Space vs World - What's the difference?
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(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.
#*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 29, author=Jon Smith, work=BBC Sport
, title= #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,
#*: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 ,
#*: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.,
#*: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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(obsolete) To roam, walk, wander.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
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.
Human collective existence; existence in general.
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, passage=The world' was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the ' world , and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed. As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The Universe.
The Earth.
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, title= (lb) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
* 2007 September 27, Marc Rayman (interviewee), “
An individual or group perspective or social setting.
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, title= (lb) A great amount.
To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.
* 1996 , Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics , pages ix-x:
* 2005 , James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry , published by Stanford University Press, ISBN-13 978-0804750714:
To make real; to make worldly.
As nouns the difference between space and world
is that space is (lb) of time while world is human collective existence; existence in general.As verbs the difference between space and world
is that space is (obsolete|intransitive) to roam, walk, wander while world is to consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.space
English
(wikipedia space)Noun
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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) etherDerived 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 * workspaceSee also
(punctuation)Verb
(spac)- But she as Fayes are wont, in priuie place / Did spend her dayes, and lov'd in forests wyld to space .
Derived terms
* spaced * spaced-outAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----world
English
Noun
(wikipedia world)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
Towards the end of poverty, passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world , and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close
NASA's Ion-Drive Asteroid Hunter Lifts Off”, National Public Radio :
- I think many people think of asteroids as kind of little chips of rock. But the places that Dawn is going to really are more like worlds .
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world , buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
Synonyms
* (the earth) Earth, the earth, the globe, Sol III * (a planet) * (individual or group perspective or social setting) circleDerived terms
* dead to the world * end of the world * fast-paced world * First World * Fourth World * free world * have the world by the tail * Light of the World * not the end of the world * mean the world to * New World * Old World * out of this world * phenomenal world * real-world * Second World * think the world of * the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world * the world is one's oyster * Third World * umbworld * underworld * way of the world / ways of the world * weight of the world * world-class * worldly * world peace * world power * World Series * world soul * world war * World War I * World War II * world-weary * worldwide * World Wide WebVerb
(en verb)- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges (compare Spivak, 1985), while recognising that I, as a white settler-state woman, need to attend to differences between women, too.
- In a sense, the dictatorship was a failure of failure and, on that account, it was perhaps the exemplary system of control. Having in 1933 wagered on the worlding of the world in the regime's failure, Heidegger after the war can only rue his opportunistic hopes for an exposure of the ontological foundations of control.