space Noun
(lb) Of time.
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#*1616 , (William Shakespeare), (w, All's Well that Ends Well)
#*:Come on, thou are granted space .
#*1793 , , "The Royal Message", Poems
#*:In two days hence / The judge of life and death ascends his seat. / —This will afford him space to reach the camp.
#A specific (specified) period of time.
#*1893 , (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, (The Guardian) , 20 October:
#*:The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so.
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, title= Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers
, passage=But their lead lasted just 10 minutes before Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe both headed home in the space of two minutes to wrestle back control.}}
#An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a .
#*1923 , (PG Wodehouse), (The Inimitable Jeeves)
#*:Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.
(lb) Unlimited or generalized physical extent.
#Distance between things.
#*c.1607 , (William Shakespeare), (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, (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 for or to do something).
#*1601 , (William Shakespeare), (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, (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.
#*1656 , (Thomas Hobbes), Elements of Philosophy , II
#*:Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.
#*1880 , (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, (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.
#*1901 , (HG Wells), (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 , (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.
#*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 ."
(lb) A bounded or specific physical extent.
#A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries.
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#*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. 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, (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.
#(lb) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.
#*1849 , (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.
#*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.
#(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 ).
#*1683 , (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 thru?ts the end of his ''Bodkin'' between every ''Letter'' of that Word, till he comes to a ''Space''''': and then perhaps by forcing tho?e ''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''''' ?tand ''Loo?e'' 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 ?ide of the '''''Space'' keep their parallel di?tance; for by its Spring it thru?ts the ''Letters'' that were clo?ed with the end of the ''Bodkin'' to their adjunct ''Letters , that needed no clo?ing.
#*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.
#*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.
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#(lb) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
# A marketplace for goods or services.
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Quotations
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Synonyms
* (intervening contents of a volume) volume
* (space occupied by or intended for a person or thing) room, volume
* (area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing) place, spot, volume
* (area beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a vacuum) outer space
* (gap between written characters) blank, gap, whitespace (graphic design)
* (metal type) quad, quadrat
* (set of points each uniquely specified by a set of coordinates)
* (personal 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) ether
Derived terms
* address space
* aerospace
* affine space
* airspace, air space
* backspace
* Baire space
* Banach space
* base space
* breathing space
* chemical space
* column space
* compact space
* conjugate space
* connected space
* crawl space, crawlspace
* cyberspace
* danger space
* dark space
* dead-air space
* dead space
* deep space
* double-space
* drift space
* dual space
* Einstein space
* em space,
* en space
* Euclidean space
* exceptional space
* exotic four-space
* fishing space
* flat space
* floorspace, floor space
* Foch space
* Fourier space
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* free space
* function space
* G space
* hair space
* half space
* Hausdorff space
* headspace
* Hilbert space
* homeomorphic space
* homogeneous space
* hydrospace
* hyperbolic space
* hyperspace
* image space
* inertial space
* inner product space
* interaction space
* interplanetary space
* interspace
* interstellar space
* intervillous space
* isometric space
* joint space
* justifying space
* lacunary space
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* loading space
* measurable space
* metacompact space
* metric space
* metrizable space
* Minkowski space
* Moore space
* multispace
* mutton space
* namespace
* n space
* n-dimensional space
* normal space
* normed linear space
* null space
* nut space
* object space
* open half space
* orbit space
* orthogonal space
* outer space
* paracompact space
* Pauli spin space
* Peano space
* perfectly separable space
* perivitelline space
* phase space
* Polish space
* popliteal space
* pore space
* probability space
* problem space
* projective space
* pseudospace
* quotient space
* reflexive Banach space
* regular space
* regular topological space
* Riemann space
* sample space
* separable space
* sequentially compact space
* shrinking space
* single-space
* space age, Space Age
* space alien
* space attenuation
* space bar
* space biology
* space blanket
* spaceborne
* space cadet
* space capsule
* space centrode
* space charge
* space cloth
* space communication
* space cone
* space coordinate
* spacecraft
* space current
* space curve
* space defence, space defense
* space environment
* space factor
* spacefaring
* space fixed reference
* space flight
* space frame
* spaceful
* space group
* space guidance
* space heater
* space hopper
* space junk
* space lattice
* spaceless
* spacelike
* (l)
* spaceman
* space medicine
* space mission
* space motion
* space navigation
* space opera
* space out
* space perception
* space permeability
* space polar coordinate
* spaceport
* space power system
* space probe
* space processing
* space quadrature
* space quantization
* spacer
* space race
* space reconnaissance
* space reddening
* space request
* space research
* space satellite
* space science
* spaceship
* space shuttle
* space sickness
* space simulator
* space station
* space suit
* space suppression
* space technology
* space tourism
* space velocity
* space walk
* spaceward
* space wave
* space weapon
* space weather
* space writer
* space-time
* spacey
* spin space
* state space
* strictly convex space
* subarachnoid space
* subspace
* sunspace
* symmetric space
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* tangent space
* tensor space
* thick space
* thin space
* three-space
* topological space
* total space
* triangulable space
* Tychonoff space
* uniform space
* unitary space
* vector space
* watch this space
* wave-vector space
* weakly complete space
* white space, whitespace
* workspace
Verb
( spac)
(obsolete) 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 .
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 .
To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.
:: The captain spaced the traitors.
Derived terms
* spaced
* spaced-out
Related terms
* espace
* spacious
* spatial
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galaxy English
Noun
( galaxies)
* 1633 , John Donne, "Sapho to Philænis":
- So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].
(galaxy) Any of the collections of many millions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe.
Synonyms
* (astronomy) G (abbreviation)
Derived terms
* active galaxy
* dwarf galaxy
* elliptical galaxy
* extragalactic
* galactic
* galaxy cluster / cluster of galaxies
* galaxy filament / filament of galaxies
* galaxy nucleus
* galaxy sheet / sheet of galaxies
* galaxy wall / wall of galaxies
* irregular galaxy
* lenticular galaxy
* spiral galaxy
* whirlpool galaxy
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