space
76
1.0
- noun
- /speɪs/
:
espacio en blanco
- In written documents, you should always leave a space between paragraphs for clarity.
- blank space
- white space
- space bar
And nowadays, I think more white space just means less words.
- And nowadays, I think more white space just means less words.
- And you said sometimes it's the space between the words.
- If I do command space, it opens up spotlight.
- Something weird happens where I'm getting extra ES or spaces when I'm using ES.
- So well, but that's like this goes to the white space between the words.
Examples
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Donna left too much space between letters but a narrow space between words.
Academic text (2015) -
Let's clear out a space right here.
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You want to leave a little space right there.
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And you have that little bit of space before the lead.
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What about the wall space that the students see on a daily basis?
Academic text (2015) -
"You can put it into the first space you can find, on the right."
Fiction book (1990) -
Also, there was a space for student comments at the bottom of the form.
Academic text (2008) -
Write the clues and leave a blank space for any information that is not given.
Academic text (1993) -
There'll be a blank space next to your name in my book.
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Very few applicators wrote comments about illness symptoms in the spaces provided in the questionnaire.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
148
1.0
An open space between two things, like a pass in hills
103
1.7
An empty space between words or lines in writing
74
2.5
A space between two things that keeps them apart
11
2.7
Space between things like plants or letters
3
1.6
An empty area for writing or filling in information
1
4.0
Characters like spaces, tabs, or newlines that separate words
A space between two words in writing or print
A very thin space used in printed text between letters or words
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
131
3.9
A large place built in space where people live and work for science
91
3.0
The area beyond Earth's air where there is almost no air and you find stars and planets
- Specialized
69
4.2
A reusable vehicle with wings that carries people and cargo to space and returns to Earth
- Specialized
15
5.7
A low narrow space under the main floor of a building that people use to reach pipes and wires
- Specialized
13
8.1
A four-dimensional framework that joins space and time where events happen
- Specialized
11
4.2
A machine sent into space without people to study planets and send information back
- Specialized
5
4.2
A small spacecraft that carries people in space and returns to Earth
- Specialized
4
3.5
A machine built to travel in outer space, like a spacecraft or satellite
- Specialized
4
6.0
The space between stars that contains gas, dust, and small particles
- Literature
3
6.3
Science fiction stories with big adventures and drama set in outer space between fighting empires
- Specialized
2
4.3
A protective head covering astronauts wear to breathe and stay safe in space
2
3.6
A United States government agency that runs the country's space program and studies air and space
- Specialized
1
9.9
A space where each axis shows one thing that can change to describe a system's state
- Specialized
1
8.2
The thin space between the two layers around the lungs that holds a little fluid
- Specialized
1
9.6
Space that exists by itself and stays the same no matter what is in it
- Specialized
1
7.6
A space with flat geometry and a fixed number of dimensions, like a flat plane or room
- Specialized
1
9.9
A mathematical space, often with infinitely many dimensions, where you measure distance and define right angles like in geometry
- Specialized
1
4.9
A spacecraft in orbit where people live and do science experiments
- Specialized
1
7.3
The space around the brain and spinal cord that holds the clear fluid that cushions them
- Specialized
A space with no air movement between layers that helps keep heat in or out
A former part of the United States Air Force that managed military space and missile operations
- Specialized
A way of showing data using a few important numbers to study or compare it
- Specialized
A group of points that follows simple rules used in geometry and other math
- Specialized
A set of points with a rule that gives a distance between any two points like on a map
- Specialized
A space between the two layers around the heart that holds fluid to let the heart move smoothly
- Specialized
A part of the hard drive used as extra memory when computer memory is full
- Specialized
A set of points with a rule that says which groups of points are open
- Specialized
Study of how outer space affects living things and search for life elsewhere
- Specialized
A three-dimensional pattern of points showing where tiny particles like atoms sit in a crystal
- Specialized
Physical laws do not change when left and right are swapped
How Wide
Surface Forms
Etymology
Space comes from the Latin word spatium, which meant 'room' or 'gap', and in writing it became the name for the small gap between words. So a typed 'space' is literally a little 'room' that separates words.