Space
[speɪs] or [spes]
Definition
(noun.) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located; 'they tested his ability to locate objects in space'; 'the boundless regions of the infinite'.
(noun.) a blank area; 'write your name in the space provided'.
(noun.) a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; 'he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet'.
(noun.) one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff; 'the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E'.
(noun.) an area reserved for some particular purpose; 'the laboratory's floor space'.
(noun.) an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things); 'the architect left space in front of the building'; 'they stopped at an open space in the jungle'; 'the space between his teeth'.
(verb.) place at intervals; 'Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates'.
Inputed by Lawrence--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.
(n.) Place, having more or less extension; room.
(n.) A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.
(n.) Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time.
(n.) A short time; a while.
(n.) Walk; track; path; course.
(n.) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters.
(n.) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books.
(n.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.
(n.) To walk; to rove; to roam.
(n.) To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.
Checked by Leda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Extension, extent.[2]. Capacity, room.[3]. Distance, interval.[4]. [Rare.] While, short time.
Editor: Priscilla
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Extension, room, interval, boundlessness, immeasurableness, illimitableness,distance, measure, quantity, intervenience, interspace
ANT:Limitation, inextension, restriction, coarctation, confinement, proximity,scantiness, contiguity, uninterruptedness, continuity
Edited by Edith
Definition
n. extension as distinct from material substances: room: largeness: distance between objects: interval between lines or words in books: quantity of time: distance between two points of time: opportunity leisure: a short time: interval.—v.t. to make or arrange intervals between.—ns. Spā′cer one who or that which spaces: an instrument by which to reverse a telegraphic current esp. in a marine cable for increasing the speed of transmission: a space-bar; Space′-writ′er in journalism one paid for his articles according to the space they occupy when printed; Spā′cing the act of dividing into spaces placing at suitable intervals as in printing &c.: the space thus made: spaces collectively.—adj. Spā′cious having large space: large in extent: roomy: wide.—adv. Spā′ciously.—n. Spā′ciousness.
Edited by Caleb
Examples
- We drove slowly in this matting-covered tunnel and came out onto a bare cleared space where the railway station had been. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Two methods of space telegraphy at sea. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The opening for putting in the ice, shown just under the pulley in the cut, has two doors with a space between; each door a foot thick. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Asking the operator the best direction, he pointed west, and noticing a rabbit in a clear space in the sage bushes, I said, 'There is one now. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The entire community surrounded us, leaving a clear space about one hundred feet in diameter for our battle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Behold the baits with which he fishes for souls, giving a poor space of earthly life in exchange for eternal happiness hereafter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- As there was no limit to the distance that electricity would travel there seemed no reason why these dots and dashes, or sparks and spaces, should not be sent all around the world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The Morse telegraphic code, consisting of dots, dashes, and spaces, is given in Figure 218. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There were long spaces of silence between their words. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The same has been found to hold good when one variety and several mixed varieties of wheat have been sown on equal spaces of ground. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The opportunities for study which the Commissioners had must have made these empty spaces evident. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Open heat spaces were left between the two flues. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Another important plant of this period deserves special mention, as it was the pioneer in the lighting of large spaces by incandescent lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If, however, the tube is held, during the rotation of the disk, over the inner row of unequally spaced holes, the musical tone disappears, and a series of noises take its place. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I looked back and saw the three cars all climbing, spaced by the interval of their dust. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There were volumes of innuendo in the way the eventually was spaced, and each syllable given its due stress. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The printed work is in full view, the line spacing may be varied to any fractional adjustment, and the action is quite free from noise. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It had a weight for running the frame, letter and line spacing keys, paper feeding devices, line signal bell, and carbon tissue. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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