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Etymology
From Template:inh, from Template:etyl Template:m, variant of Template:m, Template:m et al., and Template:etyl Template:m, variant of Template:m, from Template:etyl Template:m, from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- 'to stretch, to pull'.
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Noun
- Template:lb Of time.
- Template:lb Free time; leisure, opportunity. Template:defdate
- A specific (specified) period of time. Template:defdate
- 1893, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman]] }}, Giles Corey
- I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.
- 2007, Andy Bull, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|The Guardian]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|The Guardian]] }}, 20 October:
- The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so.
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- An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while. Template:defdate
- 1923, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|PG Wodehouse]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|PG Wodehouse]] }}, {{#if: | [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|The Inimitable Jeeves]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|The Inimitable Jeeves]] }}
- Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.
- Template:lb Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
- Distance between things. Template:defdate
- c.1607, {{#if:
- Distance between things. Template:defdate
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|William Shakespeare]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|William Shakespeare]] }}, {{#if: | [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|Antony and Cleopatra]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|Antony and Cleopatra]] }}:
- But neere him, thy Angell / Becomes a feare: as being o're-powr'd, therefore / Make space enough betweene you.
- 2001, Sam Wollaston, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|The Guardian]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|The Guardian]] }}, 3 November:
- Which means that for every car there was 10 years ago, there are now 40. Which means - and this is my own, not totally scientific, calculation - that the space between cars on the roads in 1991 was roughly 39 car lengths, because today there is no space at all.
- Physical extent across two or three dimensions; area, volume (sometimes Template:m or to do something). Template:defdate
- 1601, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|William Shakespeare]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|William Shakespeare]] }}, {{#if: | [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|Hamlet]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|Hamlet]] }}, First Folio 1623
- O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and / count my selfe a King of infinite space; were it not that / I haue bad dreames.
- 2007, Dominic Bradbury, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|The Guardian]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|The Guardian]] }}, 12 May:
- They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working.
- Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this. Template:defdate
- 1656, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|Thomas Hobbes]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|Thomas Hobbes]] }}, Elements of Philosophy, II
- Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.
- 1880, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|Popular Science]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|Popular Science]] }}, August:
- These are not questions which can be decided by reference to our space intuitions, for our intuitions are confined to Euclidean space, and even there are insufficient, approximative.
- 2007, Anushka Asthana & David Smith, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|The Observer]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|The Observer]] }}, 15 April:
- The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of Nasa's most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday 'to a precision of better than 1 per cent' the assertion Einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the Earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time.
- The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. Template:defdate
- the first man in space — {{{3}}}
- 1901, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|HG Wells]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|HG Wells]] }}, {{#if: | [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|The First Men in the Moon]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|The First Men in the Moon]] }}:
- After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition.
- 2010, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|The Guardian]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|The Guardian]] }}, 9 August:
- The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or it will become extinct, Stephen Hawking warned today.
- The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom. Template:defdate
- 1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only:
- Around the time of my parents' divorce, I learned that reading could also give me space.
- 2008, Jimmy Treigle, Walking on Water
- "I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not; but right now I need my space."
- 1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only:
- Template:lb A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. Template:defdate
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- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,Template:nb.... Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- 2000, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender
- The street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard.
- 2012, Charlotte Higgins, {{#if:
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- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. Template:defdate
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|The Guardian]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|The Guardian]] }}, 16 July:
- Converted from vast chambers beneath the old Bankside Power Station which once held a million gallons of oil, the new public areas consist of two large circular spaces for performances and film installations, plus a warren of smaller rooms.
- Template:lb A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines. Template:defdate
- 1849, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|John Pyke Hullah]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|John Pyke Hullah]] }}, translating Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing
- The note next above Sol is La; La, therefore, stands in the 2nd space; Si, on the 3rd line, &c.
- 1990, Sammy Nzioki, Music Time
- The lines and spaces of the staff are named according to the first seven letters of the alphabet, that is, A B C D E F G.
- A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap. Template:defdate
- 1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation
- According to experts, a single line of text should rarely exceed about 50 characters (including letters and all the spaces between words).
- 2005, Dr BR Kishore, Dynamic Business Letter Writing:
- It should be typed a space below the salutation : Dear Sir, Subject : Replacement of defective items.
- 1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation
- Template:lb A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad). Template:defdate
- 1683, {{#if:
| [[w:Template:code interwiki:Script error: No such module "str".|Joseph Moxon]]{{#if: | , {{{3}}} }}{{#if: | (« {{{4}}} ») }} | [[w:Script error: No such module "str".|Joseph Moxon]] }}, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., v.2, pp.240–1:
- If it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thruſts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing thoſe Letters closer, he may have room to put in another Space or a Thin Space; which if he cannot do, and he finds the Space ſtand Looſe in the Form; he with the Point of his Bodkin picks the Space up and bows it a little; which bowing makes the Letters on each ſide of the Space keep their parallel diſtance; for by its Spring it thruſts the Letters that were cloſed with the end of the Bodkin to their adjunct Letters, that needed no cloſing.
- 1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, p.110:
- Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.
- 2005, Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd ed., p.91:
- Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.
- A gap; an empty place. Template:defdate
- 2004, Harry M Benshoff (ed.), Queer Cinéma
- Mainstream Hollywood would not cater to the taste for sexual sensation, which left a space for B-movies, including noir.
- 2009, Barbara L. Lev, From Pink to Green
- A horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be.
- 2004, Harry M Benshoff (ed.), Queer Cinéma
- Template:lb A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
- Template:lb A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space). Template:defdate
- Functional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory. — {{{3}}}
- Template:lb A marketplace for goods or services.
- innovation in the browser space — {{{3}}}
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Verb
- Template:lb To roam, walk, wander.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- But she as Fayes are wont, in priuie place / Did spend her dayes, and lov'd in forests wyld to space.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- Template:lb To set some distance apart.
- Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.
- The cities are evenly spaced.
- To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
- This paragraph seems badly spaced.
- Template:lb To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.
- The captain spaced the traitors.
- Template:lb To travel into and through outer space.
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