English Dictionary

compass

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkʌmpəs/

名詞

廃用 古語

A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north). / A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).

日本語の意味

磁気式または電子式の、方位（通常は磁北または真北）を示すための装置、すなわち羅針盤。 / 平面上に円や弧を描くために使う器具、すなわち描画用のコンパス。

He held the compass steady as he navigated through the dense forest.

深い森を進みながら、彼は方位磁石をしっかりと持っていた。

意味（1）

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

[H]ow many Seas to our fore-fathers impaſſable, for want of the Compaſſe?

意味（2）

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

to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please

意味（3）

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

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

意味（4）

(obsolete) A space within limits; an area.

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.

意味（5）

(obsolete) An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference.

within the compass of an encircling wall

意味（6）

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

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

意味（7）

(archaic) Scope.

the compass of his argument

意味（8）

(obsolete) Range, reach.

Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made, That leads to Pallace of my brothers life, Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not.

意味（9）

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

They fetched a compass of seven days' journey.

compasses （ plural ）