Queue and Compass

noun

• A line of people or vehicles waiting for something.
  • synonyms: waiting line
• Information processing. ( an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted)
• A braid of hair at the back of the head.

verb

• Form a queue, form a line, stand in line.
  • usage: "Customers lined up in front of the store"
  • synonyms: line up, queue up

• (n.) A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
• (n.) A line of persons waiting anywhere.
• (v.t.) To fasten, as hair, in a queue.

noun

• Navigational instrument for finding directions.
• (n.) ()
  • synonyms: scope, range, reach, orbit, ambit
• The limit of capability.
  • usage: "within the compass of education"
  • synonyms: range, reach, grasp
• Drafting instrument used for drawing circles.

verb

• Bring about; accomplish.
  • usage: "This writer attempts more than his talents can compass"
• Travel around, either by plane or ship.
  • usage: "We compassed the earth"
  • synonyms: circumnavigate
• Get the meaning of something.
  • usage: "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter"
  • synonyms: grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, apprehend

• (n.) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
• (n.) An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.
• (n.) Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within.
• (n.) Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination.
• (n.) A circle; a continent.
• (v.t.) To curve; to bend into a circular form.
• (v.t.) To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.
• (n.) The range of notes or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.
• (v.t.) To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.
• (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.
• (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.) An inclosed space; an area; extent.
• (v.t.) To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.
• (n.) A pair of compasses.