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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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Etymology of 'Space'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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