Heaven vs Space - What's the difference?

As a proper noun heaven

is (religion) the abode of god or the gods, when considered as a specific location; the abode of the blessed departed who reside in the presence of god or the gods.

As a noun space is

(lb) of time .

As a verb space is

(obsolete|intransitive) to roam, walk, wander.

heaven

English

Noun

(wikipedia heaven) (en noun)

The sky, specifically :

# (dated, now usually plural) The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres.

#* 1535 , (Coverdale Bible), (Ecclesiastes) III 1:

All that is vnder the heauen .

#* 1585 , Thomas Washington translating Nicholas de Nicolay, The nauigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie by Nicholas Nicholay , I vi 4:

The ordinaunce]]...made such a great noyse and [[thundering, thunderyng that it seemed the heaven would have fallen.

#* 1594 , Thomas Blundeville, M. Blundeuile his Exercises , I iii 136:

In ascending orderly vpwardes]]...The first is the Spheare of the Moone...The seuenth the Spheare of Saturne, The eight the Spheare of the fixed Starres, commonly called the firmament. The ninth is called the second moueable or Christall heauen', The tenth is called the first moueable, and the eleuenth is called the [[empyreal, Emperiall ' heauen , where God and his Angels are said to dwell.

#* (William Shakespeare), (The Comedie of Errors) , I i 66:

What obscured light the heauens did grant.

#*1625 , Nathanæl Carpenter, Geography delineated forth in two bookes , I iv 77:

The Heauens ...are carried in 24 houres from East to West.

#* 1656 , Thomas Stanley, The History of Philosophy , II v 74:

Stars and constellations; some fixed for the Ornament of Heaven

#* 1930 March, Nature , 179 2:

The moon's path lies in that belt of the heavens known as the zodiac.

#* 1981 , E.R. Harrison, Cosmology , XII 250:

In an infinite...universe the stars would collectively outshine the Sun and flood the heavens with light far more intense than is observed.

#*2006 , Peter Carroll translating a maxim of the Southern Song dynasty in Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895–1937 :

Above is Heaven , Below are Suzhou and Hangzhou

# (obsolete) The near sky in which weather, flying animals, appear; (obsolete) the atmosphere; the climate.

#* (w, Wycliffe's Bible), Job XXXV 11:

The bestis]] of the erthe...the [[fowls, foulis of heuene

#* 1581 , George Pettie translating Stefano Guazzo, Ciuile Conuersation , I 26:

Everie]]...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven , and the influence of the starres hath certaine [[virtues, vertues.

#* (William Shakespeare), (The comicall Historie of the Merchant of Venice) , IV i:

The qualitie]] of mercie is not ,
it droppeth as the gentle raine from heauen
[[upon, vpon the place beneath

#* 1660 , George Mackenzie, Religio Stoici , II 44:

Fellow-believers...fed the birds of heaven with the carcases of pious and reverend Church-men.

# (obsolete) A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery.

#* 1600 , Thomas Nashe, Summers Last Will :

Euery man cannot, with Archimedes, make a heauen of brasse.

(religion) The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:

# (Christianity, usually capitalized) The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence.

#* 1560 , (Geneva Bible), XII 7–8:

And there was a battel]] in heauen'. Michael & his Angels foght the dragon, and the dragon foght & his Angels. But they preuailed not, nether was their place founde [[any, anie more in ' heauen .

#* 1644 , (Samuel Rutherford), : The Law and the Prince , V 16:

Con?ider fir?t that the Ordinance ?ent from Heaven by the mini?tery of Angels and Prophets, there were but ?ome few ?uch, as Mo?es, Saul, David, [[etc.

#* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , I 263:

Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n .

#* 1906 July 30, Washington Post , 12 4:

Christ's coming from the heavens has entered into the life of humanity as the Founder of the world to come.

# (religion, by extension, often capitalized) The abode of the Abrahamic God; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus.

#* , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The House of Fame) , 164:

Venus...Doun]] [[from, fro the heven gan descende.

#* (w, Wycliffe's Bible), VII 18:

Thei]] make sweete cakis to the [[queen, quen of heuene [Astarte ]

#* 1594 , (William Shakespeare), (Titus Andronicus) , IV iii 41:

With Ioue in heauen , or some where else.

#* 1649 , Alexander Ross translating the Sieur Du Ryer, The , Translated out of the Arabique into French... newly Englished , 406:

As he [Muhammad ] was returning, in the fourth Heaven , Moses advised him to goe back to God.

#* 1832 , Charles Coleman, The Mythology of the Hindus , XIII 220:

Like the Buddhas, they [the Jains ] believe that there is a plurality of heavens and hells.

#* 1841 , Mountstuart Elphinstone, The History of India , I ii iv 169:

The heaven of Siva is in the midst of the eternal snows and glaciers of Keilás, one of the highest and deepest groups of the stupendous summits of Hémaláya.

#* 2011 , Lillian Tseng, Picturing Heaven in Early China , 2:

To grasp the Chinese's notion of Heaven , we must look at the contexts in which tian'' is used... In the ''Book of Odes'' (''Shi jing'' ), which includes poems dated between the eleventh and seventh centuries BCE, ''tian is a place where the Heavenly Thearch resides.

# (by extension, usually capitalized) Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate.

#* , III iv:

...he cannot thriue]],
Vnlesse her prayers, whom heauen delights to heare
And loues to grant, repreeue him from the wrath
Of greatest [[justice, Iustice.

#* 1611 , (King James Bible), iv 26:

After that thou shalt haue]] [[known, knowen that the heauens doe rule.

#* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , I 212:

...The will
And high permission of all-ruling Heaven .

#* 1793 , Henry Boyd, Poems , II iv 270:

Heaven commands thine arm
To lift the sure-destroying sword!

#* 1886 May 8, The Pall Mall Gazette , 1 1:

...executing the just judgment of offended Heaven upon cattle-houghers, traitors, and assassins.

#* 1992 , W.S. Wilson translating E. Yoshikawa, Taiko , II 186:

There's nothing we can do but pray to heaven for good luck.

#* 2011 , Lillian Tseng, Picturing Heaven in Early China , 3:

Cosmologists regarded Heaven as a force—composed of qi'' aspects—that kept the cosmos moving.

(religion) The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare (m)); specifically:

# (Christianity, Islam) The afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death.

#* 1544 , Richard Tracy, A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge henry the eyght Kynge of England of Fraunce and of Irelande , C:

Teache]] the people to gett heuen with [[fasting, fastynge.

#* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (The tragedie of King Richard the second)'', I i 41 43:

...what I speake
My body shall make good vpon]] this earth,
Or my [[divine, diuine soule answer it in heauen .

#* 1611 , (King James Bible), IV 14:

Wee]] [[have, haue a great high Priest, that is passed into the heauens .

# (religion, by extension, often capitalized) The afterlife of the blessed dead in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium.

#* 2011 , Lillian Tseng, Picturing Heaven in Early China , 3:

The belief in ascending to Heaven after death became widespread in the Han dynasty.

# (by extension) Any paradise; any blissful place or experience.

#* (William Langland), (Piers Plowman) , B x 300:

If heuene be on þis]] erthe...It is in cloistere or in [[school, scole.

#* 1600 , (William Shakespeare), (A Midsommer Nights Dreame) , II i 243:

Ile follow thee and make a heauen of hell.

#* 1660 November 14, a speech in the House of Commons in W. Cobbett, Parl. Hist. (1808), IV 145:

England, that was formerly the heaven , would be now the hell for women.

#* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , I 254–255:

The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n' of Hell, a Hell of ' Heav'n .

#* 1782 , F. Burney, Cecilia , I iii iv 51:

Such a shop as that...would be quite a heaven upon earth to me.

#* 1940 , , (Babes in Darkling Wood) , II iii 198:

They thought strikes and hunger marches the quintessence of politics and Soviet Russia heaven on earth.

# (by extension) A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy.

#* (Geoffrey Chaucer), (Troilus and Criseyde) , II l 826:

It an heuene was hire]] voys to [[hear, here.

#* 1550 , J. Heywood, Dialogue Prov. Eng. Tongue, II vii:

Husbandes]] are in heauen ...whose [[wives, wiues scold not.

#* 1809 October 26, (William Wordsworth), Friend , 163:

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven !

# (informal, with a modifier) Similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects.

#* 1867 , J.W. De Forest, Miss Ravenel's Conversion , XXVI 368:

Perhaps it has gone to the dog heaven , and is wagging somewhere in glory.

#* 1879 February, J. H. Payne, Scribner's Monthly , 470 2:

His pet name for Easthampton is ‘Goose-heaven ’, and he harps upon the idea eternally.

#* 1908 October 5, Chicago Tribune , 3 1:

One gray beard who found the gates closed shinned up the fifteen foot fence...and dropped into the baseball heaven he was seeking.

#* 1972 , M. Sanders, Flash :

The Dave Clark 5 deserve a place in Rock & Roll Heaven right along there beside Question Mark & The Mysterians, the Standells, Count Five, the Troggs, and the Music Machine.

#* 1986 February 3, Newsweek , 70:

The building was once a candy factory, which makes it, Frazier says, mouse heaven .

#* 2003 August 1, Church Times , 28 3:

Ricky bumps it into the garden, and tells me it is going to ‘the cooker heaven ’. ‘Where it will be this size,’ adds his wife, her hands making the size of a brick. She means that it is off to the squasher.

#* 2004 July 17, Western Mail (Cardiff) , 15:

Goronwy has gone to goldfish heaven where he is swimming in a beautiful clear blue ocean with all the other fishies.

Usage notes

Frequently capitalized as '(m)' in all senses when regarded as a proper name. When used as a synonym for the impersonal sky, the word has typically been plural ("(m)" or "(m)") since the 17th century, except in poetry.

Synonyms

* (sky) firmament, sky; welkin (obsolete) * (paradise) paradise * (entrance to heaven) pearly gates * (blissful place or experience) delight, dream, paradise

Antonyms

* (paradise) hell * (blissful place or experience) horror, nightmare

Derived terms

* as high as heaven * before heaven * by heaven * cat heaven, kitty heaven * cope of heaven * dog heaven, doggy heaven * eye of heaven * for heaven's sake * good heavens! * great heavens! * Heaven-abandoned * Heaven and earth * heaven-bound * heaven-bow * heaven-bridge * heaven-burster * heaven forbid, heaven forfend * heaven god * heaven-high * heavenise, heavenize * Heaven knows * heavenly * heaven of heaven, heaven of heavens * heaven on earth * heavens, Heavens above! * heaven-sent * Heavens to Betsy, Heavens to Murgatroid! * heaven-tree, heaven-plant * heavenwards * heaven-wide * heaven worshippers * hog heaven * in heaven's name * Kingdom of Heaven * made in heaven * Mandate of Heaven * manna from heaven * merciful heavens * move heaven and earth * pennies from heaven * seventh heaven * stink to high heaven * thank heaven * the heavens * the heavens open * though the heavens fall * under heaven * vault of heaven (der bottom)

Verb

(en-verb)Oxford English Dictionary . "Heaven, v."
(obsolete) To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.

*1614 , Thomas Adams, The divells banket described in sixe sermons , II 81:

*:He heauens himselfe on earth, & for a litle pelfe cousens himselfe of blisse.

(obsolete) To beatify, enchant, or please greatly.

*1924 April 13, Observer , 12 4:

They ['s Tales ]...enraptured the public and heavened Murray.

(obsolete) To beautify, to make into a paradise.

Statistics

Anagrams

References

1000 English basic words

space
English
(wikipedia space)
Noun

(lb) Of time.

#

#*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.

#*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 29, author=Jon Smith, work=BBC Sport
, 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.

#*

#*: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.

#

#:

#(lb) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.

# A marketplace for goods or services.

#:

Quotations
*
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 * * 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 * * 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 * * * * * 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
See also
(punctuation)
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
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----