span

Examples

• All

• The centre span, right there, is 4,260 feet long.

  Saturday Night Fever (1977)

• If a bridge had more than one span, the first task was to lay the foundations of its Piers.

• And every steel span they bridge costs another.

  The Fighting Seabees (1944)

• - Down that way, under the bridge span.

  The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

• To the left, they could see the towering gray span of the George Washington Bridge.

  Fiction book (2001)

• This was the longest bridge, and the bridge with the longest spans between its Piers to that point in world history.

• The design and fortification of these emplacements took place over a three-year span prior to the actual invasion.

  Academic text (2009)

• Ahead, Leland spotted the iron bridge, a single span, the superstructure once painted black now rusting.

  Fiction book (1992)

• During that twenty-eight-year span, expectations are gradually eroded and hopes vanish.

  Academic text (1993)

• The centre span, right there, is 4,260 feet long.

Compounds

A

attention span

36 3.4

The time someone can focus on one thing without getting distracted

S

spick-and-span

3 4.2

Very clean and tidy, looking almost new

S

spic-and-span

3 4.9

Completely clean and tidy with no dust or dirt

S

span loading

• Specialized

8.5

The weight of a plane for each meter of wing length

Surface Forms

Etymology