Compass in a sentence as a noun

So that's what's tipping the scales on my moral compass.

You pay a dollar, you get a pizza compass.

> I think it's good for a moral compass to be partly dictated by the state.

Is your moral compass really dictated by the state?

I believe in the end, it's not Jonathan you need to reach out to, it's your own moral compass.

As a result, sure, he has to live a carefully examined life, and make sure the projects he's working on aren't skewing his compass.

Well, clearly this guy's moral compass is a bit out of whack, but the IAmA does offer some fascinating insights into this world...

Compass in a sentence as a verb

There is also the infamous compass video [1] where multiple devices all with different hardware report different readings.

The reason why the Mercator projection was popular for so long is that its angles correspond to compass points and you navigate by a trivial algorithm:1.

My Reputation in my Calling I will honourably guard; but I will in no way go about to compass or wrest judgement or gratification from any one with whom I may deal.

They came close to uniting Eurasia into a world empire, and in so doing they spread throughout it technologies like paper, gunpowder, paper money, or the compass and trousers.

" [0] The author's basic argument is that brands have historically filled an information gap. Before the Internet, when consumers didn't have tons of on-demand info about products, brands were a compass that pointed them in the right direction.

The failure to recognize the good in America, indeed the many ways in which it still leads the world, and see the difference between a free country with perhaps too-strict sentencing guidelines and one which enslaves and kills its people for purely political transgressions, is indicative of the erosion of one axis of our moral compass and the early sign of a culture and a nation turning in on itself and destroying itself.

Compass definitions

noun

navigational instrument for finding directions

noun

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"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"

See also: scope range reach orbit ambit

noun

the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"

See also: range reach grasp

noun

drafting instrument used for drawing circles

verb

bring about; accomplish; "This writer attempts more than his talents can compass"

verb

travel around, either by plane or ship; "We compassed the earth"

See also: circumnavigate

verb

get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

See also: grok comprehend savvy grasp apprehend