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Space   /speɪs/   Listen
noun
Space  n.  
1.
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."
2.
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."
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. "Put a space betwixt drove and drove."
4.
Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time. "Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space." "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."
5.
A short time; a while. (R.) "To stay your deadly strife a space."
6.
Walk; track; path; course. (Obs.) "This ilke (same) monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space."
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. Note: Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line.
8.
(Mus.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.
9.
That portion of the universe outside the earth or its atmosphere; called also outer space.
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.
Space rule (Print.), a fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter.


verb
Space  v. t.  (past & past part. spaced; pres. part. spacong)  (Print.) To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.


Space  v. i.  To walk; to rove; to roam. (Obs.) "And loved in forests wild to space."





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"Space" Quotes from Famous Books



... and left to discover where the deserter had fled. With her great blue eyes and rose-leaf complexion set in a frame of golden hair, she looked like an angel from heaven, or one of the sweet-faced cherubs who float in space at the top ...
— More about Pixie • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... age that is passing, we shall have in mind what may roughly be reckoned as the last hundred years. That space includes, for those of us who are not in our first youth, the time of our {10} parents, and even, it may be, of our grandparents. The period has a certain distinctiveness of character in spite of superficial diversities. It was marked, as we have said, by the intelligence and vigour ...
— God and the World - A Survey of Thought • Arthur W. Robinson
... seeing it, trusting to luck, and have not regretted it so far. The river is wide and deep, with plenty of islands, of fish and of crayfish. The banks are beautiful, well-covered with grass and trees. And best of all, there is so much space that I feel as if for my one hundred roubles I have obtained a right to live on an expanse of which one can see no end. Nature and life here is built on the pattern now so old-fashioned and rejected by magazine editors. Nightingales sing night and day, dogs ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov
... omission, defect, or mistake in the said second article in any wise notwithstanding. Provided always, and our will and pleasure is, that these our letters patent shall be enrolled in our Court of Chancery, in our said kingdom of Ireland, within the space of one year ...
— A Popular History of Ireland - From the earliest period to the emancipation of the Catholics • Thomas D'Arcy McGee
... are little hut-temples, and the chief directs the sacrifices of food, or of animals. There are religious pilgrimages, with sacrifice, to mountains. God, like men in this region, has various names, as Chiuta, 'God in space and the rainbow sign across;' Mpambe, 'God Almighty' (or rather 'pre-excellent'); Mlezi, 'God the Sustainer,' and Mulungu, 'God who is spirit.' Mulungu God, 'not spirits or fetish.' 'You can't put the plural, as God is ...
— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang


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