space

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.

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

   “Which means that for every car there was 10 years ago, there are now 40. Which means - and this is my own, not totally scientific, calculation - that the space between cars on the roads in 1991 was roughly 39 car lengths, because today there is no space at all.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.

   “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.”

   “They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working.”

3. (countable, uncountable)Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.

   “Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.”

   “These are not questions which can be decided by reference to our space intuitions, for our intuitions are confined to Euclidean space, and even there are insufficient, approximative.”

   “The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of Nasa's most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday 'to a precision of better than 1 per cent' the assertion Einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the Earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time.”

4. (countable, uncountable)Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.

   “the first man in space”

   “How firſt began this Heav'n which we behold / Diſtant ſo high, with moving Fires adornd / Innumerable, and this which yeelds or fills / All ſpace, the ambient Aire wide interfus'd / Imbracing round this florid Earth, […]”

   “After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition.”

   “The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or it will become extinct, Stephen Hawking warned today.”

5. (countable, uncountable)Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.

   “Around the time of my parents' divorce, I learned that reading could also give me space.”

   “"I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not; but right now I need my space."”

6. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Of time.

   “Come on, thou are granted ſpace.”

   “In two days hence / The Judge of life and death aſcends his ſeat. / —This will afford him ſpace to reach the camp[…].”

7. (countable, uncountable)Of time.

   “I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.”

   “The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so.”

   “But their lead lasted just 10 minutes before Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe both headed home in the space of two minutes to wrestle back control.”

8. (countable, uncountable)Of time.

   “Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.”

9. (countable, uncountable)A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.

   “exhibition space; public space; the space is light-filled”

   “Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.”

   “The street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard.”

   “Converted from vast chambers beneath the old Bankside Power Station which once held a million gallons of oil, the new public areas consist of two large circular spaces for performances and film installations, plus a warren of smaller rooms.”

10. (countable, uncountable)A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.

    “The note next above Sol is La; La, therefore, stands in the 2nd space; Si, on the 3rd line, &c.”

    “The lines and spaces of the staff are named according to the first seven letters of the alphabet, that is, A B C D E F G.”

11. (countable, uncountable)A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.

    “According to experts, a single line of text should rarely exceed about 50 characters (including letters and all the spaces between words).”

    “It should be typed a space below the salutation : Dear Sir, Subject : Replacement of defective items.”

12. (countable, uncountable)A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.

    “Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.”

    “Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.”

13. (countable, uncountable)A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.

    “Mainstream Hollywood would not cater to the taste for sexual sensation, which left a space for B-movies, including noir.”

    “A horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be.”

14. (countable, uncountable)A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
15. (countable)A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.

    “Functional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory.”

16. (countable, figuratively)A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.

    “innovation in the browser space”

    “CNBC has shown a greater commitment to the crypto space than most other mainstream outlets, providing daily updates on bitcoin or other very large cryptocurrencies.”

    “[T]hey became responsible for managing aspects of civilian labour in the medical space, and their roles were contrasted with those of the female physiotherapists in the hospital.”

17. (countable, uncountable)A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.

    “Communication in Internet chat spaces allows participants to communicate so freely in the relative safety of anonymity that they forget their privacy.”

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete)To roam, walk, wander.

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

2. (transitive)To set some distance apart.

   “Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.”

   “The cities are evenly spaced.”

3. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.

   “This paragraph seems badly spaced.”

4. To space out (become distracted, lose focus).

   “My sprout, like I'm totally spaced over you and besides I like older women (arh-arh). I love you...”

5. (transitive)To kill (someone) by ejection into outer space, usually without a space suit.

   “The captain spaced the traitors.”

   “Sound effect of blow with blunt instrument, groan, and the unmistakable cycling of an air lock—Castor: "Sorry, folks. My assistant has just spaced Mr. Rudolf. […]"”

   “A lot of people make jokes about spacing somebody, about shoving somebody out an airlock. I don't think it's funny. Never will.”

6. (intransitive)To travel into and through outer space.

   “He well remembered, when he was a junior officer, how the sight of a well dressed, impeccably neat commanding officer, no matter how long they had been spacing, maintained the enthusiasm, confidence and morale of the officers and men.”

name

1. A surname.