What's the difference between circumnavigate and compass?

Circumnavigate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To sail completely round.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even as Germany and Austria have moved in recent days to streamline the movement of refugees from Hungary towards western Europe, people smugglers have found brisk business in helping desperate refugees circumnavigate a European asylum system that seems as weighted against them as ever.
  • (2) So there’s a bunch of design work that we can do and is very, very important.” Circular economy: the top five stories of 2014 Read more Ellen MacArthur, who broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe and is now a leading activist in creating a circular economy, also said changes in all sectors of society are needed.
  • (3) Unless there are plans to circumnavigate the statute book, then a separate hybrid bill will have to be introduced."
  • (4) Nuclear circumnavigation generally proceeded in one direction, could be in similar or opposite direction in neighboring myelinating SCs on the same axon, and was not proportional to the number of major dense lines within the myelin sheath.
  • (5) O'Brien today criticised the INM board for "considering refinancing proposals which would be highly dilutive" and accused the company of attempting to "circumnavigate" shareholders.
  • (6) The Mount Pleasant depot, so big it takes a good 10 minutes to circumnavigate on foot, is itself a symbol of the assets potentially on offer to purchasers of the Royal Mail .
  • (7) These include (a) Gelfilm (no-graft) induction of tympanic membrane regrowth; (b) the use of tragal cartilage and perichondrium in columellization and in Type III neomyringostapediopexy; (c) the use of laboratory-prefabricated ossicular homografts to correct malleal-capitulum and malleal-footplate discontinuities more precisely; and (d) the circumferential approach (circumnavigation of patient's head) and anterior position of the surgeon in order to visualize the sinus tympani, retropyramidal, and retrofacial areas, obviating extensive posterior tympanotomy bone dissections.
  • (8) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian MacArthur, who broke the record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2005, says fundamental reform is needed.
  • (9) She said: "Legislation is required to prevent abortion providers establishing subsidiary counselling organisations in order to circumnavigate the new requirement.
  • (10) Yet, with the players having returned for pre-season preparations earlier this week, Brighton have now circumnavigated that issue by securing García, who departed Tel Aviv at the end of last season citing personal reasons, in the newly created brief.
  • (11) Four human subjects each moved his nondominant arm between an upper target and a lower target, while circumnavigating a barrier that extended outward from the vertical plane of the targets.
  • (12) The island can be reached from the mainland on the Ilala passenger ferry, which passes through on its weekly circumnavigation of the lakeshore.
  • (13) On Thursday he sounded hoarse and shrill as he poured scorn on opponents for the umpteenth time, causing much amusement among Twitter users merrily circumnavigating the ban .
  • (14) For an exciting and downright hair-raising trip try circumnavigating the island on an offshore powerboat.
  • (15) Although Actel makes a big claim that their devices are extremely secure because there is no physical path for the configuration data to be read to the outside world, a back door was added with a special key to circumnavigate all the security set by themselves or one of their users."
  • (16) Beaumont held the world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle, covering 18,296 miles in 194 days 17 hours.
  • (17) As to Georg Forster a graduation "praemii loco" is concerned in recognition of the excellent achievements in natural sciences of the scientist who took part in the second circumnavigation of the globe by Cook.
  • (18) That leaves Liam Fox to play Sir Francis Drake, looking for domestic glory in global circumnavigation but seen from abroad as a pirate.
  • (19) This image of the one guy circumnavigating the globe in a ludicrous soundtrack of success.
  • (20) Then it's on to Schinoussa, famed for its beaches, and Iraklia, the most mountainous of the Small Cyclades, for a circumnavigation of the island, looking out for dolphins and monk seals on the way.

Compass


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I woke up yesterday morning with an inbox, in full capacity of love and compassion,” she wrote.
  • (2) These boys showed a lack of compassion to our daughter and to their community as a whole."
  • (3) Speaking at a film festival in Dubai he said: "My compass has not stopped spinning," referring to the many policy switches made by the party he previously supported.
  • (4) The letter is particularly striking given that some of signatories are on the party's centre right, such as Progress and Policy Network, and others on the left, such as key figures at Compass and Class.
  • (5) Male eastern red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) under controlled laboratory conditions exhibit unimodal magnetic compass orientation either in a trained compass direction or in the direction of their home pond.
  • (6) The grand mufti of Australia, Ibrahim Abu Mohammad, said Islam did not need a reformation “since the normative principles and practices of the religion allow Muslims to harmoniously coexist within pluralist societies that are based on the universal values of compassion and justice”.
  • (7) What it says is that their moral code is lacking any kind of compass we can endorse,” said Sharan Burrow, the Ituc general secretary.
  • (8) There has been a great deal of media coverage about the need for staff to demonstrate compassion.
  • (9) It seems that Mrs May’s vicarage upbringing has left her more than a little lacking in Christian compassion.
  • (10) When Malcolm Turnbull was asked about Asha specifically he said he wouldn’t comment on individual cases but that we’ll be treating all people with compassion.
  • (11) What an inspiration: teaching us all to embrace life, look after each other, and have love and compassion no matter what May 14, 2014 Comedian Jason Manford, who championed Stephen's cause and helped him surpass his fundraising goal, released a statement on Wednesday afternoon: Guardian readers have also added their tributes in the comments of the article about his death, with one reflecting on the way Stephen mastered social media in order to raise money for charity and document his story.
  • (12) I’m sure if my father was around, if he had the opportunity to meet her he would be reminding her that compassion was important, that ethics in public life was important, and that compromise was important.
  • (13) Staff do not always honour the pledge on compassion in the NHS Constitution to "respond with humanity and kindness to each person's pain, distress, anxiety or need", he added.
  • (14) More than that, the proposition acts as a compass for Labour policy proposals ie: "How does a particular policy contribute towards work, public income and a caring society?"
  • (15) In a letter to the prime minister he urged Cameron to show “compassion and human kindness” .
  • (16) It is essential, then, in order to lessen the tendency toward neurosis, that such women be treated with compassion, competence, patience and psychiatric care, and that they be made fully aware of surgical procedures and its consequences, as well as the advantages of eugenics.
  • (17) It's music that defines compassion, lament, and loss, to which you can only surrender in moist-eyed wonder.
  • (18) But there is a difference between knowledge of other peoples and other times that is the result of understanding, compassion, careful study and analysis for their own sakes, and on the other hand knowledge that is part of an overall campaign of self-affirmation.
  • (19) For our government at the highest levels to suggest that when it comes to asylum seekers at sea there is no moral compass and no moral limit is not only astonishing and appalling but completely unacceptable,” he said.
  • (20) The norms, practices and capabilities of teams contribute to the formation of effective working relationships and determine whether there is a micro-climate that allows compassion to thrive.