space

Forms

1.Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
- They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working.
- Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.
- "I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not; but right now I need my space."
2.Of time.
- The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so.
- Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.
- I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.
3.A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
- Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.
- A horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be.
- Functional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory.

1.To set some distance apart.
- Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.
- The cities are evenly spaced.
2.To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
- This paragraph seems badly spaced.
3.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..
4.To kill (someone) by ejection into outer space, usually without a space suit.
- A lot of people make jokes about spacing somebody, about shoving somebody out an airlock. I don't think it's funny. Never will.
- The captain spaced the traitors.

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Etymology tree

Latin spatiumbor.

Old French espace

Anglo-Norman spacebor.

Middle English space

English space