space Hear it!

space Definition

space (spās)

noun

    1. the three-dimensional, continuous expanse extending in all directions and containing all matter: variously thought of as boundless or indeterminately finite
    2. outer space
    1. the distance, expanse, or area between, over, within, etc. things
    2. area or room sufficient for or allotted to something a parking space
  1. an interval or period of time, often one of specified length
  2. ☆ reserved accommodations to buy space on a ship
  3. ☆ room in a newspaper or magazine, or time on radio or TV, available for use by advertisers
  4. Informal independence, privacy, and freedom to follow one's own interests
  5. Math. a set of points or elements assumed to satisfy a given set of postulates (Ex.: space of one dimension is a line and of two dimensions is a plane)
  6. Music the open area between any two lines of a staff
  7. Printing
    1. a blank piece of type metal used to separate characters or words
    2. the area left vacant by this or by mechanical or electronic means on a printed or typed line
  8. Telegraphy an interval when the key is open, or not in contact, during the sending of a message

Etymology: ME < OFr espace < L spatium < IE base *spēi-, to flourish, expand, succeed > speed, L spes, hope, ON sparr, OE spær, thrifty

adjective

of or pertaining to space, esp. to outer space

transitive verb spaced, spac·ing

to arrange with space or spaces between; divide into or by spaces

space Related Forms
spac·er noun
space Idioms

space out

to insert more space between letters, words, or lines so as to extend to the required length

space Synonyms

space

modif.

outer-space, space-age, transearth, lunar, Martian, interplanetary, interstellar, selenological; see also infinite.

space Synonyms

space

n.

  1. The infinite regions

    outer space, the heavens, infinite distance, infinity, interstellar space, interplanetary space, the beyond, distance beyond the farthest stars, illimitable distance, measureless miles, the void, space-age distances, area of weightlessness, where time and space are one; see also expanse.

    Antonyms limit, measure, definite area.

  2. Room

    expanse, scope, range; see extent.

  3. A place

    area, location, reservation; see place 3.

  4. An interval in time

    season, period, term; see time 1.

space Synonyms

space

v.

  1. Group

    align, range, apportion; see order 3.

  2. Interspace

    set at intervals, interval, keep apart; see separate 2.

space Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • watch: Watch this space for the next film night then contact the team or Mme.
  • confine: Out of the bag the process will be quicker, but badges in confined spaces should last better for these reasons.
  • occupy: Three seperate pieces occupy the space of the Approach Gallery.
  • allocate: Externally there is a single garage which is situated en bloc plus an allocated parking space.
  • fill: A great way to fill wall space with stunning images.
  • enclose: Where a temple is found within an enclosed space, this is in most cases a rectangular space aligned with the temple.

Adjective modifier

  • open: Open Spaces There will be a clean up day in November.
  • green: The Green Flag Award scheme is the national standard for parks and green spaces.
  • outer: Moreover, we shall not be the first to place any weapons in outer space.
  • ample: The ' U ' shaped main cabin has ample storage space with two large side lockers, a cupboard & two drawers.
  • empty: Void size is a measure of how much of the medium consists of empty space.
  • public: The station seeks to create a public space where: ?

Modifies a noun

  • shuttle: Fly my space shuttle into the sun on my 105th birthday.
  • exploration: Why am I so concerned about Britain's role in space exploration?

Noun used with modifier

  • parking: Ample parking spaces in farm yard in front of house.
  • disk: We do not set any limit on how much disk space is used.
  • storage: The ' U ' shaped main cabin has ample storage space with two large side lockers, a cupboard & two drawers.
  • exhibition: Many cultural bodies can make use of performance and exhibition spaces in interlocking rhythms.
  • office: The office space that has been created in the new oxford social center is still mainly empty at the moment.
  • living: Ask can you send that heat from the stove out of your living space.
space Quotes

Yet, across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowlyand surely drew their plans against us.

—Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say '.'

—Burroughs,William S(eward)

   Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

—Johnson, Philip Cortelyou

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

—Democritus

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time Is wetter water, slimier slime!

—Brooke, Rupert Chawner

Die Zeit ist das Element der Erz a« hlung, wie sie das Element des Lebens ist,öunl o« sbar damit verbunden, wie mit den K o« rpern im Raum. Sie ist auch das Element der Musik, als welche die Zeit misst und gliedert, sie kurzweilig und kostbar auf einmal macht. For time is the medium of narration, as it is the medium of life. Both are inextricably bound up with it, as are bodies in space. Similarly, time is the medium of music; music divides, measures, articulates time, and can shorten it, yet enhance its value, both at once.

—Mann,Thomas

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert of time and space.

—Dal|¤  , Salvador

Thin squeaks of radio static, The captured fume of space foams in our ears.

—Crane, (Harold) Hart

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

To say nothing is out here isincorrect; tosay the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stoneand earth is closer to the truth.

—Heat-Moon,William Least originally  WilliamTrogdon

An artist who has travelled on a steam train, driven an automobile,or flowninanairplanedoesn'tfeelthesame way about form and space as one who has not.

—Davis, Stuart

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining togetheras one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

—Muir,John

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

—Gagarin,Yuri A(lekseyevich)

Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space.

—Crane, (Harold) Hart

   Hebelievesthat sciencefictionistheapocalyptic literature of the 20th century, the authentic language of Auschwitz, Eniwetok and Aldermaston.He also believes that inner space, not outer, isthe real subject of science fiction.

—Ballard,J(ames) G(raham)

This island rock in space turns flowering endlessly To peaks of cloud still mounting where you took Your last high passage and your faltering luck.

—Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero

But Lancelot mused a little space; He said,'She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.'

—Tennyson

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

—Cory,William originally  WilliamJohnson

L'amour, c'est l'espace et le temps rendus sensibles au c½ur. Love is space and time made tender to the heart.

—Proust, Marcel

In the United Statesthere ismorespace wherenobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

—Stein, Gertrude

BRADYISM: A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in large families†symptoms of Bradyism include a facility for mind games, emotional withdrawal in situations of overcrowding, and a deeply felt need for a well-defined personal space.

—Coupland, Douglas

Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element in the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if therandomelement decreasesthearrow pointstowards the past† I shall usethe phrase'time's arrow'to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.

—Eddington, SirArthur Stanley

No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out their place.

—Marvell, Andrew

   One does not walk around a statue any more than one walks around a painting, because one does not walk around a figure to receive an impression from it.Nothing is material in space.

—Rosso, Medardo

'Let there be Licht,'said God, and there was A little: but He lacked poo'er To licht up mair than pairt o'space at aince, And there is lots o'darkness that's the same Asgin He'd never spoken

—Grieve

At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

—Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

Surelyarchitecture is the organization for pleasure of enclosed space. And what more magnificent enclosure than a town, a place, a place where the spirit is cuddled, made serene, made proud, happy, or excited depending on the ceremony, the day, the hour.

—Johnson, Philip Cortelyou

At its best a poem full of space and reverie.

—Baudelaire, Charles

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

—Lamb, Charles

Astronauts! Rotarians in space!

—Vidal, Gore originally Eugene Luther Vidal,Jr

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and darköa shining space With the grave's narrowness, though not its peace.

—Graves, Robert von Ranke

Talis, inquiens, mihi videtur, rex, vita hominum praesens in terris, ad comparationem eius, quod nobis incertum est, temporis, quale cum te residente, ad caenam cum ducibus ac ministris tuis tempore brumale†adveniens unus passerum domum citissime, pervolaverit; qui cum per unum ostium ingrediens, mox per aliud exierit. Ipso quidem tempore, quo intus est, hiemis tempestate non tangitur, sed tamen parvissimo spatio serenitatis ad momentum excurso, mox de hieme in hiemem regrediens, tuis oculis elabitur. Ita haec vita hominum ad modicum apparet; quid autem sequatur, quidve praecesserit, prorsus ignoramus. 'Such,' he said,'O King, seems to me the present life of menon earth, incomparisonwiththattimewhichtousis uncertain, as if when on a winter's night you sit feasting with your ealdormen and thegnsöa single sparrow should flyswiftly intothehall, and coming inat one door, instantly flyoutthrough another.Inthattime inwhichit is indoorsit isindeed nottouched by thefuryofthewinter, and yet, this smallest space of calmness being passed almost in a flash, from winter going into winter again, it is lost to your eyes. Somewhat like this appears the life of man; but of what follows or what went before, we are utterly ignorant.'

—Bede known as  'theVenerable'

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to actörather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or 'express'an object, actual or imagined.What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

—Rosenberg, Harold

   Space isn't remote at all. It's onlyan hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

—Hoyle, Sir Fred

Dead echoes! But I knew her body there, Time like a serpent down her shoulder, dark, And space, an eaglet's wing, laid on her hair.

—Crane, (Harold) Hart

A golfcourse isthe epitome of all that ispurely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quicklyas possible.

—Giraudoux, (Hippolyte) Jean

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

—Keats,John

I take to be the central fact to man born in America† I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

—Olson, Charles

Spaceöthe final frontier.

—Roddenberry, Gene

I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.

—Scott, F(rancis) R(eginald)

You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. 863

—Toole,John Kennedy