space

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/speɪs/]

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1. space (noun) — sense 1

Definition: Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.: The distance between objects.

Example: But neere him, thy Angell / Becomes a feare: as being o're-powr'd, therefore / Make ſpace enough betweene you.

2. space (noun) — sense 2

Definition: Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.: A physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).

Example: 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.

3. space (noun) — sense 3

Definition: 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.

Example: Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.

4. space (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To roam, walk, wander.

Example: But she as Fayes are wont, in priuie place / Did spend her dayes, and lov'd in forests wyld to space.

5. space (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To set some distance apart.

Example: Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.

6. space (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.

Example: This paragraph seems badly spaced.

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