different between compass vs domain

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?m?p?s, IPA^(key): /?k?m.p?s/
• Rhymes: -?mp?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English compas (“a circle, circuit, limit, form, a mathematical instrument”), from Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus (“a circle, a circuit”), from Latin com- (“together”) + passus (“a pace, step, later a pass, way, route”); see pass, pace.

Noun

compass (plural compasses)

1. A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
   • 1689/1690, John Locke, On improvement of understanding

     He that [...] first discovered the use of the compass [...] did more for the propagation of knowledge [...] than those who built workhouses.

   • 1890, Wilhelm Westhofen, The Forth Bridge

     a glance at his compass would have shown him that a northerly course instead of an easterly could not be right

2. A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).
   • 1701, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, Chapter 5

     to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please

3. (music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
4. (obsolete) A space within limits; an area.
   • 1763, M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), page 47:

     In going up the Missisippi [sic], we meet with nothing remarkable before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the river takes a large compass.

   • 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator

     Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 14

     Clara thought she had never seen him look so small and mean. He was as if trying to get himself into the smallest possible compass.
5. (obsolete) An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference.
6. Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.
   • c. 1610, John Davies, Historical Tracts

     In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed.

7. (archaic) scope.
   • 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion Book 8

     the compass of his argument

   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, Oxford University Press (1973), section 8:

     There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding.

   • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

     How very commonly we hear it remarked that such and such thoughts are beyond the compass of words! I do not believe that any thought, properly so called, is out of the reach of language.

8. (obsolete) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
   • 1611, King James Version, 2 Kings iii. 9

     They fetched a compass of seven days' journey.

Synonyms

• (magnetic direction finder): magnetic compass
• (device used to draw circular curves): pair of compasses

Hyponyms

• (pair of compasses): beam compass

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English compassen (“to go around, make a circuit, draw a circle, contrive, intend”), from Old French compasser; from the noun; see compass as a noun.

Verb

compass (third-person singular simple present compasses, present participle compassing, simple past and past participle compassed)

1. To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 5 scene 1

     Now all the blessings

     Of a glad father compass thee about!

   • And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
2. To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
3. (dated) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
   • 1763, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emilius; or, an essay on education, translated by M. Nugent, page 117:

     [...] they never find ways sufficient to compass that end.

   • 1816, Catholicon: or, the Christian Philosopher, volume 3, from July to December 1816, page 56:

     [...] to settle the end of our action or disputation; and then to take fit and effectual means to compass that end.

   • 1921 November 23, The New Republic, volume 28, number 364, page 2:

     The immediate problem is how to compass that end: by the seizure of territory or by the cultivation of the goodwill of the people whose business she seeks.

4. (dated) To plot; to scheme (against someone).
   • 1600, The Arraignment and Judgement of Captain Thomas Lee, published in 1809, by R. Bagshaw, in Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials, volume 1, page 1403–04:

     That he plotted and compassed to raise Sedition and Rebellion [...]

   • 1794 November 1, Speech of Mr. Erskine in Behalf of Hardy, published in 1884, by Chauncey Allen Goodrich, in Select British Eloquence, page 719:

     But it went beyond it by the loose construction of compassing to depose the King, [...]

   • 1915, The Wireless Age, volume 2, page 580:

     The Bavarian felt a mad wave of desire for her sweep over him. What scheme wouldn't he compass to mould that girl to his wishes.

Synonyms

• (surround): encircle, environ, surround
• (go about or around entirely): cover, traverse
• (accomplish): accomplish, achieve, attain, gain, get to, reach
• (plot (against someone)): conspire, plot, scheme

Translations

Adverb

compass (comparative more compass, superlative most compass)

1. (obsolete) In a circuit; round about.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial,^[1] Penguin (2005), ?ISBN, page 9:

     Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances, […]

References

• compass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• compass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Middle English

Noun

compass

1. Alternative form of compas

English

Etymology

From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon. Doublet of demesne.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??me?n/, /d???me?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /do??me?n/, /d??me?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

domain (plural domains)

1. A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.

   The king ruled his domain harshly.
2. A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.

   Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services.

   His domain is English history.

3. A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
4. (mathematics) The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
5. (mathematics, set theory) The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
6. (mathematics) A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.

   Hyponym: integral domain

7. (mathematics, topology, mathematical analysis) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
8. (computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
   • 2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium [3]

     Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.

9. (computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
10. (computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.
11. (computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
12. (physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
13. (computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
14. (data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.

    • A characteristic of a field. A data domain specifies a data type and applies the minimum and maximum values allowed and other constraints.

15. (taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
16. (biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome

Usage notes

• (collection of information): Used in a context in which domain name services, or kindred services, are managed in a fashion that is integrated with the management of other computer and network related information.
• (collection of computers): Used in the same context as the collection of information domain sense.

Synonyms

• (geographic area): demesne
• (where a function is defined): domain of definition
• (collection of DNS names): domain name, hostname

Antonyms

• (domain of definition of a function): range
• (domain of definition of a function): codomain

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• Domain (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• domain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• domain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Amidon, Imonda, daimon, domina

Indonesian

Etymology

From English domain, from Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). Doublet of dame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?o?ma?n]
• Hyphenation: do?ma?in

Noun

domain (plural domain-domain, first-person possessive domainku, second-person possessive domainmu, third-person possessive domainnya)

1. domain

   Synonyms: daerah, ranah, wilayah

Further reading

• “domain” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Noun

domain m (plural domains)

1. (Internet) domain