space
/speɪs/ verbo C1- To set some distance apart. · Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.· The cities are evenly spaced.
- To insert or utilise spaces in a written text. · This paragraph seems badly spaced.
- To space out (become distracted, lose focus).
- To kill (someone) by ejection into outer space, usually without a space suit. · The captain spaced the traitors.
- To travel into and through outer space.
He/she/it spaces · Pasado spaced · Participio pasado spaced · Forma en -ing spacing
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- space
- He/she/it
- spaces
- Pasado
- spaced
- Participio pasado
- spaced
- Forma en -ing
- spacing
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
He saw a congested flood of wagons, trucks, cabs, vans and street cars filling the vast space where Broadway, Sixth Avenue and Thirty-fourth street cross one another as a twenty-six inch maiden fills her twenty-two inch girdle.
Gently as we moved, however, the old floor must have creaked under our feet, for the head of our American, peering anxiously round, emerged suddenly from the open space.
Across this bare space there was scrawled in blood-red letters a single word—
Sometimes he would fall into long reveries, sigh heavily and involuntarily, then suddenly rise, and, with folded arms, begin pacing the confined space of his dungeon.
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