(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.
Compress
Definition:
(v. t.) To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.
(v. t.) To embrace sexually.
(n.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(3) Ninety-five per cent were suffering from chiasmal compression pre-operatively.
(4) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
(5) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
(6) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(7) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(8) A total of 199 compressions were performed without complications.
(9) In contrast, boundary layer diffusion is operative in the release from the matrixes prepared by compression of physical mixtures.
(10) This was worsened by the right side compression of trachea end part, due to the abnormal left pulmonary artery as demonstrated by pulmonary angiography.
(11) The evolution of tissue damage in compressive spinal cord injuries in rats was studied using an immunohistochemical technique and by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analysis.
(12) Surrounding parenchyma may be partially compressed.
(13) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(14) In the remaining 4 patients MRI provided support for the diagnosis of MS by demonstrating the cervical spinal cord plaques while excluding other potential causes of myelopathy, such as spinal cord compression and intramedullary tumor.
(15) Manual compression of the bladder elicited urine leakage from the urethra, and the urethral closure pressure was markedly low.
(16) It is very important to look out for neurogenic disorders as well as early signs of vascular compression in order to prevent ischaemic injuries.
(17) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
(19) Type II had the anastomosis too high on the gastric pouch, type III was due to an obstructing marginal ulcer, and type IV had a pouchlike deformity develop in the upper jejunum at the anastomosis that gradually compressed the outflow tract.
(20) To induce thrombosis we damaged the vessel wall over a short segment by compression and exposed the damaged media to the blood stream.