space /ˈspes/
 空白,間隔(vt.)隔開,分隔(vi.)留間隔空白,位置,空間,距離,太空


 space /ˈspes/ 名詞



 space
 半空格


 space
 空位字元 SP


 space
 空間 空格 太空 間隔


 Space n.
 1. Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.
    Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion.   --Locke.
 2. Place, having more or less extension; room.
 They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare;
 Long had he no space to dwell [in].   --R. of Brunne.
    While I have time and space.   --Chaucer.
 3. A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.
    Put a space betwixt drove and drove.   --Gen. xxxii. 16.
 4. Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time. “Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space.”
    Nine times the space that measures day and night.   --Milton.
    God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance.   --Tillotson.
 5. A short time; a while. [R.] “To stay your deadly strife a space.”
 6. Walk; track; path; course. [Obs.]
 This ilke [same] monk let old things pace,
 And held after the new world the space.   --Chaucer.
 7. Print. (a) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters. (b) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books, on a computer screen, etc.
 Note: ☞ Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line.
 8. Mus. One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.
 Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc.
 deep space, the part of outer space which is beyond the limits of the solar system.
 Space line Print., a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for other purposes; a lead. --Hansard.
 Space rule Print., a fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter.


 Space, v. i.  To walk; to rove; to roam. [Obs.]
    And loved in forests wild to space.   --Spenser.


 Space, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spaced p. pr. & vb. n. Spacong ]  Print. To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.

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 space
      n 1: the unlimited expanse in which everything is located; "they
           tested his ability to locate objects in space"
      2: an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things);
         "the architect left space in front of the building"; "they
         stopped at an open space in the jungle"; "the space
         between his teeth"
      3: an area reserved for some particular purpose; "the
         laboratory's floor space"
      4: a blank character used to separate successive words in
         writing or printing; "he said the space is the most
         important character in the alphabet" [syn: blank]
      5: the interval between two times; "the distance from birth to
         death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes" [syn:
          distance]
      6: a blank area; "write your name in the space provided" [syn:
         blank space, place]
      7: one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a
         musical staff; "the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E"
      8: (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for
         spacing between words [syn: quad]
      v : place at intervals; "Space the interviews so that you have
          some time between the different candidates"