space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spās
ipa: /speɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: spaces
Etymology: From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas et al., and spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”).
Senses: examples: text: But neere him, thy Angell / Becomes a feare: as being o're-powr'd, therefore / Make ſpace enough betweene you.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 347, column 2:
text: 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.
ref: 2001 November 3, Sam Wollaston, “Russian around”, in The Guardian:
topics: heading
glosses: Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
The Distance between objects.
synonyms: word: break
word: gap
word: break
word: gap
word: interlapse
word: interspace
word: interstice
word: interstitium
word: opening
word: separation
word: space
examples: text: 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.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 364, column 1:
text: They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working.
ref: 2007 May 12, Dominic Bradbury, “Lost and found - an artist's voyage from city to country”, in The Guardian:
topics: heading
glosses: Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
A physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
synonyms: area
volume
examples: text: Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.
ref: 1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, section II:
text: 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.
ref: 1880 August, Popular Science:
text: 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.
ref: 2007 April 15, Anushka Asthana, David Smith, The Observer:
topics: heading
glosses: Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
A 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.
examples: text: the first man in space
text: How firſt began this Heav'n which we behold / Diſtant ſo high, with moving Fires adornd / Innumerable, and this which yeelds or fills / All ſpace, the ambient Aire wide interfus'd / Imbracing round this florid Earth, […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 86–90:
text: After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC:
text: The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or it will become extinct, Stephen Hawking warned today.
ref: 2010 August 9, Stephen Hawking, quotee, “Stephen Hawking: mankind must colonise space or die out”, in The Guardian:
topics: heading
glosses: Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
synonyms: outer space
examples: text: Around the time of my parents' divorce, I learned that reading could also give me space.
ref: 1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only:
text: "I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not; but right now I need my space."
ref: 2008, Jimmy Treigle, Walking on Water:
topics: heading
glosses: Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
examples: text: Come on, thou are granted ſpace.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 245, column 2:
text: In two days hence / The Judge of life and death aſcends his ſeat. / —This will afford him ſpace to reach the camp[…].
ref: 1793, Henry Boyd, “The Royal Message”, in Poems, Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell, page 408:
topics: heading
glosses: Of time.
Free time; leisure, opportunity.
synonyms: leisure time
spare time
examples: text: I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.
ref: 1893, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey:
text: The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so.
ref: 2007 October 20, Andy Bull, “We wozn't robbed!”, in The Guardian:
text: 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.
ref: 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:
topics: heading
glosses: Of time.
A specific (specified) period of time.
synonyms: word: duration
word: span
word: duration
word: interval
word: period
word: period of time
word: tide
word: time
word: time interval
word: time period
word: timespan
word: space
word: span
word: stound
examples: text: Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.
ref: 1923 May 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “(please specify the page)”, in The Inimitable Jeeves, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1979, →ISBN:
topics: heading
glosses: Of time.
An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
synonyms: word: spell
word: while
word: space
word: spell
word: throw
word: while
examples: text: exhibition space; public space; the space is light-filled
text: 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.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard.
ref: 2000, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender:
text: 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.
ref: 2012 July 16, Charlotte Higgins, “Tate Modern unlocks Tanks – and introduces live art into mainstream”, in The Guardian:
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glosses: A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries; (architecture) such a space inside or outside a building, often with a specified use.
examples: text: The note next above Sol is La; La, therefore, stands in the 2nd space; Si, on the 3rd line, &c.
ref: 1849, Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, translated by John Pyke Hullah, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing:
text: 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.
ref: 1990, Sammy Nzioki, Music Time:
topics: entertainment
heading
lifestyle
music
glosses: A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.
examples: text: According to experts, a single line of text should rarely exceed about 50 characters (including letters and all the spaces between words).
ref: 1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation:
text: It should be typed a space below the salutation : Dear Sir, Subject : Replacement of defective items.
ref: 2005, Dr BR Kishore, Dynamic Business Letter Writing:
topics: heading
glosses: A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.
synonyms: blank
gap
whitespace
hypernyms: punctuation mark
examples: text: If it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thruſts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing thoſe 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 ſtand Looſe 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 ſide of the Space keep their parallel diſtance; for by its Spring it thruſts the Letters that were cloſed with the end of the Bodkin to their adjunct Letters, that needed no cloſing.
ref: 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., volume 2, pages 240–1:
text: Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.
ref: 1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, page 110:
text: Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.
ref: 2005, Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd edition, page 91:
topics: heading
letterpress-typography
media
publishing
typography
glosses: A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
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).
synonyms: quad
quadrat
examples: text: Mainstream Hollywood would not cater to the taste for sexual sensation, which left a space for B-movies, including noir.
ref: 2004, Harry M Benshoff, editor, Queer Cinéma:
text: A horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be.
ref: 2009, Barbara L. Lev, From Pink to Green:
topics: heading
glosses: A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A gap; an empty place.
topics: geometry
heading
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
examples: text: Functional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory.
topics: heading
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space).
examples: text: innovation in the browser space
text: CNBC has shown a greater commitment to the crypto space than most other mainstream outlets, providing daily updates on bitcoin or other very large cryptocurrencies.
ref: 2019, Ryan Derousseau, The Everything Guide to Investing in Cryptocurrency […] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 269:
text: [T]hey became responsible for managing aspects of civilian labour in the medical space, and their roles were contrasted with those of the female physiotherapists in the hospital.
ref: 2020, Alexia Moncrieff, Expertise, Authority and Control, Cambridge University Press, page 187:
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glosses: A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour.
examples: text: Communication in Internet chat spaces allows participants to communicate so freely in the relative safety of anonymity that they forget their privacy.
ref: 2007, Jacob van Kokswijk, Digital Ego: Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Identity, page 88:
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glosses: A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room.
Hyponyms: word: 2-em space
word: 3-em space
word: address space
word: aerospace
word: affine space
word: agentspace
word: air space
word: airspace
word: antispace
word: artspace
word: backspace
word: Baire space
word: Banach space
word: base space
word: battlespace
word: beamspace
word: bedspace
word: bispace
word: blue space
word: bootspace
word: borderspace
word: bottomspace
word: brainspace
word: breathing space
word: bunkspace
word: chatspace
word: chemical space
word: codespace
word: colourspace
word: column space
word: compact space
word: conjugate space
word: connected space
word: counterspace
word: crawlspace
word: crawl space
word: cyberspace
word: danger space
word: dark space
word: dataspace
word: dead-air space
word: dead space
word: deep space
word: deskspace
word: diskspace
word: domspace
word: drift space
word: dual space
word: duospace
word: earthspace
word: ecospace
word: eigenspace
word: Einstein space
word: em space
word: en space
word: equispace
word: Euclidean space
word: exceptional space
word: exotic four-space
word: filespace
word: Firstspace
word: fishing space
word: flat space
word: fleshspace
word: floor space
word: Foch space
word: forespace
word: Fourier space
word: Fréchet space
word: free space
word: function space
word: gamespace
word: geospace
word: gopherspace
word: greenspace
word: G space
word: hackerspace
word: hackspace
word: hair space
word: half space
word: halfspace
word: hammerspace
word: Hausdorff space
word: headspace
word: hemispace
word: Hilbert space
word: homeomorphic space
word: homespace
word: homogeneous space
word: hydrospace
word: hyperbolic space
word: hyperspace
word: image space
word: inertial space
word: inner product space
word: interaction space
word: interplanetary space
word: interstellar space
word: intervillous space
word: isometric space
word: isospace
word: joint space
word: junkspace
word: Junkspace
word: justifying space
word: keyspace
word: lacunary space
word: leafspace
word: letterspace
word: Lindelöf space
word: linespace
word: living space
word: loading space
word: loadspace
word: locally ringed space
word: logspace
word: makerspace
word: marketspace
word: mathematical space
word: measurable space
word: megaspace
word: metacompact space
word: metaspace
word: metric space
word: metrizable space
word: microspace
word: midspace
word: Minkowski space
word: misspace
word: monospace
word: Moore space
word: morphospace
word: mutton space
word: namespace
word: nanospace
word: n-dimensional space
word: netspace
word: nonspace
word: normal space
word: normed linear space
word: n space
word: n-space
word: null space
word: nullspace
word: NUT space
word: object space
word: open half space
word: orbispace
word: orbit space
word: orthogonal space
word: outer space
word: overspace
word: paracompact space
word: Pauli spin space
word: Peano space
word: perfectly separable space
word: perivitelline space
word: phase space
word: playspace
word: Polish space
word: popliteal space
word: pore space
word: prespace
word: probability space
word: problem space
word: projective space
word: pseudospace
word: quotient space
word: realspace
word: Banach space
word: regular space
word: regular topological space
word: respace
word: Riemann space
word: ringed space
word: roofspace
word: runspace
word: sample space
word: screenspace
word: seaspace
word: Secondspace
word: semispace
word: separable space
word: sequentially compact space
word: shrinking space
word: skyspace
word: sociospace
word: Spacearium
word: spaceband
word: spacebased
word: spacecore
word: spacecut
word: spacedive
word: spacedock
word: spacedrive
word: spacefarer
word: spacefiller
word: spaceforce
word: spacegirl
word: spacegoing
word: spacegram
word: spacehand
word: spacehead
word: spacekin
word: spacelegs
word: spacelight
word: spaceline
word: spaceliner
word: spaceling
word: spacelore
word: spacenik
word: spacepad
word: spaceplane
word: spacepower
word: spaceproof
word: spacequake
word: spacescape
word: spacescraper
word: spaceshifting
word: spacesick
word: spaceside
word: spacesynth
word: spacetime
word: spacewalk
word: spacewalker
word: spacewards
word: spaceway
word: spacewear
word: spacewise
word: spacewoman
word: spaceworthy
word: spacistor
word: spacy
word: spammer
word: spaxel
word: spime
word: spin space
word: state space
word: strictly convex space
word: subarachnoid space
word: subspace
word: superspace
word: symmetric space
word: T0 space
word: T1 space
word: T3 space
word: T4 space
word: tablespace
word: tangent space
word: tensor space
word: tetraspace
word: thick space
word: thin space
word: Thirdspace
word: topological space
word: topspace
word: total space
word: treespace
word: triangulable space
word: Tychonoff space
word: uniform space
word: unitary space
word: United States Space Force
word: userspace
word: vector space
word: wave-vector space
word: weakly complete space
word: webspace
word: white space
word: whitespace
word: workspace
Derived terms: 3-to-the-em space
5-em space
5-to-the-em space
absolute space
absolute space-time
action space
aerospace
airspace
alien space bats
alonement space
anchor space
anti-de Sitter space
anti-space
baby space
backspace
Bloch space
breathing-space
bunkspace
Calabi-Yau space
Cartesian space
Cauchy space
Chebyshev space
classifying space
clearance space
color space
confined space
counter-space
covering space
crash space
crawlspace
Crookes space
cyberspace
deep-space
de Sitter space
Destot's space
double space
double-space
Eilenberg-MacLane space
empty space
Euclidian space
factor space
figure space
floorspace
floor-space
Fock space
four-space
Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Communism
Haar space
handicapped space
hard space
headspace
head space
head-space
hold space
H-space
hydrospace
hyperspace
identification space
ideographic space
information space
intercostal space
interspace
in the space of
into space
is this a safe space
kernel space
kick space
Kolmogorov space
latent space
liminal space
linear space
little space
Lp space
measure space
meat-space
meat space
multispace
namespace
near space
near-space
negative space
no-break space
non-breaking space
non-space
open space
other-space
paraglottic space
parallel dead space
parking space
personal space
Poincaré space
prehilbert space
pre-Hilbert space
projective Hilbert space
pseudospace
public space
punctuation space
pupillary space
quadrilateral space syndrome
row space
safer space
safe space
search space
Seifert fibered space
Seifert fiber space
Seifert fibred space
Seifert fibre space
shared space
Sierpinski space
single-space
slack space
sober space
Sobolev space
space adaptation syndrome
space age
Space Age
space agency
space alien
space attenuation
space average
space bar
space-based
space bear
space biology
space blanket
spaceborne
space-borne
space bridge
space buns
space cadet
space-cadet keyboard
space cake
space capsule
space case
space centrode
space charge
space cloth
space communication
space complexity
space cone
space coordinate
spacecraft
space current
space curve
space debris
space defence
space defense
space disco
space docking
space dog
space dot
space dust
space dyeing
space elevator
space environment
space equivalent zone
space exploration
space factor
spacefaring
space-faring
space-filling
space-filling curve
space-filling model
space fixed reference
space flight
space force
space frame
spaceful
space group
space guidance
space gun
space-happy
space heater
space heating
space helmet
space herpes
space hopper
space ice cream
space-invader
space invader
space jellyfish
space junk
space lattice
space law
spaceless
space-like
spacelike
space line
space-lore
spacely
spaceman
space marine
space medicine
space mission
space motion
space nation
space navigation
space of Destot
space of Disse
space opera
space-operatic
space out
space perception
space permeability
space polar coordinate
spaceport
space power system
space probe
space processing
space programme
space program
space quadrature
space quantization
spacer
space race
space reconnaissance
space reddening
space request
space research
space roar
space rock
space rocket
space rule
space satellite
space-saving
space science
space sexology
spaceship
space ship
space shuttle
space sickness
space simulator
space station
space suit
space suppression
space technology
space-time
space-time crystal
space-time trade-off
space tourism
space tourist
space travel
space vehicle
space velocity
space vessel
space walk
spaceward
space wave
space weapon
space weather
space-wide
space work
space writer
spacey
spacial
spoiler space
stare into space
Stone space
subdural space
subspace
sunspace
swap space
Talairach space
Teichmüller space
third space
three-space
time parameter space
time-space
time-space complexity
time-space compression
time-space convergence
time-space grid
topological space
Traube's space
Triebel-Lizorkin space
u-space
Virchow-Robin space
visual space
vowel space
warm space
waste of space
watch this space
whitespace
word space
Zariski-Riemann space
Zariski space
zero-width space
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