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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."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Space" Quotes from Famous Books



... space here to describe the cruel sufferings of the two younger brothers of Louis Philippe during their captivity. The elder of the two, the Duke of Montpensier, was but seventeen years of age; the younger, Count Beaujolais, was but thirteen. The brothers were confined separately, in dark, fetid dungeons, ...
— Louis Philippe - Makers of History Series • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
... and occupies most space in the constitution because its framers regarded the legislative as the most important branch. And laws must be made before they can be interpreted ...
— Studies in Civics • James T. McCleary
... boys surrounded Hook, who seemed to have a charmed life, as he kept them at bay in that circle of fire. They had done for his dogs, but this man alone seemed to be a match for them all. Again and again they closed upon him, and again and again he hewed a clear space. He had lifted up one boy with his hook, and was using him as a buckler, when another, who had just passed his sword through Mullins, sprang into ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie
... any man had tackled in this country since Abe Lincoln? Remember how they raised such a hullabaloo when they were sent to the workhouse? Well, suppose the newspapers, instead of giving them front-page headlines and columns of space every day, had refused to print a line about them or even so much as to mention their names. Do you believe they would have stuck to the job week after week as they did stick to it? I tell you they'd have quit ...
— The Thunders of Silence • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... back veranda, the kitchen, and the space between, filled with an excited crowd of blacks, old and young, talking, gesticulating, crying, moaning ...
— Elsie's Motherhood • Martha Finley


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