Synonym: ambit, apprehend, circumnavigate, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, orbit, range, reach, savvy, scope. Similar words: encompass, impasse, pass, compare, company, passe, compact, pass out. Meaning: ['kʌmpəs] 
n. 1. navigational instrument for finding directions 2. an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet" 3. the limit of capability 4. drafting instrument used for drawing circles. v. 1. bring about; accomplish 2. travel around, either by plane or ship 3. get the meaning of something.
n. 1. navigational instrument for finding directions 2. an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet" 3. the limit of capability 4. drafting instrument used for drawing circles. v. 1. bring about; accomplish 2. travel around, either by plane or ship 3. get the meaning of something. 
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91. Nathan's gaze flicked over sails, lines, winches and compass, in a swift visual check.
92. As though, in fact, the entire world were within our compass.
93. Remember that the magnetic compass, clock and stop-watch are your most important navigation instruments.
94. Will it be a useful reference route map and a compass?
95. His distinguishing trait is an unwavering moral compass, conspicuous by its absence in college basketball.
96. But try sitting on them and they will end up flattened with four feet splayed out to all points of the compass.
97. Then he builds his own compass as the crew looks on with suspicion.
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98. Most urgent that twenty five exactly same type be despatched for modification to fix mounts for twin Vickers guns and sun compass.
99. Compass errors are an awful nuisance and it is well worth finding out a little about them.
100. A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass. Colin Powell 
101. He used his new plastic compass to hold a bearing due north.
102. Check heading when compass has stabilised. 8. Make small corrections to achieve heading as necessary.
103. Police even stopped one souvenir hunter cycling off with the ship's compass tucked under his arm.
104. The very last thing I note is which direction a swim faces and for this I carry a small compass.
105. He spent two years with the Link-Up community theatre group and has directed for the Compass Theatre.
106. If this is simply a directional gyro it must be synchronised with the magnetic compass at frequent intervals.
107. He knew it was a question of keeping a direction in your head, like a compass needle.
108. Good comfortable boots are essential, as are map and compass and the ability to navigate.
109. I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world.
110. The horn part continues to be written entirely as for horn in F and its true character lies within the comfortable F-horn compass.
111. She marked the meridians, numbered the latitudes and longitudes(sentencedict.com), and added a curlicue of compass points to make it navigable.
112. THE leaves of the compass plant always point north.
113. the oscillation of the compass needle.
114. Explore the interactions between a compass and bar magnet.
115. Radio compass is a usual navigation unit on aircraft.
116. Supplementary miniature mariner's compass is beauty and practical.
117. Stayed within the compass of the schoolyard.
118. Fireworks, wood-block printing, canal lock-gates, kites, the wheelbarrow, chain suspension bridges and the magnetic compass.
119. Our historic idealism was the best compass through the new perils.
120. By passing an electric current through a metal wire suspended above a magnetic compass , Oersted was able to produce a definite motion of the compass needle in response to the current.
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