The word 'compass' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word 'compass' when talking about a device for finding directions or a similar kind of navigational tool. For example, you might say, "We need a compass to navigate our way through the forest."
It's a tough hike and you need a map and compass but the rewards are stunning: views across shimmering waters to the isles of Rhum, Eigg and Skye, where the entire Cuillin ridge stands tall.
First, the future of leadership challenge will seek to accelerate a new kind of inclusive leadership underpinned by a moral compass of being fair, honest, positive and creative.
People have been telling Labour they'd lost their moral compass and they didn't listen".
It is hardly surprising that, for some of us at least, our political compass currently feels confused.
The main reason Mercator's projection became so popular was because of its navigational usefulness; in his map, straight lines represent lines of constant compass bearing.
It is as if when we left Italy, my internal compass – but not that of my parents – simply couldn't stop pointing north.
"The planning, the precision of the pilots who with just a stopwatch and a compass landed gliders in the dark within 47 yards of the bridge is astonishing, even today.
But he's like John Donne's compass: he always circles back to home.
The Dutch should have won really – the final rider, the individual silver medallist Gerco Schröder, just had to ride a clear round to nail it, something that was well within his compass.
Using just a stopwatch and a compass, the pilots had to land precisely and silently to surprise the German occupiers.
Kenan Malik's most recent book is The Quest for a Moral Compass.
