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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Box the Compass Repeat in order the 32 points. (Spanish, boxar, to sail round.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Direction | Ascertain one's direction; Noun: s'orienter, see which way the wind blows; box the compass; take the air line. |
Rotation | Roll up, furl; wallow, welter; box the compass; spin like a top, spin like a teetotum. |
Tergiversation | Verb: change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from; (relinquish); waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BOX THE COMPASS |
| Specialty definitions using "BOX THE COMPASS": TO BOX THE COMPASS. (references) |
Expression using "BOX THE COMPASS": To box the compass. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "BOX THE COMPASS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszatér kiindulási pontjához (to box the compass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | combaase y raa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oxbay ethay ompasscay cuartear la aguja. (various references) завершити повне коло. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-h-m-o-o-p-s-s-t-x" | |
-3 letters: matchboxes. | |
-4 letters: besmooths, cashboxes, chassepot, cohobates, hecatombs, postboxes, soapboxes. | |
-5 letters: apothems, bathoses, besmooth, cabooses, cohobate, comatose, composes, composts, compotes, hatboxes, hecatomb, hotboxes, maestoso, matchbox, moschate, osteomas, pathoses, postbase, potashes, schmoose, scotomas, seaboots, shampoos, shoepacs, smooches, smoothes, spathose, stomachs, teashops. | |
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