'Space' definitions:
Definition of 'space'
(from WordNet)
noun
The unlimited expanse in which everything is located; "they tested his ability to locate objects in space"; "the boundless regions of the infinite" [syn: space, infinite]
noun
An empty area (usually bounded in some way between things); "the architect left space in front of the building"; "they stopped at an open space in the jungle"; "the space between his teeth"
noun
An area reserved for some particular purpose; "the laboratory's floor space"
noun
Any location outside the Earth's atmosphere; "the astronauts walked in outer space without a tether"; "the first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth" [syn: outer space, space]
noun
A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" [syn: space, blank]
noun
The interval between two times; "the distance from birth to death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes" [syn: distance, space]
noun
A blank area; "write your name in the space provided" [syn: space, blank space, place]
noun
One of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff; "the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E"
noun
(printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences [syn: quad, space]
verb
Place at intervals; "Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates"
Definition of 'Space'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Space'
From: GCIDE
- Space \Space\ (sp[=a]s), n. [OE. space, F. espace, from L. spatium space; cf. Gr. spa^n to draw, to tear; perh. akin to E. span. Cf. Expatiate.]
- 1. Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible. [1913 Webster]
- Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Place, having more or less extension; room. [1913 Webster]
- They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare; Long had he no space to dwell [in]. --R. of Brunne. [1913 Webster]
- While I have time and space. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Put a space betwixt drove and drove. --Gen. xxxii. 16. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Nine times the space that measures day and night. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A short time; a while. [R.] "To stay your deadly strife a space." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Walk; track; path; course. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Mus.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. [1913 Webster]
- 9. that portion of the universe outside the earth or its atmosphere; -- called also outer space. [PJC]
- 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. --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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Space'
From: GCIDE
- Space \Space\, v. i. [Cf. OF. espacier, L. spatiari. See Space, n.] To walk; to rove; to roam. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- And loved in forests wild to space. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'space'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 3-D,
- accommodation,
- aerospace,
- aerosphere,
- aesthetic distance,
- air hole,
- air pocket,
- airspace,
- alien,
- align,
- allocate,
- allot,
- amount,
- ample scope,
- amplitude,
- aperture,
- apportion,
- area,
- arrange,
- array,
- astronomical unit,
- bar,
- bar line,
- belt,
- berth,
- bit,
- blank,
- blank check,
- brace,
- breadth,
- break,
- broaching,
- bump,
- burden,
- caesura,
- caliber,
- capacity,
- carte blanche,
- CAT,
- cavity,
- ceiling,
- celestial spaces,
- chaos,
- chasm,
- check,
- chronology,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- cleft,
- collocate,
- compass,
- compose,
- confines,
- content,
- continental shelf,
- continuity,
- cordage,
- corridor,
- cosmic space,
- country,
- crack,
- crosswind,
- cubic,
- cut,
- day,
- deal,
- deal out,
- deep space,
- degree,
- department,
- depths of space,
- dimensional,
- disclosure,
- discontinuity,
- dispart,
- dispose,
- distance,
- distance between,
- distribute,
- district,
- divergence,
- division,
- double space,
- duration,
- duree,
- elbowroom,
- em,
- em quad,
- em space,
- empty space,
- en,
- en quad,
- en space,
- environs,
- ether space,
- expanse,
- expansion,
- extent,
- exterrestrial,
- extramundane,
- extrasolar,
- extraterrene,
- extraterrestrial,
- farness,
- fateful moment,
- favorable wind,
- fenestra,
- field,
- fistula,
- five-em space,
- fix,
- flat,
- fog,
- fontanel,
- foramen,
- four-em space,
- fourth-dimensional,
- free course,
- free hand,
- free play,
- free scope,
- freeboard,
- front,
- full scope,
- full swing,
- gap,
- gape,
- gat,
- grade,
- ground,
- gulf,
- hair space,
- half space,
- head wind,
- heartland,
- height,
- hiatus,
- high-pressure area,
- hinterland,
- hole,
- hollow,
- hour,
- infinity,
- inlet,
- instant,
- interim,
- intermediate space,
- intermission,
- interruption,
- interspace,
- interstellar space,
- interstice,
- interval,
- ionosphere,
- jetstream,
- jump,
- juncture,
- justification space,
- justifying space,
- kairos,
- keep apart,
- lacuna,
- land,
- lapse,
- lastingness,
- latitude,
- lay out,
- laying open,
- leak,
- leap,
- ledger line,
- leeway,
- length,
- level,
- light-year,
- light-years,
- limit,
- line,
- line up,
- long rope,
- low-pressure area,
- make a space,
- maneuvering space,
- margin,
- mark,
- marshal,
- measure,
- measure out,
- metagalactic space,
- mileage,
- milieu,
- minute,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- neighborhood,
- no holds barred,
- notch,
- nuance,
- ocean of emptiness,
- offshore rights,
- open space,
- opening,
- opening up,
- order,
- organize,
- orifice,
- otherworldly,
- outer space,
- outlet,
- overcast,
- parcel out,
- parsec,
- parsecs,
- part,
- parts,
- pas,
- passageway,
- patent space,
- pause,
- peg,
- period,
- perspective,
- piece,
- pitch,
- place,
- plane,
- plateau,
- play,
- pocket,
- point,
- pore,
- poundage,
- precincts,
- pregnant moment,
- premises,
- pressureless space,
- proportion,
- proportional,
- psychological moment,
- psychological time,
- purlieus,
- quad,
- quadrat,
- quantity,
- quarter,
- rally,
- range,
- rank,
- ratio,
- reach,
- regiment,
- region,
- remoteness,
- remove,
- room,
- rope,
- roughness,
- round,
- rung,
- salient,
- scale,
- scope,
- sea room,
- season,
- seat,
- section,
- separate,
- separation,
- set apart,
- set at intervals,
- set out,
- shade,
- shadow,
- single space,
- slot,
- slug,
- soil,
- soup,
- space between,
- space out,
- space-time,
- spaceband,
- spaciousness,
- span,
- spatial,
- spatiotemporal,
- spell,
- spherical,
- split,
- spread,
- staff,
- stage,
- stair,
- standard,
- stave,
- step,
- stereoscopic,
- stint,
- stoma,
- stowage,
- stratosphere,
- stretch,
- stride,
- substratosphere,
- superficial,
- surface,
- swing,
- tail wind,
- tense,
- term,
- terrain,
- territory,
- the future,
- the past,
- the present,
- the void,
- the void above,
- thick space,
- thin space,
- three-dimensional,
- three-mile limit,
- throwing open,
- tide,
- time,
- time interval,
- time lag,
- timebinding,
- tolerance,
- tonnage,
- transcendental,
- transmundane,
- tread,
- tropopause,
- troposphere,
- trough,
- turbulence,
- twelve-mile limit,
- two-dimensional,
- uncorking,
- unstopping,
- vicinage,
- vicinity,
- visibility,
- visibility zero,
- volume,
- volumetric,
- wait,
- way,
- ways,
- whet,
- while,
- wide berth,
- yawn,
- zone
Words containing 'Space'
- Spaced,
- Spaceful,
- spaced out,
- spacing,
- Absolute space,
- Clearance space,
- Crookes space,
- Euclidian space,
- Flat space,
- Hair space,
- Room and space,
- Space age,
- Space cadet,
- Space flight,
- Space line,
- Space of dimension,
- Space rule,
- Space suit,
- Space travel,
- Space walk,
- Void space,
- air space,
- blank space,
- breathing space,
- crawl space,
- deep space,
- disc space,
- disk space,
- empty space,
- enclosed space,
- euclidean space,
- even spacing,
- hilbert space,
- homaloidal space,
- intergalactic space,
- interplanetary space,
- interstellar space,
- living space,
- mathematical space,
- metric space,
- null space,
- outer space,
- parking space,
- pericardial space,
- phase space,
- pleural space,
- space bar,
- space biology,
- space capsule,
- space heater,
- space helmet,
- space key,
- space laboratory,
- space lattice,
- space medicine,
- space needle,
- space platform,
- space probe,
- space program,
- space rocket,
- space shuttle,
- space sickness,
- space station,
- space time,
- space vehicle,
- space writer,
- spaced-out,
- storage space,
- subarachnoid space,
- swap space,
- topological space,
- visual space,
- Hubble Space Telescope,
- Space of four dimensions,
- Space of three dimensions,
- Space of two dimensions,
- double-space,
- double-spaced,
- double-spacing,
- single-spaced,
- single-spacing,
- space-time,
- triple-space,
- triple-spacing,
- wide open spaces,
- air force space command,
- dead-air space,
- national aeronautics and space administration,
- space-reflection symmetry,
- space-time continuum