Compass and Time

Compass

Compass noun - A guiding or motivating purpose or principle.

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Time and compass are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Time" instead a noun "Compass".

Nearby Words: compassion, compassed, compassing

Time noun - A particular point at which an event takes place.

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Compass and time are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Compass" instead a noun "Time".

Nearby Words: timed, timely, timing, timeout, timeliness

best	best compass	best time
better	better compass	better time
normal	normal compass	normal time
small	small compass	small time
Other adjectives: actual, real, wrong, different.

Yuri Mihairokoh from Planetes for a short time carried a compass from his wife, in fact retriving said compass was the whole reason he came to the debris team in the first place.

Source: Tragic Keepsake
The Stoneship age has a similar problem with the doors to the compass room being too dark to see, but this time, there's no map.

Source: Video Game / Myst
While the Red Ryder didn't have "the compass in the stock and the thing that tells time", another model in the product line, the "Buck Jones", did have both a sundial and a compass in the stock.

Source: Aluminum Christmas Trees

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