space
space is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 9 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Place, having more or They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare; Long had he no space to dwell [in]. R. of Brunne. While I have time and space. Chaucer.
- 2.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. Gen. xxxii.
- 3.4. Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time. "Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space." R. of brunne. Nine times the space that measures day and night. Milton. God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance. Tillotson.
- 4.A short time; a while. [R.] "To stay your deadly strife a space." Spenser.
- 5.Walk; track; path; course. [Obs.] This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space. Chaucer.
- 6.(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. Note: Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line.
- 7.(Mus.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- 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. Hansard. -- Space rule (Print.), a fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter.
- 8.To walk; to rove; to roam. [Obs.] And loved in forests wild to space. Spenser.
- 9.To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- amidst
- ample
- amplitude
- and
- aspect
- attitude
- become
- bore
- breadth
- broad
- caliber
- calibrate
- chorography
- circumjacence
- corpulence
- crassitude
- diameter
- dilation
- direction
- discous
- dumpy
- entourage
- environment
- environs
- expand
- expansion
- extent
- fanlike
- footing
- geography
- ground
- have
- here
- hereabouts
- its
- latifoliate
- latitude
- lie
- limited
- local
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is space.
- What is place, having more or They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare; Long had he no space to dwell [in]. R. of Brunne. While I have time and space. Chaucer called?
- What is a short time; a while. [R.] "To stay your deadly strife a space." Spenser called?
- What is walk; track; path; course. [Obs.] This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space. Chaucer called?
- What is to walk; to rove; to roam. [Obs.] And loved in forests wild to space. Spenser called?
- What is to arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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