{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "speɪs" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/space.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/space.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "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”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(heading) Of time.", "submean": [ "(now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity. \nSynonyms: leisure time, spare time\nc. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 245, column 2:Come on, thou are granted ſpace.\n1793, Henry Boyd, “The Royal Message”, in Poems‎, Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell, page 408:In two days hence / The Judge of life and death aſcends his ſeat. / —This will afford him ſpace to reach the camp .", "A specific (specified) period of time. \nSynonyms: duration, span; see also Thesaurus:period\n1893, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey\nI pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.\n2007 October 20, Andy Bull, “We wozn't robbed!”, in The Guardian‎:The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so.\n2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport: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.", "An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while. \nSynonyms: spell, while; see also Thesaurus:uncertain period\n1923, P G Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves‎, →OCLC:Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs." ] }, { "mean": "(heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.", "submean": [ "Distance between things. \nSynonyms: break, gap; see also Thesaurus:interspace\nc. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 347, column 2:But neere him, thy Angell / Becomes a feare: as being o're-powr'd, therefore / Make ſpace enough betweene you.\n2001 November 3, Sam Wollaston, “Russian around”, in The Guardian‎: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.", "Physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something). \nSynonyms: area, volume\nc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 364, column 1: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.\n2007 May 12, Dominic Bradbury, “Lost and found - an artist's voyage from city to country”, in The Guardian‎:They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working.", "Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this. \n1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, II\nSpace is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.\n1880, Popular Science, August:\nThese 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.\n2007, Anushka Asthana & David Smith, The Observer, 15 April:\nThe 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.", "The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. \nSynonym: outer space\nthe first man in space\n1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 86–90: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, \n1900 December – 1901 August, H G Wells, The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, , published 1901, →OCLC:After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition.\n2010 August 9, quoting Stephen Hawking, “Stephen Hawking: mankind must colonise space or die out”, in The Guardian‎:The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or it will become extinct, Stephen Hawking warned today.", "The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom. \n1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only:\nAround the time of my parents' divorce, I learned that reading could also give me space.\n2008, Jimmy Treigle, Walking on Water\n\"I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not; but right now I need my space.\"" ] }, { "mean": "(heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.", "submean": [ "A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. \n1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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.\n2000, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender\nThe street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard.\n2012 July 16, Charlotte Higgins, “Tate Modern unlocks Tanks – and introduces live art into mainstream”, in The Guardian‎: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.", "(music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines. \n1849, John Pyke Hullah, translating Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing\nThe note next above Sol is La; La, therefore, stands in the 2nd space; Si, on the 3rd line, &c.\n1990, Sammy Nzioki, Music Time\nThe 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.", "A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap. \nSynonyms: blank, gap, (graphic design) whitespace\n1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation\nAccording to experts, a single line of text should rarely exceed about 50 characters (including letters and all the spaces between words).\n2005, Dr BR Kishore, Dynamic Business Letter Writing:\nIt should be typed a space below the salutation : Dear Sir, Subject : Replacement of defective items.", "(letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad). \nSynonyms: quad, quadrat\n1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., v.2, pp.240–1:\nIf it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thruſts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing thoſe Letters closer, he may have room to put in another Space or a Thin Space; which if he cannot do, and he finds the Space ſtand Looſe in the Form; he with the Point of his Bodkin picks the Space up and bows it a little; which bowing makes the Letters on each ſide of the Space keep their parallel diſtance; for by its Spring it thruſts the Letters that were cloſed with the end of the Bodkin to their adjunct Letters, that needed no cloſing.\n1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, p.110:\nHorizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.\n2005, Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd ed., p.91:\nOther larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.", "A gap; an empty place. \n2004, Harry M Benshoff (ed.), Queer Cinéma\nMainstream Hollywood would not cater to the taste for sexual sensation, which left a space for B-movies, including noir.\n2009, Barbara L. Lev, From Pink to Green\nA horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be.", "(geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.", "(countable, mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as \"points\". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space). \nFunctional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory.", "(countable, figuratively) A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour.\ninnovation in the browser space\n2019, Ryan Derousseau, The Everything Guide to Investing in Cryptocurrency , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 269: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.\n2020, Alexia Moncrieff, Expertise, Authority and Control, Cambridge University Press, page 187: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.", "Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room.\n2007, Jacob van Kokswijk, Digital Ego: Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Identity (page 88)\nCommunication in Internet chat spaces allows participants to communicate so freely in the relative safety of anonymity that they forget their privacy." ] } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:\nBut she as Fayes are wont, in priuie place / Did spend her dayes, and lov'd in forests wyld to space." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To set some distance apart.\nFaye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.\nThe cities are evenly spaced." }, { "mean": "To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.\nThis paragraph seems badly spaced." }, { "mean": "(transitive, science fiction) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.\nThe captain spaced the traitors.\n1952, Heinlein, Robert A., The Rolling Stones: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. \"\n1995, J. Michael Straczynski, And Now for a Word (Babylon 5), season 2, episode 15, spoken by Dr. Stephen Franklin (Richard Biggs):A lot of people make jokes about spacing somebody, about shoving somebody out an airlock. I don't think it's funny. Never will." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.\n1947 January 1, Kahn, Bernard I., “Command”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 38, number 5: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." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "" ] } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }