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space1 /speɪs/ ●●● S1 W1 noun  1  empty area 空地方 [uncountable]SPACE/ROOM the amount of an area, room, container etc that is empty or available to be used 空间，空地方space for There’s space for a table and two chairs. 能放得下一张桌子和两把椅子。 How much space is there on each disk? 每张磁盘有多大容量？more/less/enough space Now that we’ve got three kids, it’d be nice to have a bit more space. 我们有三个孩子，地方能再大一点就好了。space to do something He had plenty of space to study. 他学习的地方很大。 The hedge takes up too much space. 这树篱占了太多的地方。sense/feeling of space (=the feeling that a place is large and empty, so you can move around easily) 空间宽大的感觉 In small homes, a single colour scheme can create a sense of space. 面积小的住宅采用单一色彩，可以产生一种空间感。2  area for particular purpose 有特定用途的地方 [countable, uncountable]SPACE/GAP an area, especially one used for a particular purpose 〔尤指有特定用途的〕空位，处所 a supermarket with 700 free parking spaces 有 700 个免费停车位的超级市场storage/cupboard/shelf space We really do need more storage space. 我们确实需要更多的储存空间。 the factory’s floor space (=the size of the available floor area) 这家工厂的楼层面积3  between things 在物体之间 [countable]SPACE/GAP an empty place between two things, or between two parts of something 〔两物或某物两部分之间的〕空当，空隙，空地方 SYN gapspace between the space between the house and the garage 房屋和车库之间的空地 There was an empty space where the flowers had been. 以前种花的地方有一块空地。► see thesaurus at hole4  outside the Earth 地球外层空间 [uncountable]HATTS the area beyond the Earth where the stars and planets are 太空in/into space Who was the first American in space? 第一个进入太空的美国人是谁？ creatures from outer space (=far away in space) 来自外太空的生物space travel/research/programme/exploration the history of space travel 太空旅行的历史n GrammarDon’t say ‘the space’ in this meaning. You say: One day people will live in space. ✗Don’t say: One day people will live in the space. 5  where things exist 物体所处的位置 [uncountable]HPAREA all of the area in which everything exists, and in which everything has a position or direction 空间 the exact point in space where two lines meet 两条线在空间中的确切交点 how people of other cultures think about time and space 其他文化背景下的人对时空的概念6  time 时间 a) in/within the space of somethingPERIOD OF TIME within a particular period of time 在一段…的时间里，在…期间 Mandy had four children in the space of four years. 曼迪在四年的时间里生了四个孩子。 b) a short space of time a short period of time 短短的一段时间 They achieved a lot in a short space of time. 他们在短短的时间里取得了很大的成就。7  empty land 空地 [countable, uncountable]AREA land, or an area of land that has not been built on 〔尚无建筑物的〕空地 a pleasant town centre with plenty of open space 开阔宜人的市中心 the wide open spaces of the prairies 大草原的辽阔 the loss of green space in cities 城市里绿色地带的减少8  freedom 自由 [uncountable]FREE TO DO WHAT YOU WANT the freedom to do what you want or do things on your own, especially in a relationship with someone else 〔个人的〕生活空间，个人自由〔尤指在与别人的关系里〕 We give each other space in our marriage. 我们在婚姻生活中给予对方自由空间。 She needed time and space to sort out her life. 她需要时间和私人空间来理顺自己的生活。9  in writing 在书写方面 [countable] a) EMPTYan empty area between written or printed words, lines etc 〔字、行等之间的〕间隔，空格 Leave a space after each number. 每个数字后面空一格。 b) SPACE/GAPthe width of a typed letter of the alphabet 〔打字机打出的〕一个字母的宽度，格 The word ‘the’ takes up three spaces. 这个词占三格。 c) EMPTYa place provided for you to write your name or other information on a document, piece of paper etc 〔文件、纸张上等预留的〕空白处 Please write any comments in the space provided. 请把意见写在预留的空白处。10  in a report/book 在报道/书中 [uncountable]TCN the amount of space in a newspaper, magazine, or book that is used for a particular subject 〔报纸或书刊中某一主题占用的〕篇幅 The story got very little space in the national newspapers. 这则报道在全国性报纸上所占的篇幅很小。11. look/stare/gaze into space LOOK ATto look straight in front of you without looking at anything in particular, usually because you are thinking 〔通常因正在思考而〕凝视前方，茫然直视 → breathing space, personal space, → waste of space at waste1(5), → watch this space at watch1(11) COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 3: an empty place between two things, or between two parts of something 〔两物或某物两部分之间的〕空当，空隙，空地方adjectivessmall 很小的空间There was only a small space between the car and the wall. 车和墙之间只有很小的空间。narrow 狭窄的空间Nathan stood in the doorway, filling the narrow space. 内森站立门道里,占满了狭小的空间。a confined/enclosed space (=small and enclosed) 狭小密闭的空间It was difficult being together in such a confined space. 一起待在这么局促的空间里很难受。an empty space 空的地方nAnother day we returned to find an empty space where the TV should have been.a blank space (=on a page, wall etc) 〔页面上、墙上等的〕空白nWrite your refund request in the blank space on Line 9.verbsclear/make a space 清理出一块地方Jack cleared a space for his newspaper on the table. 杰克在桌上清理出一块地方放他的报纸。leave a space 留出空白Leave a space for the title at the top. 在页端留出空白写题目。fit in/into a space 放入某个空间Decide what kind of table and chairs will fit best into the space. 想好什么样的桌子和椅子放进这个空间最合适。n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 4: the area beyond the Earth where the stars and planets are 太空adjectivesouter space (=areas a long way from the Earth)Meteorites are rocks from outer space.deep space (=areas a very long way from the Earth)The probe will continue its journey into deep space.space + NOUNspace travelWhat will space travel be like in the future?space explorationThey are developing robots that can be used for space exploration.space researchThe institute is a world leader in space research.a space programme British English, a space program American EnglishThis technology was originally developed by the American space program.phrasesthe far/furthest/vast reaches of space (=the far, furthest etc areas of space)Light takes time to travel across the vast reaches of space.

Examples from the Corpus

space• space exploration• Could you find me a space to store these boxes in?• It's a good idea if you can organise a space for each cat to call its own.• In Judaism, God is not restricted by time and space.• Circulation space for vehicles should be reduced in favour of pedestrians and cyclists, with public transport benefiting from this and other favourable measures.• The new Computer Desk looks like a big, traditional desk yet features concealing spaces for electronic components.• Because each film will take up a tremendous amount of computer disk space, only one will be available at a time.• I couldn't find an empty space in the car park.• The air of empty spaces still lingered around her.• The students were told to fill in the empty spaces with suitable adjectives.• The city would be unbearable in the summer without its green spaces.• Plant cells contain liquid in spaces called vacuoles.• Now calculate the exact position in space where the two lines meet.• The story got very little space in the major newspapers.• Tens of thousands of acres of farmland are swallowed up each year by developers seeking living space for the city's fast-growing population.• I wish we had more space in our office.• Most strikingly, the Daily Mirror almost halved its public-affairs coverage as a proportion of space in 1937 compared with 1927.• London's parks and open spaces• For this, it had to be given lungs, in the shape of open spaces, squares, parks and gardens.• the wide open spaces of the American West• a parking space• Do you want me to go home and give you some space?• Our apartment is small, and doesn't have much storage space.• The children hid in the space between the wall and the sofa.• The cat was in the space between the refrigerator and the wall.• The space between the old building and the Morgan mansion has been converted into a marble-paved court, with plantings and a fountain.• Inspectors may have to climb ladders or many flights of stairs, or may have to crawl around in tight spaces.• Be sure to put two spaces between sentences.sense/feeling of space• In a busy home a cool, understated colour scheme is a sure way of creating a feeling of space.• Downstairs the bar's lay-out has been cleverly designed soas to lend a feeling of space without losing a certain cosiness.• Wooden balconies jutted out from the upper storeys, giving the plaza not only a feeling of space but of intimacy.• Staples has a reedy, careworn voice that is oddly uplifting, and his music has a country sense of space.• There's a similar sense of humour and a dissimilar sense of space.• There is a great sense of space and elegance amidst the beautiful gardens, churches and palaces.• The sense of space is an illusion.floor space• As large a group as can fit has gathered in the available floor space to dance.• Newsagents across the country had cleared extra floor space for the 60,000 additional copies of the paper.• How did mall stores battle back, saddled with higher rents, less floor space and lower volume than their competitors?• An internal ramp of the maximum permitted gradient would take up too much floor space in the small shop.• Each speaker requires slightly more than a square foot of floor space and weighs 55 pounds.• There was only I m of floor space in front of the ascent engine cover.• By joining with Strawberries, Bloomberg said he gets four times the floor space for roughly the same occupancy costs.space travel/research/programme/exploration• A space programme was relevant to delivering bombs, as well as to hoisting Intelligence satellites.• He became irregular in his sobriety and would launch into disconnected, hortatory speeches about such matters as space exploration.• Should he have gone into space research after all?• At first, this form of space travel seemed possible.• Making that decision, alas, is an imperfect art, upon which the future of space exploration has long rested.• There is no doubt that the inhabitants once possessed space travel.• Fortunately President Johnson was possibly an even more passionate supporter of the space programme.time and space• I saw clouds passing swiftly by and I sensed my own movement in another time and space.• This reality is beyond time and space and every limitation, and therefore beyond human thought itself.• One thing was clear: time could have neither beginning nor end, time and space were eternal.• For the legal process demands that incidents and occurrences be ideally fixed in time and space.• It allows the study of a rapid societal development limited in time and space within very narrow boundaries.• There clearly are standard systems for locating points in time and space.• Despite frequently pulling 10 men behind the ball, they allowed Arsenal too much time and space.• You learn to control your time and space.green space• We will encourage more parks, gardens and green spaces.• The refinery's 175 hectares will be replaced by areas of parks and green spaces.• The purpose of the surveys is to expose consensus and conflicts about popular values for green spaces close to the city.• Other goals that were achieved included a vast increase in green space and a major expansion of the community college system.• Fewer still would argue that people did not need green spaces within their communities.• Distant trucks coming at us looked slow until they got parallel to us across the green space.• I liked the green spaces of Nam, too.• The gardens are a welcome green space within the bustling Town.needed ... space• She had thought Carolyn needed a space in which to pull herself together, not to crack up.• In 1724 the University Garden needed more space and Boerhaave used his newly purchased country estate at nearby Oud-Poelgeest as an extension.• Temporary additional shelving was installed in the periodicals gallery to provide some much needed space for growth.• Making love was all very well, pleasant and soporific if not exactly ecstatic, but afterwards ... she needed her space.• Her lover said she needed time and space to rethink her parameters.• She needed space and time to think, time to sort out this mess of mixed emotions.• Nearly half of the needed spaces could be added through renovations to existing public rest areas, he said.• We needed the added space for the contract work we do.got ... space• Nate, Gotler, Connors, and Banjo each got a ten-foot space along the other side.• But how many of us have got the space?• Now I got gaps and spaces!• He says it's got no space but it's fun.• They've got time and space to develop and be different.space2 ●●○ (also space out) verb  1  [transitive always + adverb/preposition]SPACE/GAP to arrange objects or events so that they have equal spaces or periods of time between them 将…均匀地隔开 They used three microphones spaced several yards apart. 他们用了三个麦克风，相互间隔几码的距离。 Try to space out your classes and study in between. 设法将上课时间排开，插空进行温习。be evenly spaced (=with equal spaces) 间隔均匀 For security, use three evenly spaced bolts per post. 为了安全起见，每根杆子上要间距均匀地使用三个螺栓。2  [intransitive] informal to stop paying attention and just look in front of you without thinking, especially because you are bored or have taken drugs 〔尤指因无聊或吸毒后〕变得昏昏沉沉，瞪着眼发呆 I completely spaced out during the lecture. 我听讲座时完全处于精神恍惚的状态。 → spaced out→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

space• These ideal launch times are naturally spaced about 25. 6 months apart in time.• Several low rise hotels, backed by quiet citrus groves, are spaced around the half mile bay.• evenly spaced bulbs on the tunnel's inside walls• Particularly suitable for a woman who is spacing her pregnancies or who has completed her family, and for older women.• He saw no fire suppression, but scant brush and ample spacing of pines where wildfires regularly moved through the forests.• The pleats can be spaced out if preferred, needing approximately two and a half times fullness.• The three injections are spaced several months apart.• The pockets in the perfect grey limestone became smaller and more spaced, the footholds doubtful, sloping smears.be evenly spaced• Such regular joint patterns appear to develop when the centres of contraction are evenly spaced.From Longman Business Dictionaryspacespace /speɪs/ noun1[uncountable] the area or amount of room in a newspaper, magazine etc that is used for a particular subject → advertising space → print space2[countable, uncountable]PROPERTY land or an area of land that has not been built uponIt has an attractive town centre with lots of open spaces. → incubator spaceOrigin space1 (1200-1300) Old French espace, from Latin spatium “area, room, length of space or time”

space1 noun →n GRAMMAR1 →COLLOCATIONS1
→n COLLOCATIONS2space2 verbLDOCE OnlineChinese  

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space¹ S1 W1 /speɪs/ noun1.  EMPTY AREA  [uncountable] the amount of an area, room, container etc that is empty or available to be used
    space for
    There’s space for a table and two chairs.
    How much space is there on each disk?
    more/less/enough space
    Now that we’ve got three kids, it’d be nice to have a bit more space.
    space to do something
    He had plenty of space to study.
    The hedge takes up too much space.
    sense/feeling of space (=the feeling that a place is large and empty, so you can move around easily)
    In small homes, a single colour scheme can create a sense of space.
2.  AREA FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE  [uncountable and countable] an area, especially one used for a particular purpose:
    a supermarket with 700 free parking spaces
    storage/cupboard/shelf space
    We really do need more storage space.
    the factory’s floor space (=the size of the available floor area)
3.  BETWEEN THINGS  [countable] an empty place between two things, or between two parts of something
   SYN  gap
    space between
    the space between the house and the garage
    There was an empty space where the flowers had been.
4.  OUTSIDE THE EARTH  [uncountable] the area beyond the Earth where the stars and planets are
    in/into space
    Who was the first American in space?
    creatures from outer space (=far away in space)
    space travel/research/programme/exploration
    the history of space travel
5.  WHERE THINGS EXIST  [uncountable] all of the area in which everything exists, and in which everything has a position or direction:
    the exact point in space where two lines meet
    how people of other cultures think about time and space
6.  TIME
  a. in/within the space of something within a particular period of time:
    Mandy had four children in the space of four years.
  b. a short space of time a short period of time:
    They achieved a lot in a short space of time.
7.  EMPTY LAND  [uncountable and countable] land, or an area of land that has not been built on:
    a pleasant town centre with plenty of open space
    the wide open spaces of the prairies
    the loss of green space in cities
8.  FREEDOM  [uncountable] the freedom to do what you want or do things on your own, especially in a relationship with someone else:
    We give each other space in our marriage.
    She needed time and space to sort out her life.
9.  IN WRITING  [countable]
  a. an empty area between written or printed words, lines etc:
    Leave a space after each number.
  b. the width of a typed letter of the alphabet:
    The word ‘the’ takes up three spaces.
  c. a place provided for you to write your name or other information on a document, piece of paper etc:
    Please write any comments in the space provided.
10.  IN A REPORT/BOOK  [uncountable] the amount of space in a newspaper, magazine, or book that is used for a particular subject:
    The story got very little space in the national newspapers.
11. look/stare/gaze into space to look straight in front of you without looking at anything in particular, usually because you are thinking
⇨ breathing space, personal space, ⇨ waste of space at waste¹(5), ⇨ watch this space at watch¹(11)
     

COLLOCATIONS

(for Meaning 3)

■ adjectives
   ▪ small There was only a small space between the car and the wall.
   ▪ narrow Nathan stood in the doorway, filling the narrow space.
   ▪ a confined/enclosed space (=small and enclosed) It was difficult being together in such a confined space.
   ▪ an empty space Another day we returned to find an empty space where the TV should have been.
   ▪ a blank space (=on a page, wall etc) Write your refund request in the blank space on Line 9.
■ verbs
   ▪ clear/make a space Jack cleared a space for his newspaper on the table.
   ▪ leave a space Leave a space for the title at the top.
   ▪ fit in/into a space Decide what kind of table and chairs will fit best into the space.
     

COLLOCATIONS

(for Meaning 4)

■ adjectives
   ▪ outer space (=areas a long way from the Earth) Meteorites are rocks from outer space.
   ▪ deep space (=areas a very long way from the Earth) The probe will continue its journey into deep space.
■ space + NOUN
   ▪ space travel What will space travel be like in the future?
   ▪ space exploration They are developing robots that can be used for space exploration.
   ▪ space research The institute is a world leader in space research.
   ▪ a space programme British English, a space program American English This technology was originally developed by the American space program.
■ phrases
   ▪ the far/furthest/vast reaches of space (=the far, furthest etc areas of space) Light takes time to travel across the vast reaches of space.
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ hole an empty space in the surface of something, which sometimes goes all the way through it: A fox had dug a hole under our fence. | Rain was coming in through a hole in the roof.
   ▪ space an empty area between two things, into which you can put something: Are there any empty spaces on the bookshelf? | a parking space
   ▪ gap an empty area between two things or two parts of something, especially one that should not be there: He has a gap between his two front teeth. | I squeezed through a gap in the hedge.
   ▪ opening a hole that something can pass through or that you can see through, especially at the entrance of something: The train disappeared into the dark opening of the tunnel. | I looked through the narrow opening in the wall.
   ▪ leak a small hole where something has been damaged or broken that lets liquid or gas flow in or out: a leak in the pipe | The plumber's coming to repair the leak.
   ▪ puncture especially British English a small hole in a tyre through which air escapes: My bike's got a puncture.
   ▪ crack a very narrow space between two things or two parts of something: The snake slid into a crack in the rock. | She was peering through the crack in the curtains.
   ▪ slot a straight narrow hole that you put a particular type of object into: You have to put a coin in the slot before you dial the number. | A small disk fits into a slot in the camera.
   ▪ crater a round hole in the ground made by an explosion or by a large object hitting it hard: a volcanic crater | The meteor left a crater over five miles wide. | the craters on the moon

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space² (also space out) verb
1. [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to arrange objects or events so that they have equal spaces or periods of time between them:
    They used three microphones spaced several yards apart.
    Try to space out your classes and study in between.
    be evenly spaced (=with equal spaces)
    For security, use three evenly spaced bolts per post.
2. [intransitive] informal to stop paying attention and just look in front of you without thinking, especially because you are bored or have taken drugs:
    I completely spaced out during the lecture.
⇨ spaced out