What's the difference between compass and traverse?

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.

Traverse


Definition:

  • (a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
  • (adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.
  • (a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses.
  • (a.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
  • (a.) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
  • (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
  • (a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
  • (a.) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.
  • (a.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
  • (a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
  • (a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
  • (a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
  • (a.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
  • (a.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
  • (a.) To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
  • (a.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
  • (a.) To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
  • (a.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
  • (a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
  • (a.) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
  • (v. i.) To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
  • (v. i.) To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
  • (v. i.) To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
  • (2) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
  • (3) The distance traversed by the blood before getting fully oxygenated is computed.
  • (4) A model for IL 2 proliferation was derived on the basis of the two-state model of the cell cycle, with cells leaving a quiescent state randomly and then traversing the other stages of the cell cycle in a determinate way.
  • (5) 17 alpha-estradiol (17 alpha-estradiol) or cholesterol on the number of footfaults made by female rats traversing a narrow suspended beam was investigated.
  • (6) The cdc2 and CDC28 gene products (lower-case letters represent genes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and capital letters genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae) are functionally homologous, suggesting that the processes involved in traverse of 'start' are highly conserved.
  • (7) After treatment of Chinese hamster cells (line CHO) with various protocols for synchrony induction, the subsequent ability of cells to traverse the cell cycle (i e., to perform, an essential cell cycle process) has been determined by measurement of the DNA distribution pattern among cells in large populations with the Los Alamos flow microfluorometer In the cultures prepared by the various synchronizing techniques the vast majority of cells traversed the cell cycle in a normal fashion; however, in all cultures examined there remained small subpopulations which, though remaining viable for several days, could not carry out normal traverse.
  • (8) As clinicians comprehend more fully the multifaceted areas of resistance to treatment, they will be able to help their eating-disordered patients traverse a therapeutic impasse.
  • (9) Circular dichroic studies and hydropathy profiling of the amino-acid sequence of this 'lac' permease suggest a secondary structure in which the polypeptide consists of 12 hydrophobic segments in alpha-helical conformation that traverse the membrane in zig-zag fashion connected by shorter, hydrophilic domains with most of the charged residues and many of the residues commonly found in beta-turns.
  • (10) The integrity of the talocalcaneal joint was maintained by two strong ligaments traversing the tarsal sinus between the two bones.
  • (11) Second, in addition to the major bolus of labeled material that traversed the cells at about 6 h, a smaller wave of radioactivity appeared to pass through the Golgi apparatus and secretory granules and reach the lumen earlier, within the first few hours after the injection.
  • (12) Use of the endoscopic Congo red test provides physiologic evidence that vagus secretory nerve fibers traverse the right and left gastroepiploic nerves, leading us to believe that the gastroepiploic nerves should be routinely divided during proximal gastric vagotomy.
  • (13) The enzyme is in the soluble portion of the cells and the steroids have to traverse the membrane in both directions.
  • (14) During intestinal absorption amino acids must traverse the lipid-rich epithelial cell membrane, possibly in a lipid-soluble form.
  • (15) • Chris Goode's Men in the Cities is at the Traverse until 24 August.
  • (16) These results demonstrate that the type VII collagen of human cutaneous anchoring fibrils and plaques is secreted by keratinocytes and can traverse the epidermal basal lamina and that the fibril formation can occur in the absence of cells of human dermal origin.
  • (17) Double-reciprocal plotting of Ca2+ traversal rates in cholesterol-containing liposomes vs. calcium concentration suggests that cholesterol inhibits Ca2+ traversal by competing with Ca2+ for PA.
  • (18) The blood-borne protein traversed the autonomic graft and infiltrated into the host brain for distances between 200 micron in intraparenchymal grafts to over 1 mm in intraventricular grafts; a smaller exudate was found in the intraparenchymal model than in the intraventricular site probably due to glial scarring that impeded the protein movement in the interstitial spaces.
  • (19) Other robots in the Boston Dynamics stable include Petman, a robot that tests humanoid chemical protective clothing; the wheeled SandFlea robot that can leap small buildings; a small six-legged robot capable of traversing rough terrain called RHex; and the RiSE robot capable of climbing vertical walls, trees and fences using feet with micro-claws.
  • (20) Peroxidase does not traverse the endothelium of intramural arteries and arterioles of controls over the 10-minute period of observation.