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Space

noun

The unlimited expanse in which everything is located. Synonym: infinite. "The boundless regions of the infinite"

An empty area (usually bounded in some way between things). "They stopped at an open space in the jungle" , "The space between his teeth"

An area reserved for some particular purpose.

Any location outside the Earth's atmosphere. Synonym: outer space. "The first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth"

A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing. Synonym: blank.

The interval between two times. Synonym: distance. "It all happened in the space of 10 minutes"

A blank area. Synonyms: blank space, place.

One of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff.

(printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences. Synonym: quad.

verb

(past & past part. spaced; pres. part. spacong)

Place at intervals.

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"Space" Quotes from Famous Books

... where roads pass through a forest, a second growth had shot up on each side of this highway, which was fringed for the whole distance with large bushes of pine, hemlock, chestnut and maple. In some places these bushes almost touched the track, while in others a large space was given. We were winding our way through this wood, and had nearly reached its centre, at a point where no house was visible—and no house, indeed, stood within half a mile of us—with the view in front and in rear limited ...

— The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. - Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts • James Fenimore Cooper

... basis of what has been proved we ought not to regard man as an imperfect being, but rather as one who is perfectly adapted to his place in the universe. His knowledge, for example, is measured by the brief time he has to live and the brief space he ...

— The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems • Alexander Pope

... of the ship in three aerial leaps. It spanned from the forecastle-head to the forecastle-house, next to the 'midship house, and then to the poop. The poop, which was really the roof or deck over all the cabin space below, and which occupied the whole after-part of the ship, was very large. It was broken only by the half-round and half-covered wheel-house at the very stern and by the chart-house. On either side of the latter two doors ...

— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London

... recently beheld—the onrushing, white piled billows above the cataract, gathering strength for their mighty leap—the final plunge of the resistless torrent—the bank of rainbow-coloured mist hovering in space over a dark abyss—and far below and beyond the mist-bank the murky chasm, where a white seething flood was beating its wild anger out against jagged rocks in its mad endeavour to fight its way to freedom between narrow canyon walls rising in frowning ...

— The Gaunt Gray Wolf - A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob • Dillon Wallace

... wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. The hero of the story is likewise invention, though, as Froissart ascribes to King Robert II. 'eleven sons who loved arms,' Malcolm ...

— The Caged Lion • Charlotte M. Yonge

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