Space /(spās)/
Space
n.
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Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.
Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion.
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Place, having more or less extension; room.
They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare; Long had he no space to dwell [in].
While I have time and space.
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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.
Put a space betwixt drove and drove.
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Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time.
Nine times the space that measures day and night.
God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance.
- A short time; a while. [R.]
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Walk; track; path; course. [Obs.]
This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space.
- 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. (Print.)
- One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. (Mus.)
- that portion of the universe outside the earth or its atmosphere; -- called also outer space.
Phrases & Compounds
- Absolute space
- See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc.
- deep space
- the part of outer space which is beyond the limits of the solar system.
- Space line
- 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.
- Space rule
- a fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter.
Space
v. i.
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To walk; to rove; to roam. [Obs.]
And loved in forests wild to space.
Space
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Spaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Spacong
- To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters. (Print.)