different between compass vs time

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

Alternative forms

• tyme (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English t?ma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favourable time, opportunity”), from Proto-Germanic *t?mô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?im?, from Proto-Indo-European *deh?y- (“to divide”). Cognate with Scots tym, tyme (“time”), Alemannic German Zimen, Z?mmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”), Danish time (“hour, lesson”), Swedish timme (“hour”), Norwegian time (“time, hour”), Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”), Icelandic tími (“time, season”). Related with tide. Not related with Latin tempus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Canada, US) enPR: t?m, IPA^(key): /ta?m/, [t?a?m]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /t?em/
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (Tasmanian) IPA^(key): /t??m/
• Rhymes: -a?m
• Hyphenation: time
• Homophone: thyme

Noun

time (countable and uncountable, plural times)

1. (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
   • 1937, Delmore Schwartz, Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day

     Time is the fire in which we burn.

   1. (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
      • 1895, H.G. Wells, The Time Machine, ?ISBN, page 35

        So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered; I was, so to speak, attenuated — was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances!

      • 2010, Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, W. W. Norton & Company ?ISBN, page 204

        We all have a visceral understanding of what it means for the universe to have multiple space dimensions, since we live in a world in which we constantly deal with a plurality — three. But what would it mean to have multiple times? Would one align with time as we presently experience it psychologically while the other would somehow be "different"?

   2. (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
      • 2012, Robert Zwilling, Natural Sciences and Human Thought, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 80

        Eventually time would also die because no processes would continue, no light would flow.

      • 2015, Highfield, Arrow Of Time, Random House ?ISBN

        Given the connection between increasing entropy and the arrow of time, does the Big Crunch mean that time would run backwards as soon as collapse began?

   3. (physics, uncountable, reductionistic definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.

2. A duration of time.
   1. (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
      • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

        During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

   2. (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
      • 1938, Richard Hughes, In Hazard

        The shock of the water, of course, woke him, and he swam for quite a time.

   3. (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.

   4. (countable) An experience.
   5. (countable) An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
      • 63 BC, Cicero, First Oration against Catiline (translation)

        O the times, O the customs!

      • 1601, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

        The time is out of joint

   6. (uncountable, with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.

   7. (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
3. An instant of time.
   1. (uncountable) How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
   2. (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
   3. (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.

   5. (countable) An instance or occurrence.
      • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

        One more time.

   6. (Britain, in public houses) Closing time.

   7. The hour of childbirth.

      • She was within little more than one month of her time.

   8. (as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.

      It was his time.

4. (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.

5. (countable) Ratio of comparison.

6. (grammar, dated) Tense.
   • 1823, Lindley Murray, Key to the Exercises Adapted to Murray's English Grammar, Fortland, page 53f.:

     Though we have, in the notes under the thirteenth rule of the Grammar, explained in general the principles, on which the time of a verb in the infinitive mood may be ascertained, and its form determined; [...]

   • 1829, Benjamin A. Gould, Adam's Latin Grammar, Boston, page 153:

     The participles of the future time active, and perfect passive, when joined with the verb esse, were sometimes used as indeclinable; thus, [...]

7. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.

   • some few lines set unto a solemn time

Usage notes

For the number of occurrences and the ratio of comparison, once and twice are typically used instead of one time and two times. Thrice is uncommon but not obsolescent, and is still common in Indian English.

Typical collocations with time or time expressions.

• spend - To talk about the length of time of an activity.

- We spent a long time driving along the motorway.

- I've spent most of my life working here. (Time expression)

• take - To talk about the length of time of an activity.

- It took a long time to get to the front of the queue. See also - take one's time

- It only takes five minutes to get to the shop from here. (Time expression)

- How long does it take to do that? (Time expression)

• waste - see waste time

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:time.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: ten

Translations

See time/translations § Noun.

Verb

time (third-person singular simple present times, present participle timing, simple past and past participle timed)

1. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.

   I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.

2. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.

   The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.

   The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.

   • There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

3. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
   • 1861, John Greenleaf Whittier, At Port Royal

     With oar strokes timing to their song.

4. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
5. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
   • 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses

     Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.
6. To measure, as in music or harmony.

Synonyms

• (to measure time): clock
• (to choose the time for): set

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

time

1. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
2. The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
3. A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.

See also

• calendar
• temporal
• Timese

References

• time on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• Time in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Time (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• METI, emit, it me, item, mite

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *t?mô (“time”), cognate with Swedish timme, English time. From Proto-Indo-European *deh?y-, specifically Proto-Indo-European *deh?im?. The Germanic noun *t?diz (“time”) is derived from the same root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?m?/, [?t?i?m?]

Noun

time c (singular definite timen, plural indefinite timer)

1. hour
2. lesson, class

Inflection

References

• “time,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English time.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tajm?/, [?t??jm?], (imperative) IPA^(key): /taj?m/, [?t??j?m],

Verb

time (past tense timede, past participle timet)

1. to time

Inflection

References

• “time,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Etymology

From tim- +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?time/
• Rhymes: -ime

Adverb

time

1. fearfully

Latin

Verb

tim?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of time?

References

• time in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French thym.

Noun

time

1. Alternative form of tyme (“thyme”)

Etymology 2

From Old English t?ma.

Noun

time

1. Alternative form of tyme (“time”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *t?mô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?y-, specifically Proto-Indo-European *deh?im?.

Noun

time m (definite singular timen, indefinite plural timer, definite plural timene)

1. an hour
2. a lesson, class

Derived terms

References

• “time” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *t?mô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?im?, from *deh?y- (“to share, divide”). Akin to English time.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ti?m?/

Noun

time m (definite singular timen, indefinite plural timar, definite plural timane)

1. an hour
2. a lesson, class
3. an appointment

4. time, moment (mainly poetic)
   • 1945, Jakob Sande, "Da Daniel drog":

     No er timen komen, Daniel!

     Now the time has come, Daniel!

Derived terms

References

• “time” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *t?mô.

Noun

t?me m

1. time
2. hour
3. occasion

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: timme
• ? Finnish: tiima

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English team, from Middle English teme, from Old English t?am (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijan?, *tug?n?, *teuh?n?, *teuhan? (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).

Pronunciation

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t??i.me/
• Hyphenation: ti?me

Noun

time m (plural times)

1. (Brazil, chiefly sports) a team

   Synonyms: (Portugal) equipa, (Brazil) equipe

2. (Brazil, informal) sexual orientation

Scots

Noun

time (plural times)

1. time

Spanish

Verb

time

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of timar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of timar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of timar.