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English

Pronunciation


Etymology

From espace.

Noun

  1. The intervening contents of a volume.
  2. Space occupied by or intended for a person or thing.
  3. : There's not enough space for this couch in this room.
  4. An area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing.
  5. : They reserved a space for him to park his car.
  6. : Write your name in the space below.
  7. The area beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a vacuum.
  8. A gap between written characters; blank.
  9. A piece of type used to separate words.
  10. A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a set of coordinates; the number of coordinates specifying a point and the number of mutually perpendicular axis|axes along which the coordinates lie are the same, and that is the number of dimensions of the space.
  11. : We live in a space that has at least four dimensions: up-down, left-right, forward-backward, and future-past.
  12. One's personal freedom to think or be oneself.
  13. : I just need some space, man.
  14. The state of mind one is in when daydreaming.
  15. a generalized construct or set, the members of which have certain properties in common; often used in combination with the name of a particular mathematician
  16. In the Context of One of the five basic elements.


Synonyms

  • (intervening contents of a volume):
  • (space occupied by or intended for a person or thing): room
  • (area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing): place, spot
  • (area beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a vacuum): outer space
  • (gap between written characters): blank, gap, whitespace (computing)
  • (piece of type used to separate words):
  • (set of points each uniquely specified by a set of coordinates):
  • (person freedom to think or be oneself):
  • (state of mind one is in when daydreaming):
  • (generalized construct or set in mathematics):
  • (one of the five basic elements in Indian philosophy):


Derived terms

Translations

  • Arabic:
  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|prostor|m}}
  • Breton: egor
  • Chinese: 空間, 空间 (kōngjiān)
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|ruimte|f}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|espace|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Raum|m}}, {{t+|de|Platz|m}}
  • Greek: χώρος (xóros) , διάστημα (ðiástima)
  • Hebrew: נפח
  • Italian: {{t+|it|spazio|m}}
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|空間|tr=kūkan|sc=Jpan}}
  • Korean: 꽁간 (konggan)
  • Czech: {{t+|cs|místo|n}}
  • French: {{t+|fr|espace|m}}
  • Hungarian:
  • Italian: {{t+|it|spazio|m}}
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|空間|tr=kūkan|sc=Jpan}}, {{t+|ja|場所|tr=basho|sc=Jpan}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|espaço|m}}
  • French: {{t+|fr|place|f}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|posto|m}}
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|空間|tr=kūkan|sc=Jpan}}, {{t+|ja|場所|tr=basho|sc=Jpan}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|espaço|m}}, {{t+|pt|lugar|m}}
  • Bosnian: svemir , kosmos , vasiona
  • Breton: egor
  • Estonian: maailmaruum
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|espace|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Weltraum|m}}, {{t+|de|All|n}}, {{t+|de|Weltall|n}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|διάστημα|n|tr=ðiástima|sc=Grek}}
  • Hebrew: חלל
  • Hungarian: ,
  • Italian: {{t+|it|spazio|m}}
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|宇宙|tr=uchū|sc=Jpan}}
  • Lithuanian: kosmosas
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|przestrzeń|f}}
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|間隔|tr=kankaku|sc=Jpan}}
  • Czech: {{t+|cs|prostor|m}}
  • Greek: χώρος (khóros)
  • Hebrew: מרחב
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|空間|tr=kūkan|sc=Jpan}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|пространство|n|tr=prostránstvo|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Swedish: rum (mathematics), rymd (physics)
  • Turkish: uzay
  • Vietnamese: không gian
  • German: {{t+|de|Freiraum|m}}
  • Greek: χώρος (khóros)
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|空白|tr=kūhaku|sc=Jpan}}
  • Danish: {{t-|da|rum|n}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|rum|n}}

Verb

  1. To be separated to a distance.
  2. :: The cities are evenly spaced.
  3. To eject into outer space.
  4. :: The captain spaced the traitors.


Translations

Anagrams


Category:1000 English basic words

ang:space ar:space et:space fa:space fr:space fy:space ko:space io:space id:space it:space kk:space ku:space lo:space lt:space hu:space nl:space ja:space pl:space pt:space ru:space simple:space fi:space sv:space ta:space te:space vi:space tr:space zh:space

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Space \Space\ (sp[=a]s), n. [OE. space, F. espace, from L.
spatium space; cf. Gr. spa^n to draw, to tear; perh. akin to
E. span. Cf. Expatiate.]
1. Extension, considered independently of anything which it
may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable
and possible.
[1913 Webster]

Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor
motion. --Locke.
[1913 Webster]

2. Place, having more or less extension; room.
[1913 Webster]

They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare;
Long had he no space to dwell [in]. --R. of
Brunne.
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While I have time and space. --Chaucer.
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3. 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.
[1913 Webster]

Put a space betwixt drove and drove. --Gen. xxxii.
16.
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4. Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time;
duration; time. "Grace God gave him here, this land to
keep long space." --R. of brunne.
[1913 Webster]

Nine times the space that measures day and night.
--Milton.
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God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a
people a longer space of repentance. --Tillotson.
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5. A short time; a while. [R.] "To stay your deadly strife a
space." --Spenser.
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6. Walk; track; path; course. [Obs.]
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This ilke [same] monk let old things pace,
And held after the new world the space. --Chaucer.
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7. (Print.)
(a) 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.
(b) The distance or interval between words or letters in
the lines, or between lines, as in books, on a
computer screen, etc.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the
compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from
each other in the same line.
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8. (Mus.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the
lines of the staff.
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9. that portion of the universe outside the earth or its
atmosphere; -- called also outer space.
[PJC]

Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under
Absolute, Euclidian, etc.

deep space, the part of outer space which is beyond the
limits of the solar system.

Space line (Print.), a thin piece of metal used by printers
to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each
other, and for other purposes; a lead. --Hansard.

Space rule (Print.), a fine, thin, short metal rule of the
same height as the type, used in printing short lines in
tabular matter.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Space \Space\, v. i. [Cf. OF. espacier, L. spatiari. See
Space, n.]
To walk; to rove; to roam. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

And loved in forests wild to space. --Spenser.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Space \Space\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spaced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Spacong.] [Cf. F. espacer. See Space, n.] (Print.)
To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space
words, lines, or letters.
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WordNet space
n 1: the unlimited expanse in which everything is located; "they
tested his ability to locate objects in space"
2: 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"
3: an area reserved for some particular purpose; "the
laboratory's floor space"
4: a blank character used to separate successive words in
writing or printing; "he said the space is the most
important character in the alphabet" [syn: blank]
5: the interval between two times; "the distance from birth to
death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes" [syn:
distance]
6: a blank area; "write your name in the space provided" [syn:
blank space, place]
7: one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a
musical staff; "the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E"
8: (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for
spacing between words [syn: quad]
v : place at intervals; "Space the interviews so that you have
some time between the different candidates"
Moby Dictionary
3-D , CAT , accommodation , aerospace , aerosphere , aesthetic distance ,
air hole , air pocket , airspace , alien , align , allocate , allot ,
amount , ample scope , amplitude , aperture , apportion , area , arrange ,
array , astronomical unit , bar , bar line , belt , berth , bit , blank ,
blank check , brace , breadth , break , broaching , bump , burden ,
caesura , caliber , capacity , carte blanche , cavity , ceiling ,
celestial spaces , chaos , chasm , check , chronology , clearance ,
clearing , cleft , collocate , compass , compose , confines , content ,
continental shelf , continuity , cordage , corridor , cosmic space ,
country , crack , crosswind , cubic , cut , day , deal , deal out ,
deep space , degree , department , depths of space , dimensional ,
disclosure , discontinuity , dispart , dispose , distance ,
distance between , distribute , district , divergence , division ,
double space , duration , duree , elbowroom , em , em quad , em space ,
empty space , en , en quad , en space , environs , ether space , expanse ,
expansion , extent , exterrestrial , extramundane , extrasolar ,
extraterrene , extraterrestrial , farness , fateful moment ,
favorable wind , fenestra , field , fistula , five-em space , fix , flat ,
fog , fontanel , foramen , four-em space , fourth-dimensional ,
free course , free hand , free play , free scope , freeboard , front ,
full scope , full swing , gap , gape , gat , grade , ground , gulf ,
hair space , half space , head wind , heartland , height , hiatus ,
high-pressure area , hinterland , hole , hollow , hour , infinity ,
inlet , instant , interim , intermediate space , intermission ,
interruption , interspace , interstellar space , interstice , interval ,
ionosphere , jetstream , jump , juncture , justification space ,
justifying space , kairos , keep apart , lacuna , land , lapse ,
lastingness , latitude , lay out , laying open , leak , leap ,
ledger line , leeway , length , level , light-year , light-years , limit ,
line , line up , long rope , low-pressure area , make a space ,
maneuvering space , margin , mark , marshal , measure , measure out ,
metagalactic space , mileage , milieu , minute , moment ,
moment of truth , neighborhood , no holds barred , notch , nuance ,
ocean of emptiness , offshore rights , open space , opening ,
opening up , order , organize , orifice , otherworldly , outer space ,
outlet , overcast , parcel out , parsec , parsecs , part , parts , pas ,
passageway , patent space , pause , peg , period , perspective , piece ,
pitch , place , plane , plateau , play , pocket , point , pore , poundage ,
precincts , pregnant moment , premises , pressureless space ,
proportion , proportional , psychological moment , psychological time ,
purlieus , quad , quadrat , quantity , quarter , rally , range , rank ,
ratio , reach , regiment , region , remoteness , remove , room , rope ,
roughness , round , rung , salient , scale , scope , sea room , season ,
seat , section , separate , separation , set apart , set at intervals ,
set out , shade , shadow , single space , slot , slug , soil , soup ,
space between , space out , space-time , spaceband , spaciousness ,
span , spatial , spatiotemporal , spell , spherical , split , spread ,
staff , stage , stair , standard , stave , step , stereoscopic , stint ,
stoma , stowage , stratosphere , stretch , stride , substratosphere ,
superficial , surface , swing , tail wind , tense , term , terrain ,
territory , the future , the past , the present , the void ,
the void above , thick space , thin space , three-dimensional ,
three-mile limit , throwing open , tide , time , time interval ,
time lag , timebinding , tolerance , tonnage , transcendental ,
transmundane , tread , tropopause , troposphere , trough , turbulence ,
twelve-mile limit , two-dimensional , uncorking , unstopping ,
vicinage , vicinity , visibility , visibility zero , volume ,
volumetric , wait , way , ways , whet , while , wide berth , yawn , zone


FOLDOC space

The space character, ASCII 32.

See octal forty.


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