Compass
['kʌmpəs]
解释:
(noun.) navigational instrument for finding directions.
(noun.) drafting instrument used for drawing circles.
(noun.) the limit of capability; 'within the compass of education'.
(verb.) bring about; accomplish; 'This writer attempts more than his talents can compass'.
黛安娜校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
(n.) An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.
(n.) An inclosed space; an area; extent.
(n.) Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination.
(n.) Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within.
(n.) The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A pair of compasses.
(n.) A circle; a continent.
(v. t.) To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.
(v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about.
(v. t.) To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.
(v. t.) To curve; to bend into a circular form.
(v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.
艾娜录入
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Encompass, environ, surround, encircle, enclose, engird, compass about.[2]. Besiege, invest, beset, hem in, hedge in, wall in, lay siege to.[3]. Attain, obtain, procure, accomplish, effect, perform, achieve, consummate, realize, carry, bring about, bring to pass.[4]. (Law.) Meditate, contrive, plot, purpose, intend, devise.
n. [1]. Stretch, reach, extent, range.[2]. Circuit, round, circular course.
录入:尼科尔
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Area, enclosure, circuit, circumference, horizon
ANT:Common, space, tract, expanse, boundlessness, limitlessness, indefiniteness
SYN:Encompass, surround, enclose, environ, circumscribe, embrace, achieve, effect,effectuate, consummate, complete, circumvent
ANT:Expand, disband, unfold, amplify, display, dismiss, liberate, discard, fail,bungle, botch, misconceive, mismanage, misconstrue
杰米整理
解释:
n. a circuit or circle: space: limit: range a limit of tones of a voice or instrument: the circumference: girth: an instrument consisting of a magnetised needle used to steer ships by &c. the needle indicating on a card the absolute directions at any given time: (pl.) an instrument consisting of two movable legs for describing circles &c.—v.t. to pass or go round: to surround or enclose: to besiege: to bring about or obtain: to contrive or plot: to accomplish.—adj. Com′passable capable of being compassed.—ns. Com′pass-card the circular card of a compass; Com′passing contrivance: design; Com′pass-plane a plane convex on the under side for smoothing curved timber; Com′pass-saw a saw that cuts in a circular manner; Com′pass-sig′nal a signal denoting a point in the compass; Com′pass-tim′ber curved timber used for shipbuilding &c.; Com′pass-win′dow a semicircular bay-window.—Box the compass (see Box); Fetch a compass to go round in a circuit.
阿维斯整理
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a compass, denotes you will be forced to struggle in narrow limits, thus making elevation more toilsome but fuller of honor. To dream of the compass or mariner's needle, foretells you will be surrounded by prosperous circumstances and honest people will favor you. To see one pointing awry, foretells threatened loss and deception.
整理:米莉
例句:
- I got some data and made up my mind that what was needed was a very powerful engine for its weight, in small compass. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Thus the Barnacles were all over the world, in every direction--despatch-boxing the compass. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- All battleships in the United States Navy are now fitted with the gyroscopic compass. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- You wind in and out and here and there, in the most mysterious way, and have no more idea of the points of the compass than if you were a blind man. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- In this rain we need a compass. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Inventions-- Alphabetical Writing; Arabic Notation; The Mariner's Compass; The Telescope; The Steam Engine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Hush,' said Sam, swinging himself on to the wall, and crouching there in as small a compass as he could reduce himself to, 'only me, miss, only me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- An other piece of commonplace knowledge--the cardinal points of the compass--may be accepted, likewise, without inquiry or without recognition of its importance. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- In the construction of a temple or a pyramid not merely was it necessary to have regard to the points of the compass, but care must be taken to have the sides at right angles. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- From this starting-point I proceeded to step, having first taken the cardinal points by my pocket-compass. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Compasses are sometimes carried on masts in iron vessels as a means of removing them from the disturbing influence of the iron of the hull. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford for its centre. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- He compassed it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Our situation was somewhat dangerous, especially as we were compassed round by a very thick fog. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- The main object compassed, the drooping, miserable party sat down to wait for the sun again, for all wanted to see the water as well as feel it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
手打:托德