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space

noun
/speɪs/

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin spatiumbor. Old French espace Anglo-Norman spacebor. Middle English space English space From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas, et al.; and spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”). Partially displaced native Old English rum, whence Modern English room.

  1. derived from *(s)peh₂-✻
  2. derived from spatium
  3. derived from space
  4. inherited from space

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. 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[…].

  3. A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.

    • exhibition space; public space; the space is light-filled
    • The street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. 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. 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. 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. 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.

    7. A surname.

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Derived

3-to-the-em space, 5-em space, 5-to-the-em space, absolute space, absolute space-time, action space, aerospace, agentspace, airspace, alien space bats, anchor space, anti-de Sitter space, antispace, anti-space, artspace, baby space, backspace, battlespace, beamspace, bedspace, bispace, Bloch space, bootspace, borderspace, bottomspace, brainspace, breathing-space, bunkspace, Calabi-Yau space, Cartesian space, Cauchy space, chatspace, Chebyshev space, classifying space, clearance space, closure space, codespace, color space, colour space, colourspace · +385 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at space. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01space02otherwise03respects04respect05regard06steady07constant

A definitional loop anchored at space. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at space

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA