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      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English spanne, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spannō (“span, handbreadth”). Cognate with Dutch span, spanne, German Spanne. The sense “pair of horses” is probably from Old English ġespan, ġespann (“a joining; a fastening together; clasp; yoke”), from Proto-West Germanic . Cognate with Dutch gespan, German Gespann.",
        "From Middle English spannen, from Old English spannan, from Proto-Germanic *spannaną (“to stretch, span”). Cognate with German spannen, Dutch spannen.",
        "From Middle English span, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spann, first and third person singular preterit indicative of Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”)."
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          "name": "Noun",
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            {
              "mean": "The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length."
            },
            {
              "mean": "Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.\n\nHe has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes."
            },
            {
              "mean": "A portion of something by length; a subsequence."
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              "mean": "(architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports."
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              "mean": "(architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used."
            },
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              "mean": "(US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of something."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(computing) The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps."
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              "mean": "wingspan of a plane or bird"
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          "name": "Verb",
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              "mean": "(transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.\nThe suspension bridge spanned the canyon."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To extend through (a time period).\nThe parking lot spans three acres.\nThe novel spans three centuries."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.\nto span a space or distance; to span a cylinder"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(mathematics) To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(intransitive, US, dated) To be matched, as horses."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble."
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              "mean": "(archaic, now nonstandard) simple past tense of spin\n1593,  anonymous,  The Life and Death of Iacke Straw , Act I:But when Adam delued, and Eue ſpan,VVho was then a Gentleman?\n1891,  H Rider Haggard,  “How Hall of Lithdale Took Tidings to Iceland”, in  Eric Brighteyes, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 204:So they went in to where Gudruda sat spinning in the hall, singing as she span.\n2014 September 29,  Reuters,  “Five spectators in critical condition following stunt truck accident”, in  Irish Independent‎, archived from the original on 11 March 2016:Five spectators remained in critical condition on Monday, a day after they were injured when a giant pick-up truck span out of control during a stunt show in a Dutch town, killing three people, local officials said."
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