * powder room * prep room * press room * private room * pump room * reading room * ready room * recording room * reptile room * romper room * room and board * room at the top * room for abuse * room for apology * room for dessert * room for error * room for improvement * room service * room to breathe * room to grow * room to roam * room with a view * roommate * roomie * roomy * rubber room * rumpus room * save room * school room * science room * screening room * sewing room * showroom * sitting room * sound room * spare room * standing room only * steam room * storeroom * strong room * study room * sunroom * the other room * the upper room * upstairs room * viewing room * waiting room * war room * washroom * weightroom * wiggle room * work the room * workroom

Verb

To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.

Derived terms

* roomer * room together * roomy

Statistics

External links

* (wikipedia "room")

Anagrams

* * 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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