6. Compass or compasses, or a pair of compasses, so named from its legs, but pair is superfluous or improper, and the singular number compass is the preferable name, an instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, &c., consisting of two pointed legs or branches, made of iron, steel or brass, joined at the top by a rivet, on which they move.
Genre Definition. Genre means the type of art, literature or music characterized by a specific form, content and style. For example, literature has four main genres; poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. All of these genres have particular features and functions that distinguish them from one another.
the overall structure or shape of a work that frequently follows an established design. May refer to a literary type, or to patterns of meter, line and rhymes. literally, kind or type. in literary and dramatic studies, genre refers to the main types of literary form, principally tragedy and comedy. The term can also refer to forms that are specific to given historical era, such as the revenge tragedy, or to more specific subgenres of tragedy and comedy, such as the comedy of manners. gesture.