Dictionary Entry
compass
compass is a 7-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A passing round; circuit; circuitous course. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 21 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
- 2noun
An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.
- 3noun
An inclosed space; an area; extent.
- 4noun
Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination.
- 5noun
Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within.
- 6noun
The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.
- 7noun
An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.
- 8noun
A pair of compasses.
- 9noun
A circle; a continent.
- 10transitive verb
To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.
- 11transitive verb
To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about.
- 12transitive verb
To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.
- 13transitive verb
To curve; to bend into a circular form.
- 14transitive verb
To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.
- 15noun
navigational instrument for finding directions
- 16noun
drafting instrument used for drawing circles
- 17noun
an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"
"a piano has a greater range than the human voice"
"the ambit of municipal legislation"
- 18noun
the limit of capability
"within the compass of education"
- 19verb
get the meaning of something
"Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
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- 20verb
travel around, either by plane or ship
"We compassed the earth"
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- 21verb
bring about; accomplish
"This writer attempts more than his talents can compass"
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