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These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern the access or use by you, an individual, of applications, websites, content, products, and services (the “Services”) made available by Uber India Systems Private Limited (“Uber”) a private limited liability company established in India , having its registered office at Regus Business Platinum Centre Pvt. Ltd., Level 13, Platinum Techno Park, Plot No.17/18, Sec-30A, Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra-400705 along with office in other states with Corporate Identification Number U74120MH2013FTC247008 . PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICES. Your access and use of the Services constitutes your agreement to be bound by these Terms, which establishes a contractual relationship between you and Uber. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use the Services. These Terms expressly supersede prior agreements or arrangements with you. Uber may immediately terminate these Terms or any Services with respect to you, or generally cease offering or deny access to the Services or any portion thereof, at any time for any reason. Supplemental terms may apply to certain Services, such as policies for a particular event, activity or promotion, and such supplemental terms will be disclosed to you in connection with the applicable Services. Supplemental terms are in addition to, and shall be deemed a part of, the Terms for the purposes of the applicable Services. Supplemental terms shall prevail over these Terms in the event of a conflict with respect to the applicable Services. Uber may amend the Terms related to the Services from time to time. Amendments will be effective upon Uber’s posting of such updated Terms at this location or the amended policies or supplemental terms on the applicable Service. Your continued access or use of the Services after such posting constitutes your consent to be bound by the Terms, as amended. Our collection and use of personal information in connection with the Services is as provided in Uber’s Privacy Policy located at Legal | Uber. Uber may provide to a claims processor or an insurer any necessary information (including your contact information) if there is a complaint, dispute or conflict, which may include an accident, involving you and a Third Party Provider (including a transportation network company driver) and such information or data is necessary to resolve the complaint, dispute or conflict.2. THE SERVICESThe Services constitute a technology platform that enables users of Uber’s mobile applications or websites provided as part of the Services (each, an “Application”) to arrange and schedule transportation and/or logistics services with independent third party providers of such services, including independent third party transportation providers and independent third party logistics providers under agreement with Uber or certain of Uber’s affiliates (“Third Party Providers”). Unless otherwise agreed by Uber in a separate written agreement with you, the Services are made available solely for your personal, noncommercial use. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT UBER DOES NOT PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION OR LOGISTICS SERVICES OR FUNCTION AS A TRANSPORTATION CARRIER AND THAT ALL SUCH TRANSPORTATION OR LOGISTICS SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY CONTRACTORS WHO ARE NOT EMPLOYED BY UBER OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES.LICENSE.Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Uber grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, revocable, non-transferable license to: (i) access and use the Applications on your personal device solely in connection with your use of the Services; and (ii) access and use any content, information and related materials that may be made available through the Services, in each case solely for your personal, noncommercial use. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by Uber and Uber’s licensors.RESTRICTIONS.You may not: (i) remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices from any portion of the Services; (ii) reproduce, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, lease, sell, resell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast or otherwise exploit the Services except as expressly permitted by Uber; (iii) decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble the Services except as may be permitted by applicable law; (iv) link to, mirror or frame any portion of the Services; (v) cause or launch any programs or scripts for the purpose of scraping, indexing, surveying, or otherwise data mining any portion of the Services or unduly burdening or hindering the operation and/or functionality of any aspect of the Services; or (vi) attempt to gain unauthorized access to or impair any aspect of the Services or its related systems or networks.PROVISION OF THE SERVICES.You acknowledge that portions of the Services may be made available under Uber’s various brands or request options associated with transportation or logistics, including the transportation request brands currently referred to as “Uber,” “UberGo”, “UberPremier”, “UberAuto”, “UberHire”, “UberMoto”, “uberPOP,” “uberX,” “uberXL,” “UberBLACK,” “UberSUV,” “UberBERLINE,” “UberVAN,” “UberEXEC,” and “UberLUX” and the logistics request brands currently referred to as “UberRUSH,” “UberFRESH” and “UberEATS”. You also acknowledge that the Services may be made available under such brands or request options by or in connection with: (i) certain of Uber’s subsidiaries and affiliates; or (ii) independent Third Party Providers, including transportation network company drivers, transportation charter permit holders or holders of similar transportation permits, authorizations or licenses.THIRD PARTY SERVICES AND CONTENT.The Services may be made available or accessed in connection with third party services and content (including advertising) that Uber does not control. You acknowledge that different terms of use and privacy policies may apply to your use of such third party services and content. Uber does not endorse such third party services and content and in no event shall Uber be responsible or liable for any products or services of such third party providers. Additionally, Apple Inc., Google, Inc., Microsoft Corporation or BlackBerry Limited and/or their applicable international subsidiaries and affiliates will be third-party beneficiaries to this contract if you access the Services using Applications developed for Apple iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows, or Blackberry-powered mobile devices, respectively. These third party beneficiaries are not parties to this contract and are not responsible for the provision or support of the Services in any manner. Your access to the Services using these devices is subject to terms set forth in the applicable third party beneficiary’s terms of service. OWNERSHIP. The Services and all rights therein are and shall remain Uber’s property or the property of Uber’s licensors. Neither these Terms nor your use of the Services convey or grant to you any rights: (i) in or related to the Services except for the limited license granted above; or (ii) to use or reference in any manner Uber’s company names, logos, product and service names, trademarks or services marks or those of Uber’s licensors.3. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICESUSER ACCOUNTS.In order to use most aspects of the Services, you must register for and maintain an active personal user Services account (“Account”). You must be at least 18 years of age, or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction (if different than 18), to obtain an Account. Account registration requires you to submit to Uber certain personal information, such as your name, address, mobile phone number and age, as well as at least one valid payment method (either a credit card or accepted payment partner). You agree to maintain accurate, complete, and up-to-date information in your Account. Your failure to maintain accurate, complete, and up-to-date Account information, including having an invalid or expired payment method on file, may result in your inability to access and use the Services or Uber’s termination of these Terms with you. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your Account, and you agree to maintain the security and secrecy of your Account username and password at all times. Unless otherwise permitted by Uber in writing, you may only possess one Account.USER REQUIREMENTS AND CONDUCT.The Service is not available for use by persons under the age of 18. You may not authorize third parties to use your Account, and you may not allow persons under the age of 18 to receive transportation or logistics services from Third Party Providers unless they are accompanied by you. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your Account to any other person or entity. You agree to comply with all applicable laws when using the Services, and you may only use the Services for lawful purposes (e.g., no transport of unlawful or hazardous materials). You will not, in your use of the Services, cause nuisance, annoyance, inconvenience, or property damage, whether to the Third Party Provider or any other party. In certain instances you may be asked to provide proof of identity to access or use the Services, and you agree that you may be denied access to or use of the Services if you refuse to provide proof of identity.TEXT MESSAGING.By creating an Account, you agree that the Services may send you informational text (SMS) messages as part of the normal business operation of your use of the Services. You may opt-out of receiving text (SMS) messages from Uber at any time by sending an email to [email protected] indicating that you no longer wish to receive such messages, along with the phone number of the mobile device receiving the messages. You acknowledge that opting out of receiving text (SMS) messages may impact your use of the Services.PROMOTIONAL CODES.Uber may, in Uber’s sole discretion, create promotional codes that may be redeemed for Account credit, or other features or benefits related to the Services and/or a Third Party Provider’s services, subject to any additional terms that Uber establishes on a per promotional code basis (“Promo Codes”). You agree that Promo Codes: (i) must be used for the intended audience and purpose, and in a lawful manner; (ii) may not be duplicated, sold or transferred in any manner, or made available to the general public (whether posted to a public form or otherwise), unless expressly permitted by Uber; (iii) may be disabled by Uber at any time for any reason without liability to Uber; (iv) may only be used pursuant to the specific terms that Uber establishes for such Promo Code; (v) are not valid for cash; and (vi) may expire prior to your use. Uber reserves the right to withhold or deduct credits or other features or benefits obtained through the use of Promo Codes by you or any other user in the event that Uber determines or believes that the use or redemption of the Promo Code was in error, fraudulent, illegal, or in violation of the applicable Promo Code terms or these Terms.USER PROVIDED CONTENT.Uber may, in Uber’s sole discretion, permit you from time to time to submit, upload, publish or otherwise make available to Uber through the Services textual, audio, and/or visual content and information, including commentary and feedback related to the Services, initiation of support requests, and submission of entries for competitions and promotions (“User Content”). Any User Content provided by you remains your property. However, by providing User Content to Uber, you grant Uber a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferrable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, modify, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and otherwise exploit in any manner such User Content in all formats and distribution channels now known or hereafter devised (including in connection with the Services and Uber’s business and on third-party sites and services), without further notice to or consent from you, and without the requirement of payment to you or any other person or entity. You represent and warrant that: (i) you either are the sole and exclusive owner of all User Content or you have all rights, licenses, consents and releases necessary to grant Uber the license to the User Content as set forth above; and (ii) neither the User Content nor your submission, uploading, publishing or otherwise making available of such User Content nor Uber’s use of the User Content as permitted herein will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party’s intellectual property or proprietary rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation. You agree to not provide User Content that is defamatory, libelous, hateful, violent, obscene, pornographic, unlawful, or otherwise offensive, as determined by Uber in its sole discretion, whether or not such material may be protected by law. Uber may, but shall not be obligated to, review, monitor, or remove User Content, at Uber’s sole discretion and at any time and for any reason, without notice to you.NETWORK ACCESS AND DEVICES.You are responsible for obtaining the data network access necessary to use the Services. Your mobile network’s data and messaging rates and fees may apply if you access or use the Services from a wireless-enabled device and you shall be responsible for such rates and fees. You are responsible for acquiring and updating compatible hardware or devices necessary to access and use the Services and Applications and any updates thereto. Uber does not guarantee that the Services, or any portion thereof, will function on any particular hardware or devices. In addition, the Services may be subject to malfunctions and delays inherent in the use of the Internet and electronic communications.4. PAYMENTYou understand that use of the Services may result in charges to you for the services or goods you receive from a Third Party Provider (“Charges ”). After you have received services or goods obtained through your use of the Service, Uber will facilitate your payment of the applicable Charges on behalf of the Third Party Provider as such Third Party Provider’s limited payment collection agent. Payment of the Charges in such manner shall be considered the same as payment made directly by you to the Third Party Provider. Charges will be inclusive of applicable taxes where required by law. Uber reserves the right to charge you an additional amount for pickup facility provided at various places along with applicable taxes (including but not limited to GST). Charges paid by you are final and non-refundable, unless otherwise determined by Uber. You retain the right to request lower Charges from a Third Party Provider for services or goods received by you from such Third Party Provider at the time you receive such services or goods. Uber will respond accordingly to any request from a Third Party Provider to modify the Charges for a particular service or good. All Charges are due immediately and payment will be facilitated by Uber using the preferred payment method designated in your Account, after which Uber will send you a receipt by email. If your primary Account payment method is determined to be expired, invalid or otherwise not able to be charged, you agree that Uber may, as the Third Party Provider’s limited payment collection agent, use a secondary payment method in your Account, if available. As between you and Uber, Uber reserves the right to establish, remove and/or revise Charges for any or all services or goods obtained through the use of the Services at any time in Uber’s sole discretion. Further, you acknowledge and agree that Charges applicable in certain geographical areas may increase substantially during times of high demand. Uber will use reasonable efforts to inform you of Charges that may apply, provided that you will be responsible for Charges incurred under your Account regardless of your awareness of such Charges or the amounts thereof. Uber may from time to time provide certain users with promotional offers, subscriptions and discounts that may result in different amounts charged for the same or similar services or goods obtained through the use of the Services, and you agree that such promotional offers,subscriptions and discounts, unless also made available to you, shall have no bearing on your use of the Services or the Charges applied to you. You may elect to cancel your request for services or goods from a Third Party Provider at any time prior to such Third Party Provider’s arrival, in which case you may be charged a cancellation fee. This payment structure is intended to fully compensate the Third Party Provider for the services or goods provided. Except with respect to taxicab transportation services requested through the Application, Uber does not designate any portion of your payment as a tip or gratuity to the Third Party Provider. Any representation by Uber (on Uber’s website, in the Application, or in Uber’s marketing materials) to the effect that tipping is “voluntary,” “not required,” and/or “included” in the payments you make for services or goods provided is not intended to suggest that Uber provides any additional amounts, beyond those described above, to the Third Party Provider. You understand and agree that, while you are free to provide additional payment as a gratuity to any Third Party Provider who provides you with services or goods obtained through the Service, you are under no obligation to do so. Gratuities are voluntary. After you have received services or goods obtained through the Service, you will have the opportunity to rate your experience and leave additional feedback about your Third Party Provider.REPAIR OR CLEANING FEES.You shall be responsible for the cost of repair for damage to, or necessary cleaning of, Third Party Provider vehicles and property resulting from use of the Services under your Account in excess of normal “wear and tear” damages and necessary cleaning (“Repair or Cleaning”). In the event that a Third Party Provider reports the need for Repair or Cleaning, and such Repair or Cleaning request is verified by Uber in Uber’s reasonable discretion, Uber reserves the right to facilitate payment for the reasonable cost of such Repair or Cleaning on behalf of the Third Party Provider using your payment method designated in your Account. Such amounts will be transferred by Uber to the applicable Third Party Provider and are non-refundable.5. DISCLAIMERS; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY; INDEMNITY.DISCLAIMER.THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” UBER DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, NOT EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THESE TERMS, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN ADDITION, UBER MAKES NO REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR GUARANTEE REGARDING THE RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, QUALITY, SUITABILITY OR AVAILABILITY OF THE SERVICES OR ANY SERVICES OR GOODS REQUESTED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES, OR THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. UBER DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE QUALITY, SUITABILITY, SAFETY OR ABILITY OF THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS. YOU AGREE THAT THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, AND ANY SERVICE OR GOOD REQUESTED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, REMAINS SOLELY WITH YOU, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.UBER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE RELATED TO, IN CONNECTION WITH, OR OTHERWISE RESULTING FROM ANY USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF UBER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. UBER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, LIABILITY OR LOSSES ARISING OUT OF: (i) YOUR USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE SERVICES OR YOUR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES; OR (ii) ANY TRANSACTION OR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND ANY THIRD PARTY PROVIDER, EVEN IF UBER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. UBER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DELAY OR FAILURE IN PERFORMANCE RESULTING FROM CAUSES BEYOND UBER’S REASONABLE CONTROL. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIRD PARTY TRANSPORTATION PROVIDERS PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES REQUESTED THROUGH SOME REQUEST BRANDS MAY OFFER RIDESHARING OR PEER-TO-PEER TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AND MAY NOT BE PROFESSIONALLY LICENSED OR PERMITTED. IN NO EVENT SHALL UBER’S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES AND CAUSES OF ACTION EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED EUROS (€500). UBER’S SERVICES MAY BE USED BY YOU TO REQUEST AND SCHEDULE TRANSPORTATION, GOODS OR LOGISTICS SERVICES WITH THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS, BUT YOU AGREE THAT UBER HAS NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY TO YOU RELATED TO ANY TRANSPORTATION, GOODS OR LOGISTICS SERVICES PROVIDED TO YOU BY THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THESE TERMS. THE LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMER IN THIS SECTION 5 DO NOT PURPORT TO LIMIT LIABILITY OR ALTER YOUR RIGHTS AS A CONSUMER THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.INDEMNITY.You agree to indemnify and hold Uber and its officers, directors, employees and agents harmless from any and all claims, demands, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) arising out of or in connection with: (i) your use of the Services or services or goods obtained through your use of the Services; (ii) your breach or violation of any of these Terms; (iii) Uber’s use of your User Content; or (iv) your violation of the rights of any third party, including Third Party Providers.6. GOVERNING LAW; ARBITRATION.Except as otherwise set forth in these Terms, these Terms shall be exclusively governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. Any dispute, conflict, claim or controversy arising out of or broadly in connection with or relating to the Services or these Terms, including those relating to its validity, its construction or its enforceability (any “Dispute”) shall be first mandatorily submitted to mediation proceedings in terms of the Indian law. If such Dispute has not been settled within sixty (60) days after a request for mediation has been submitted under the Indian laws, such Dispute can be referred to and shall be exclusively and finally resolved by arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (“Act”). The Dispute shall be resolved by one (1) arbitrator to be appointed in accordance with the Act. The place of both mediation and arbitration shall be India. The language of the mediation and/or arbitration shall be English, unless you do not speak English, in which case the mediation and/or arbitration shall be conducted in both English and your native language. The existence and content of the mediation and arbitration proceedings, including documents and briefs submitted by the parties, any correspondence correspondence from the mediator, and correspondence, orders and awards issued by the sole arbitrator, shall remain strictly confidential and shall not be disclosed to any third party without the express written consent from the other party unless: (i) the disclosure to the third party is reasonably required in the context of conducting the mediation or arbitration proceedings; and (ii) the third party agrees unconditionally in writing to be bound by the confidentiality obligation stipulated herein.7. OTHER PROVISIONSCLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.Claims of copyright infringement should be sent to Uber’s designated agent. Please visit Uber’s web page at Legal | Uber for the designated address and additional information. NOTICE. Uber may give notice by means of a general notice on the Services, electronic mail to your email address in your Account, or by written communication sent to your address as set forth in your Account. You may give notice to Uber by written communication to Uber's address as mentioned above GENERAL. You may not assign or transfer these Terms in whole or in part without Uber’s prior written approval. You give your approval to Uber for it to assign or transfer these Terms in whole or in part, including to: (i) a subsidiary or affiliate; (ii) an acquirer of Uber’s equity, business or assets; or (iii) a successor by merger. No joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship exists between you, Uber or any Third Party Provider as a result of the contract between you and Uber or use of the Services. If any provision of these Terms is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, under any law, such provision or part thereof shall to that extent be deemed not to form part of these Terms but the legality, validity and enforceability of the other provisions in these Terms shall not be affected. In that event, the parties shall replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision or part thereof with a provision or part thereof that is legal, valid and enforceable and that has, to the greatest extent possible, a similar effect as the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision or part thereof, given the contents and purpose of these Terms. These Terms constitute the entire agreement and understanding of the parties with respect to its subject matter and replaces and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements or undertakings regarding such subject matter. In these Terms, the words “including” and “include” mean “including, but not limited to.”UBER GUIDELINES FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIESThe following guidelines are intended to inform law enforcement about the legal process for seeking records from Uber. These are merely guidelines, and this information may change at any time. For private party requests, including requests from civil litigants and criminal defendants, we recommend browsing Guidelines for Third Party Data Requests.WHAT IS UBER AND WHAT RECORDS DO WE HAVE?Uber is a technology company that has developed an app that connects users (riders) with driver partners who provide transportation to the user. Uber is not a transportation carrier, and does not employ any drivers. Users can use the Uber App to request transportation via their smartphone, the web, or via SMS. Uber users can choose from a variety of drivers available in his or her location. At the end of the ride, both the driver partner and user receive a copy of the fare receipt. More information about our services is available here. We store and maintain information as described in our Privacy Statements and our Terms of Use.WHAT TYPE OF LEGAL PROCESS DOES UBER REQUIRE BEFORE PRODUCING USER OR PARTNER INFORMATION?For U.S. Law Enforcement We require valid and sufficient legal process before we can disclose business records regarding partners, users, or trips. In most instances, we won’t be able to provide any information without a valid subpoena, court order, or search warrant. We accept law enforcement requests via email to [email protected] or via personal service through our corporate agent, National Registered Agents, Inc., 818 W. Seventh Street, Suite 930, Los Angeles, California 90017. Our acceptance of legal process does not waive any legal objections Uber may have and may raise in response to the request.For Non-U.S. Law Enforcement: We disclose business records only in accordance with our terms of service and applicable law. A valid U.S. court order (via mutual legal assistance treaty, mutual legal assistance agreement, or letter rogatory) may be required to compel disclosure of certain records. We accept non-US requests via email to [email protected] or via personal service to the following address: Uber B.V., Regus Business Platinum Centre Pvt. Ltd., Level 13, Platinum Techno Park, Plot No.17/18, Sec-30A, Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra-400705. Our acceptance of legal process does not waive any legal objections Uber B.V. may have and may raise in response to the request.WHAT FORM OF REQUESTS DOES UBER REQUIRE, AND HOW ARE REQUESTS PROCESSED? To respond to a request, we will need to receive the applicable process described above, as well as a valid return email address from an official government domain. We review each request for facial and substantive validity, and will reject requests that are not facially and substantively valid. Among other things, we require requests to be narrowly tailored to a legitimate law enforcement need and will reject overly broad, vague, or unduly burdensome requests. In order to make sure your Law Enforcement Request is valid and does not seek more information than necessary, we ask for the following: A sufficiently narrow/defined time period; A specific event or action that the subject took; A specific reference (i.e., you must uniquely identify a user or driver partner) We disclose data to law enforcement when we determine that we are required to do so by law. In those instances, we will search for and disclose data that we are reasonably able to locate and retrieve.HOW DOES UBER HANDLE EMERGENCY REQUESTS?We have a process for evaluating requests on an emergency basis where there is an emergency that involves protecting a user, driver partner, or third party or stopping illegal activity that poses an immediate threat of death or serious bodily harm. Requestors must submit an Emergency Request Form (which can be requested through [email protected]) that describes in detail the nature of the emergency, and we review these requests on a case-by-case basis. Law enforcement can submit an emergency request by emailing [email protected]. Please note that we will only review and respond to emergency requests from law enforcement, and will not respond to emergency requests sent to this address by non-law enforcement officials. Non-law enforcement officials aware of an emergency situation should immediately and directly contact local law enforcement officials.DOES UBER NOTIFY INDIVIDUALS OF A LAW ENFORCEMENT REQUEST FOR INFORMATION RELATING TO THEM?Yes, we may notify subjects before producing their information to law enforcement, unless we are prohibited by law from doing so, or in exceptional circumstances such as emergencies. Law enforcement officials who believe that notification would jeopardize an investigation should obtain an appropriate court order or other appropriate process establishing that notice is prohibited.DOES UBER PROVIDE A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION OR EXPERT TESTIMONY?We may provide a certification from our records custodian but are not generally able to provide in-person or expert witness testimony. Law enforcement officials with questions about these guidelines should email [email protected]. Please note that we will not respond to non-law enforcement inquiries received at this email address. For non-law enforcement inquiries, please see Guidelines for Third Party Data Requests.

Many years ago, I met regularly with a young woman to answer her questions about God. She had a masters degree in engineering and a PhD in economics and she was always at the top of her class. She was raised as a Buddhist and had many questions about the Christian God. I explained to her about how the Father loved us so much that his sent his son, Jesus, to die in our place, to pay the penalty for our sins. And that Jesus, upon his return to Heaven, sent us the Holy Spirit to comfort us and guide us and empower us until the return of Jesus when we would all join God in Heaven. I quoted her scriptures and even watched a movie about Jesus with her. She was attentive and interested but she did not give any indication that she wanted to receive Christ as her savior.One day I decided to ask her if she was ready to make a commitment to live for Jesus. Here was her reply, “Mike, I understand what you are telling me. I love the Father. I love Jesus. I love the Holy Spirit. And when I pray, I perceive the answers to my prayers along with a blessed warmth in my heart. I know that God is talking to me… but I don’t know if the voice I hear is of the Father, or Jesus, or the Holy Spirit. I really must know this. Please don’t pressure me when I am still not ready.”I was stunned. It had never occurred to me that the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit might have distinct voices. Of course they do. I was not even aware that they have different voices let alone different personalities; to me they were all lumped together as “God.” How well did I really know them? Not very well, I admitted to myself. Not long after this, the young woman gave her life to Christ and began her faith journey. I also began a new journey: I wanted to know God the Father; I wanted to know Jesus; and I wanted to know the Holy Spirit.That conversation happened twenty years ago and I have been pondering these things ever since… with some satisfaction. I’ll happily share some of the insights i’ve had concerning this with the disclaimer that they are personal insights rather than scholarly or theological — I’m not sure that it makes a lot of difference to some people — but for me, I much prefer the personal insights.In ways that seemed disconnected from my quest, I had come to recognize that there are three great loves that I longed to richly experience in my life: Father Love, Mother Love, and Romantic Love. I thought about these three kinds of love and how different they are, each one essential in its own way, and each imparted (or seemed to promise to impart) to me something that was missing and that I longed for all my life. I formed an idealized notion of each one that no human could live up to, but that reality did not dampen my sense of need. Eventually, it dawned on me that these three loves that I longed for were not human but divine, and somehow, distinctly represented by God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.My thoughts about Mother Love, Romantic Love, and Father Love as they relate to the trinity, did not evolve in an orderly or sequential manner and it was over the course of many years and much life experience and reflection that I began to see what appears to me now to be a simple and satisfying paradigm with which to view the distinct personages of the Godhead. I’ll relate my observations in the orderly way that I now view them, rather than the convoluted way that I arrived at them, or through the lens of my attempts to reconcile them with intellectual, scholarly views of the trinity.Jesus plainly told Nicodemus that he must be born again — spiritually in John chapter 3. So, if we must be born again, then we must also be reared again. Peter carries on the analogy, “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:” — 1 Peter 2:2 KJV. And there are more verses that carry on this line of thinking. But perhaps it’s much more than just a useful abstract analogy to get us inline with a theological set of doctrines. Suppose that God the Father, Abba Father, Daddy God, actually seeks a relationship with us as a loving father? And perhaps the other vital loves we yearn for also reflect the multifaceted yearnings of God? Let’s explore that thought!Since I was a young man, I have developed the habit of viewing complex things through the lens of a particular relational pattern. It’s the pattern of 7 in the Bible. It begins with the first sentence (which consists of 7 Hebrew words), carries on through the 7 days of creation, the seventy 7’s of the Daniel’s seventy weeks prophesy, on through the books into Revelation with the 7 letters to the 7 churches, and 7 seals & 7 vials. I won’t delve further into the patterns of 7 here, except to say that I found them profoundly illuminating as I began to search for the unique attributes of the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit and the unique attributes of Father Love, Mother Love, and Romantic Love. I wrote a brief Quora article about the pattern here: Michael Gailey's answer to What evidence is there that the Bible is real?In the paragraphs below, I’ll outline my observations about seven attributes of each kind of Love and where they are derived, which reveals a great deal about the attributes of the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and the Father, which I hope will provide a further avenue of inquiry for the original poster.Once we are born, the first of the great loves that we encounter is Mother Love. Reading through each of the attributes below, it’s easy to see the motherly, tough and tender, nature described in the selected verses and the source of Mother Love is revealed in numerous verses as the Holy Spirit. I’ll note here that counselors will sometimes employ a helpful technique called reparenting, where someone who retains the residue of an emotional injury from a parent or loved one who failed to meet a need, will remember the incident and reimagine it with the need being met. As I ponder the attributes of each kind of love, I can imagine a similar sort of therapy — only with God walking us through our various injuries and healing them as he reveals himself to us in each incident.ATTRIBUTES of MOTHER LOVEProtection, But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them sing joyful praises forever. Spread your protection over them, that all who love your name may be filled with joy. — Psalm 5:11 NLTComfort, I will comfort you there in Jerusalem as a mother comforts her child.” — Isaiah 66:13 NLTNurture, Powerful kings and mighty nations will satisfy your every need, as though you were a child nursing at the breast of a queen. You will know at last that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Israel. — Isaiah 60:16 NLTTraining, But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you. — John 14:26 NLTGuiding, The LORD will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring. — Isaiah 58:11 NLTRescuing, Even when you are old, I will take care of you, even when you have gray hair, I will carry you. I made you and I will support you; I will carry you and rescue you. — Isaiah 46:4 NETBrooding. “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! — Matthew 23:37 ESVI realize that some people may feel provoked by reading this post, their natural response being, “Oh yeah? Where was God when ________!” When I have felt like this, my anger, disappointment, and hurt fairly melts when I consider the brooding love of the Holy Spirit: “How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!” Now, though I am in my sixties and gray haired, I find myself more willing to be supported and carried and rescued than ever in my life.ATTRIBUTES of ROMANTIC LOVEBy the time we reach adolescence, we usually have felt the pangs of yearning for Romantic Love and this is the love that is exemplified by Jesus. It has always been perplexing to me to read the verses about Jesus being the bridegroom of the church. The romantic language of wedding feasts, the marriage supper of the lamb, and the church as a bride who has made herself ready has always baffled me. I’ve heard that some celibate nuns even wear engagement rings to signify their betrothal to Jesus — but I don’t think priests do the same! How indeed are men to imagine themselves as a bride to Jesus Christ? It’s definitely a mystery as Paul describes: “For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” — Ephesians 5:30–32 KJVWhen I first began to gain some insight into this mystery, I was not seeking God’s love, nor feeling especially holy at all. I was anguishing alone in my apartment in a foreign country after my second failed long-term marriage. Though I had read books upon books about marriage and relationships, watched video after video, gone to seminar after seminar, and engaged in hours upon hours of couples counseling, and I understood and practiced the lessons taught, nothing worked. One counselor asked me, “Are you willing to do anything to save your marriage?” I said yes. After weeks of counseling my wife demanded a divorce. I said to the counselor, “I did anything, didn’t I?” “Yes, you did,” she affirmed.Well, if I did anything and my relationships still didn’t work out, what was I missing? As I pondered my experiences, I gradually began to see a pattern emerge and I began making notes about the 7 steps or stages that I perceived to be an integral part of Romantic Love. I posted them in answer to a question on Quora in 2018. The answer received over 1,000 upvotes and has an interesting comment section. Michael Gailey's answer to How do you know that you are no more in love?I made no mention of sex at all in the answer, which seemed odd to me since sex is perceived to be such an essential component of Romantic Love these days. But in almost 100,000 views, 1,000+ upvotes, 135 shares, and a couple of dozen comments, no one seemed to notice that the sex was completely absent. As I thought about this, I wondered if I had just inadvertently left it out (where does it fit in the pattern?), but then I realized that sex was incidental to the stages of Romantic Love. In reality, it might happen at the first or any of the stages — or it might not happen at all. I’m not downplaying sex (which I’m quite fond of), but recognizing the role it plays (or doesn’t play) with respect to Romantic Love was an eye-opener.It was a long time after writing the post about Romantic Love that I began to consider it as a kind of description of the Romantic Love relationship that Christians can have with Jesus. Once I had made that connection, I marveled at how well it actually described my own experience with Jesus (and many others relationship with Jesus that I’ve observed). So, here are the attributes of Romantic Love as I’ve come to see them. I find it a wonderful way to think of Jesus, his voice, attributes, and personality — and it completely resolves my discomfort with the bridegroom/bride metaphors in the Bible.Attraction — This is the initial attraction we selectively feel for another person. It’s often called chemistry. Whether it’s caused by pheromones, sensory clues, intuition, or some combination of things, I can’t say exactly — but some people attract us more than others.Connection — This is what happens when we seek to explore the initial attraction we feel by interacting with the other person. Sometimes it’s asking them out on a date, sometimes it’s timing our footsteps to stand next to them in a line, or taking the same class in school, or noting when they visit the water cooler at the office to chat them up.Infatuation — As the frequency of connection increases and attraction is confirmed and strengthened, a cocktail of hormones is released in our bodies and we enter an intense phase of desire to be with the other person. This is the phase popular culture recognizes as “love”. We see the other person as through rose-colored glasses and their every move, look, and action delights us, no matter how absurd. We are blinded to their faults and exaggerate their good points. This phase lasts about 18–24 months before the hormonal inducers begin to subside. This is often long enough to get married, entangle finances and even have a child or two. But inevitably, by the end of 24 months, they’ve “lost that lovin’ feeling. Whoa, that lovin’ feeling… and it’s gone, gone, gone, whoa oh oh…”Reality (Authenticity) — Now that the hormones have dropped back to normal levels, we stare blinking at the other person wondering what we were thinking back in stage 3. Suddenly, we realize that it wasn’t that the stars and planets had somehow aligned and brought two lonely souls together in a perfect match beyond anything anyone in the history of the world has ever experienced; we are two different persons, with different needs and desires, different outlooks and goals — this is in stark contrast to our fantasies of romantic bliss forever. A lot of conflict tends to surface in this stage. We say things like, “How could I have been so blind?” Or we add a bit of blame and accuse the other of deliberately deceiving us or changing into a different person. Really, it’s mostly that, without the masking hormones, we notice that they’re not meeting our needs the way we want them to. Sometimes we even push their buttons and aggravate the situation just to prove the point. Lingering in this stage for too long is a mistake — it tends to make us bitter. But it’s one of the natural stages of love and it’s necessary. Like the other stages (except the last one), it’s transitionary.Decision Time (Resolve) — Even if you’re already married and obligated by now, you still have to face this stage. Now that the hormone induced romantic mists have cleared and you have taken stock of the actual situation, you must recommit... or not. There is no ceremony for this and you may or may not discuss it with your partner — but it happens nonetheless. It’s at this point that some couples conclude that “that lovin’ feeling” is gone for good and they exit the relationship, looking for fresh love — another infatuation experience. Fortunately, for many, the benefits of staying together outweigh the discomforts — and pressures to flee the relationship — and they stay together, if even for convenience. Often, some kind of a negotiation takes place — a mutual truce with terms. Note that if back in stage 4 you discovered that your paramour is an ax murderer, or a child molester, or something else along those lines, exiting the relationship may indeed be the right decision. Otherwise, the decision to stay becomes an invitation to the next stage: intimacy.Intimacy — At this stage, you see the other person for who they really are and they see you for who you really are too. And you accept the good along with the bad. You’re no longer wondering if your love will last — you know it will because you’ve made a conscious decision to love and trust them — and they you. As George MacDonald said, “Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.” This stage of love is not accessible prior to stage 5 as you’re both still wearing masks up until then — some conscious, some unconscious. But now, you are vulnerable to each other; you know each other’s panic buttons, but you protect them rather than push them. The feelings of stage 3 are rekindled but instead of feeling fleeting and momentary like hot sparks, they are like deep glowing embers of a fire that never goes out. Now, it seems like before, when you were infatuated, you were splashing about in a puddle of shallow water — whereas, in intimacy you are swimming in the great deep.Unity — In this final stage, two have become one. You know each other’s thoughts and feelings, needs and longings; his needs are hers and hers his. Herein lies the mystery of the ancient scripture: But from the beginning God created male and female. For this reason a man will leave his parents and be wedded to his wife. And the husband and wife will be joined as one flesh, and after that they no longer exist as two, but one flesh. So there you have it. What God has joined together, no one has the right to split apart.” — Mark 10:6–9 TPTATTRIBUTES of FATHER LOVEThe love of the Father is the first of the great loves for which I had identified the 7 attributes. It is revealed more directly that the others (He describes himself plainly in Exodus 32). Though the Father’s love is clearly described and his attributes can be listed easily enough, I find it impossible to fathom the depth of it. I’ve listed it last, but in many ways, it comes first (though we’re often not aware of it). I’ve written quite a few answers that pertain to individual attributes of Father’s Love, so perhaps a better way to express my thoughts on the love of the Father may be to simply link to some of my posts:Compassion — Michael Gailey's answer to What was the most meaningful, yet fleeting, relationship you've ever had?Patience (longsuffering) — Michael Gailey's answer to What's the saddest thing someone told you before dying? and Michael Gailey's answer to Why are we born to suffer if God loves every one of us?Mercy — Michael Gailey's answer to Will God have mercy on everyone for every sin? in The Christian CornerLovingkindness — Michael Gailey's answer to Would you ever leave your spouse because of your step-child?Truth — Michael Gailey's answer to If your child accidentally stole items from a store, would you take them back and pay?Grace — Michael Gailey's answer to One day, when out walking, my eldest daughter said: “Daddy, I don’t think I’ll ever be a swan”. What is the saddest thing your young daughter ever said to you?Forgiveness — Michael Gailey's answer to How can God forgive you for your sins if you can't forgive yourself? and The Bible says to love the Lord with all our strength. How do we do this?I’ve come to see vast differences in The Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, their voices, personalities, attributes and their love, but they are always in perfect agreement. I recognize that this post is wholly inadequate in expressing the true nature of God — it is only my thoughts and reflections as I navigate the paths of my life.

The word space can mean many different things, depending on the context in which it is used.For the sake of convenience, and for its authority, I would defer to the Oxford English Dictionary for definitions as well as for supporting examples from literature:I. Denoting time or duration.1. Time which is free or available for doing something; leisure; opportunity. Chiefly in to have (also give) space. Frequently coupled with other nouns, esp. time. Now rare and archaic.In later use sometimes difficult to distinguish from extended uses of senses relating to physical space (see branch II.); cf. breathing space n. at breathing n. Compounds 3b.a. With infinitive or prepositional phrase as complement.c1300 All Souls (Laud) 68 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 422 (MED) He ne may habbe no space here his penaunce bringue to ende.c1300 Assumption of Virgin (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1901) l. 172 Þat þu..Ȝef hem boþe wille and space, Hem to amendy er hy beo ded.c1330 (▸?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 556 (MED) Berard on þe helme he smot; To stond hadde he no space.c1390 Body & Soul (Vernon) (1889) 104 A! Ihesu, that us alle hast wrouȝt,..Of amendement ȝef us space.a1400 (▸c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 11292 Y þanke þe..Þat hast lent me wyt and space, Þys yn Englys for to drawe.1445 tr. Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis in Anglia (1905) 28 277 The doome of heven also yiveth space to mannys favour in the.1483 (▸1413) tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) i. xvi. 17 He had space, and suffysaunt leyser ynow, for to haue..enstablysshed procuratours.1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iii Whanne the poure man was before the Juge, he demaunded terme and space for to answere.1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 212 To ete thy flesch the doggis sall haue na space.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Spatium They had tyme or space to take aduisement.1591 J. N. Path-way to Penitence sig. A3 They are most likely to be preuented and ouertaken with ye wrath of God, whose merciful fauor in giuing them sufficient space and means to repent, they haue neglected and ouerpassed.1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love v. i. sig. Kv Giue vnto the flying Hart, Space to breath, how short soeuer. View more context for this quotation1624 J. Skinner True Relation Proc. against Eng. at Amboyna 29 The Priest and the rest, although they had space and means to haue escaped to Seran and other places safe enough from the Hollanders, yet were so confident of their innocency, that they would needs to Poloway to purge themselues.1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 102 That very space to Repent..but confirmeth and emboldens the stubborn and wicked.1702 S. Clarke Paraphr. Gospels Mark & Luke ii. xiii. 180 Thus likewise to every Obstinate Sinner, God offers means and space of Repentance.1755 M. Byles Divine Power & Anger 3 If thus having Space to repent, we yet repent not, we shall find that is it a fearful Thing to fall into the Hands of the living God.1793 H. Boyd Royal Message iv. iii, in Poems 408 This will afford him space to reach the camp.1910 S. Phillips Pietro of Siena iii. i. 42 It is not yet too late. Give me a little more of time to breathe..I but ask A little space to see her once, or hear Her voice.†b. Without complement. Obsolete.c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 128 (MED) Wel is him þat haþ þat grace For to plese his god..And Merci seche while he haþ space.▸ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 3843 Thogh thei hadden litel space, Yit thei acorden in that place.?a1400 (▸a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 86 (MED) He may, tille he has space, gif it withouten synnes.c1405 (▸c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 35 While I haue tyme and space.a1475 (▸?1445) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 368 I cry vnto ȝow..That ȝe gete to us repentaunce and space.c1480 Childe of Bristowe in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 121 And y shal laboure..to bring your soule in better way, yf y have lyf and space.?1510 T. More in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. f.ivv Happely thow shuldest not liue an houre more Thi syn to clense and though thou haddest space Yet peraduenture shuldest thou lak the grace.▸ ?a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 143 Asking wald haif..Convenient tyme, lasar and space.1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Mmm.iii We must take, hede that we call vppon this aduocate, whyle we haue space geuen vs in thys Lyfe.1581 H. Walpole in W. Allen Martyrdom Campion (1908) 46 God graunt they may amend the same, While here they have the space.1602 W. Leigh Soules Solace in W. Harrison Deaths Advantage (ed. 2) 38 Alwaies reason requireth that whilest we haue space and time, wee should amend and correct our faults.a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. i. 90 Come on, thou are granted space . View more context for this quotation1635 T. Cranley Amanda 79 Helpe me to pray to God, to grant me grace, To persevere in this my reformation, That I may now repent, whilst I have space.1743 D. Crosley Triumph Sovereign Grace p. xxxi Blessed be God he gives us space.1791 Mod. Politics 23 Give us space and time, and we may do all things well.[1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. vii. 128 ‘By my faith, time and space fitting, this were a good tale to tell,’ said Leicester.]2. Quantity or extent of time.a. The amount of time contained in a specified period.(a) Preceded by (preposition and) definite article, and followed by of.a1350 Recipe Painting in Archæol. Jrnl. (1844) 1 66 (MED) Sete hit into horsse dunge depe bi the space of ix niht.a1425 (▸a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 3933 Þe space of alle ane hale yhere.c1450 (▸c1350) Alexander & Dindimus (Bodl.) (1929) l. 885 Þe space of hure liuus.1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i [He] festyed hym by the space of xiiij dayes.1515 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 98 He bought the space of xxti yere Irne..and Retailled the same.?1547 J. Bale Brefe Comedy Tempt. Our Lorde sig. D I haue fasted here, the space of forty dayes.1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 28 The leaves..dronken in wine by the space of seven dayes healeth the Jaundes.1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xvii. 174 In the water whereof, you cannot indure to hold your hand, the space of an Ave Maria.1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 99 For the space of many generations it hath been a shop of Arts and Artists.1684 A. Behn Love-lett. between Noble-man & Sister sig. A12v These Letters were found in their Cabinets, at their house at St. Denice, where they both liv'd together for the space of a year.1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. iii. 43 The former revolves in the space of ten Hours.1753 E. Haywood Hist. Jemmy & Jenny Jessamy II. xvii. 183 Her countenance went through several changes in the space of half a minute.1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §344 In the space of a tide, the salt water has not time to..return.1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xii. 311 In the space of twenty minutes the eggs were roasted quite hard.1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 128 He found that sprigs..became quite dead in the space of a day.1841 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) I. 221 Wholly given to..idolatry by the space of above eight hundred years.1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 669/1 The unparalleled perseverance of the armies of the United States through almost every possible suffering and discouragement for the space of eight long years was little short of a standing miracle.1939 ‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 128 The door of the dining-room was thrown open but nobody entered for the space of fifteen seconds.1948 H. E. Bates Purple Plain (new ed.) viii He realized that..all that had happened to him had happened in the space of a few minutes.2001 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Oct. 24 Within the space of seven weeks, around 4,000 Kurds, fleeing eastern Turkey, arrived in Britain.(b) With preceding genitive.c1405 (▸c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 916 Duryng the metes space The child stood lookynge in the kynges face.?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 3617 Before many ȝere space.▸ ?a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 62 Thow seis the vrechis set..To gadder gudis all thar liffis spaice.1542 D. Clapam tr. H. C. Agrippa Treat. Nobilitie Woman Kynde sig. Eviii It is redde in the fourth boke of kingis, that quene Attalia reigned, & was souerayne Iudge in Ierusalem seuen yeres space.1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 27 Who in seuen dayes space lost two sonnes.1625 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 101 Within an howers space shee was burnt to the water.a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 45 He had but a Winters space; for the warre was to begin the next Spring.1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France 758 The Princess of Espinoy in the absence of her Husband..defended it [sc. Tournay] for two Months space.1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent v. i. 55 Give me yet a Moment's space.1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad iv. 73 Yet for a truce of seven days space I plead.1787 School of Virtue II. 108 In five minutes space she rested safe within the verge of land's protection.1825 W. Scott Betrothed xv, in Tales Crusaders II. 304 There was more than three hours' space to the time of rendezvous.1883 O. Schreiner Story Afr. Farm (new ed.) ii. i. 248 What comparison will there be between burning for a hundred years' space and to be burning without intermission as long as God is God?1893 M. E. Wilkins Giles Corey ii. 29 I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.1920 S. Teasdale Flame & Shadow 26 Here for a moment's space Into the light out of darkness, I come and they come with me.1990 Contemp. Lit. 31 437 The amount of confusion he can create in a few hours' space is frequently astonishing.b. The period or amount of time already specified, indicated, or otherwise determined. See also space of time n. at Phrases 2b.?a1400 (▸a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 305 (MED) Bituex prime & none alle voide was þe place, þe bataile slayn & done alle within þat space.c1460 (▸a1449) J. Lydgate Legend St. Austin (Harl. 2255) l. 207 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 199 Al the space the masse was seyeng.1545 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 16 For payment of the saidis horsemen during the said space.1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. E3, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) I thought two monethes being now passed, I might in this space haue found a season conuenient.1639 D. Lupton tr. J. Verheiden Hist. Mod. Protestant Divines 272 He..sate Primate and Metropolitane of all England the space of 15. yeeres, in which space hee did many famous workes of Charity.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 221 Their [sc. the Jews'] Custome is before Marriage to be contracted and after some space to be Married.1712 W. Fleetwood 4 Serm. Pref. p. viii That precious Life, had it pleased God to have prolonged it to the usual Space.1737 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 690/2 The Expence of the Fleet within the same Space, exceeded 270,000l.1779 S. Johnson Dryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 88 Though the life of a writer, from about thirty-five to sixty-three, may be supposed to have been sufficiently busied by the composition of eight and twenty pieces for the stage, Dryden found room in the same space for many other undertakings.1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. i. 3 In less than the space we have mentioned, the Count..came back to the verge of the forest.1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend ii. 47 Forty years..Have I been Prior.., But for that space Never have I beheld thy face!1938 Times 19 July 38/3 The two navies..have now been at peace for more than another century. Indeed, in the only wars in which either has fought in that space..they have been allied.1995 Independent (Nexis) 8 July 40 The pear in caramel disappeared in the space it took to mop up the pint of water my daughter spilt on the banquette.†3. An appropriate or allotted time. Obsolete. rare.▸ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Eccles. iii. 1 Alle thingus han time, and in ther spaces [L. suis spatiis] passen alle thingus vnder the sunne.†4.a. Without article: lapse, extent, or passage of time between two definite points, events, etc.; duration. Chiefly with adjectives, as little, long, short, small. Obsolete (chiefly poetic in later use).a1400 (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6980 (MED) Þair faith lasted littel space, For quen þai mast wer in þair wele, Mast þai soght þam-self vn-sele.?a1400 (▸a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 213 Grace God gaf him here, þis lond to kepe long space.1487 (▸a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xi. 9 And quhen he herd..at sic space he had Till purvay hym, he ves rycht glad.a1500 (▸1471) G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Ashm.) l. 335 (MED) A ȝer or more we take tyll oure resspyte, For in lesse space our calsys wyll note be made.1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) vii. 32 Sayenge she wolde, in her goodly scyence In short space, me so well indoctryne.c1549 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) II. 307 With intervale and space necessare of þe law vsit.1582 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes 189 The eternall [1557 eternal creator] created this world in short space.1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 18 They become whole and frolicke, in small space.1673 Pleasant Treat. Witches vi. 56 The vehemency of his fall was abated, and in short space he came again to his sences.1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 124 To her Father's Court, in little space Restor'd anew.1731 J. Trapp tr. Virgil Georgicks iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 204 In short space, from That contagious Touch, The sacred Fire their tainted Limbs devour'd.1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 242 The turnpike gates again Flew open in short space.1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso xxiii. 16 Short space ensued; I was not held..Long in expectance.1835 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Acharnians 57 (note) A ten years' truce, in short, was..little more than space allowed for making new preparations for war.1871 D. G. Rossetti Staff & Scrip in Poems xxx O changed in little space!.. O pale that was so red!1889 B. Carman Marjorie in Guendolen (single sheet) The rune he sang, the rune she heard, Died on the air in little space.b. in space: after a time or while. Obsolete.c1400 (▸?c1380) Pearl 61 (MED) Fro spot my spyryt þer sprang in space.1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. viii. 148 In space and succession of tyme he departed to them alle his goodes temporell.1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MM Take muddy water..& sette it alone,..& in space it wyll waxe clere.c1540 (▸?a1400) Destr. Troy 2811 Tyll þai comyn of the cost of Caucleda in spase.c. Delay, deferment; respite. Chiefly in negative contexts. Obsolete.c1430 (▸c1395) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) Prol. l. 440 [I] al for-ȝeue with oute lengere space.?c1430 J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree (Huntington) 618 Life yn deserte..Mai a-ȝeyne dethe haue respite noon ne space.a1500 Eng. Glosses MS BL Add. 37075 (1984) 94 (MED) Mora..spase.a1554 J. Croke tr. Thirteen Psalms (1844) cii. 19 Without abode or space, Bowe downe thyne ears.1629 L. Andrewes XCVI. Serm. vi. 857 Strooken downe in the place, like ranke rebels; and tumbled into hell like reprobates, without space or grace.5.a. A period or interval of time; a spell. Chiefly with indefinite article. (When used without adjective often implying a period of short duration.)(a) With of.See also space of time n. at Phrases 2b.c1405 (▸c1395) G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 103 I dar the bettre aske of yow a space Of audience.a1425 (▸a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 436 (MED) Þer þre partes er þre spaces talde Of þe lyf of ilk man.1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 221 Wythin a space of two or thre monethes, he was maried.1602 S. Patrick tr. I. Gentillet Disc. Wel Governing 90 In this contestation..remained their affaires by a long and great space of yeares.1657 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. Paruta Politick Disc. i. xi. 70 This may be alledged for the first reason, why the Empire was able to preserve it self for so long a space of years.?1710 Squire Bickerstaff Detected 6 After a competent space of staring at me.1797 Times 26 June 2/1 This Day is published..the Chronologist... Containing a faithful Series of the Events which have occurred in Europe, &c... Including a Space of nearly Seven Years.1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor ix, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 263 The intervention of an unusual space of sobriety.1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous iii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 108 An intermediate space of punishment.1867 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 412 Within a space of two years the currency had swelled from a total of £17,000,000 to one of £24,500,000.1923 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 34 470 A method where the pressure-change could be closely followed over a space of some 5 min. was sought.1994 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 4 Nov. 2 It would take a demographic miracle to transform a heterogeneous population of a few hundred thousand souls..into a people of 6 million in a space of some 70 years.2005 J. Buzard Disorienting Fiction viii. 198 This departure from Thornfield allows both for a space of reflection on what has been happening there and for a first-ever return to Thornfield itself.(b) Without complement.a1450 (▸?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) l. 6179 in K. Brunner Mittelengl. Vers-roman über Richard Löwenherz (1913) 394 Soone after in a lytyl spase..Þe castel become on a ffyr al.a1525 (▸c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 112 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 98 To schape me a schand bird in a schort space.1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xv. 33 After they hadde taryed there a certayne space.1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 259 He and his defended themselues..along space.1572 (▸a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 336 He kneillit doun in the place. Thankand God ane greit space.1633 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 77 God hath afflicted you with many sad crosses within a short space.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 99 Like Diligence requires the Courser's Race; In early Choice; and for a longer space . View more context for this quotation1719 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 219 For a considerable space no one could be heard.1779 Mirror No. 8 After a space, I tired of walking by the Red Sea.1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xi. 214 I have allowed you a competent space to express your feelings. I must circumduce the term.1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 46 §80 For any space not exceeding thirty days.1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life i. v. 28 The incompatibility..is often very marked if you look at small spaces of time only; but if you consider broader spaces, such as a lifetime, then the incompatibility is not so marked.1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xi. 125 Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.1951 ‘C. S. Forester’ Randall & River of Time (U.K. ed.) xix. 308 The interchange of glances between the warders down there; a pause for a space while it was decided into which cell he should be put.2006 Church Times 13 Apr. 8/1 It happened to be a special season of the Christian year when we desire to put away, if only for a short space, all angry and discordant thoughts and words.†b. A period of delay. Obsolete.a1413 (▸c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) i. l. 505 But whanne he hadde a space fro his care, Thus to hym self full ofte he gan to pleyne.▸ ?a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. l. 1240 They departid, made no lengere spacis,..And gan to chese hem newe duellyng placis.†c. A spell of writing or narration. Obsolete. rare—1.a1500 (▸?a1425) Ipomedon (Harl.) (1889) l. 528 (MED) Of chyld Ipomydon here is a space.II. Denoting area or extension.* General or unlimited extent.6. Linear distance; interval between two or more points, objects, etc.Frequently with some suggestion of sense 7.c1350 Rabe Moyses (Rawl.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1901) 106 350 (MED) Þat is also muche space As a mon sholde..In v hondred wyntur go.▸ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 676 Astronomie..makth a man have knowlechinge Of Sterres..And what betwen hem is of space.c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) l. 1996 (MED) The erthes space, how long hit ys abowte..foure and twenty thowsand myle..In hys circuite he conteyneth.a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. sig. A.ii Neyther one fynger breadth of space, nor one minute of tyme from you.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Spatium Aequali spatio distare, to be like space asunder.a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. iii. 21 Therefore Make space enough betweene you. View more context for this quotation1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 104 'Twixt Host and Host but narrow space was left, A dreadful interval. View more context for this quotation1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xiii. 75 This Space considered barely in length between any two Beings, without considering any thing else between them, is called distance.1733 S. Humphreys tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature I. ii. xiv. 210 There is much less Space between the Tree and the Earth of the upper Part of the Hill than there is between the same Tree and the Hill towards the Bottom.1751 J. Harris Hermes i. vii. 100 Between London and Salisbury there is the Extension of Space.1771 R. Berenger Hist. & Art Horsemanship I. 276 Leaving no more space between the hind quarters of the horse and the chariot, than was sufficient for the horse to move his hind legs clear of the carriage.1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 161 Less space is required after a sloping letter than a perpendicular one.1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 394/1 Space,..the interval between troops when drawn up in line or column.1892 A. Oldfield Pract. Man. Typogr. iii. 35 When space is required, a mark similar to a sharp in music should be made.1926 Art Bull. 9 30 There is more space between the cheek pieces [of the helmet] and the top is decorated with two spirals.1972 Times 2 Nov. 18/5 The 126 has five inches more space from the steering wheel to the rear seat backrest.2007 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 24 July 24 Why do many motorists not practise the most basic safety principles, such as leaving enough space between cars to stop in an emergency without hitting the vehicle in front?7.a. Physical extent or area; extent in two or three dimensions.▸ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 51 (MED) Affrica in his kynde haþ lasse space.c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 3 (MED) Asia..conteyneth as mech in space as do þe othir too parties.?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 8130 (MED) Crayke þai him gaue With thre myle space aboute to haue.1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Arduenna, a great wod in Gallia belgica, whiche taketh in space .500. myles.1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 29 v Those tendons are much lesse then they of inner side, and therfore (also) occupy lesse space.a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 257 I could..count my selfe a King of infinite space; were it not that I haue bad dreames.1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 78 Large Houses..which take up a great deal of space because of the spaciousness of the Gardens.1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Space, in Geometry, is the Area of any Figure.1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 182 The muscle contracts inwardly into its own dense substance, and takes up less space than before.1780 J. Hanway Citizen's Monitor viii. 67 Will not this plan require so much space, as may invade the chapel, hall, court-room, and the houses lately built?1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 42 The more it is heated, the more space it takes up.a1831 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 7/1 We are so constituted, that we cannot conceive certain objects otherwise than as occupying space.1863 Times 3 Nov. 7/4 The amount of space in each room and the drainage of the house were very satisfactory.1945 Eng. Hist. Rev. 60 417 The wheels and machinery took up so much space that..the sea endurance was limited by the amount of coal that could be carried.1999 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 2 Oct. 1 Placed next to one another on a wall, the portraits took up a great deal of space.b. Extent or area sufficient for a purpose, action, etc.; room to contain or do something. Also in extended use.▸ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 41 (MED) Þis ilond Man conteyneþ as hit were tweie ilondes; þe firste..conteyneþ nyne hondred housholdes..Þe secounde conteyneþ þe space of þre hondred and moo.a1413 (▸c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) i. l. 714 Certeynly nomore harde grace May sitte on me, for-whi þer is no space.c1430 (▸c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1999 [He] hath bothe roum & space And wilde an ax or swerd.?1528 La Conusaunce Damours sig. aivv He stode betwene them louers twayne Nat openyng to them so moche space To come to gether, eche other to enbrace.1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 38 Leaue space & rome, to hillock to come.a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 495 Might I but through my prison once a day Behold this Mayd:..space enough Haue I in such a prison. View more context for this quotation1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 339 Our Saviour..beheld In ample space under the broadest shade A Table richly spred. View more context for this quotation1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 179 We halted within View of a Bridge, leaving Space enough on our Front for about half the Number of their Forces to pass and draw up.1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 198 They stood parallel, and so very close to each other as only to allow space for a small wicker chair betwixt them.1842 Ld. Tennyson You ask me Why iv Where..The strength of some diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread.1869 J. G. Holland Kathrina 49 The foul demon who would drive my soul To crime that leaves no space for penitence!1940 C. Morgan Voyage III. xi. 365 There was space for a sofa and a small armchair of red plush beside the broad, low windows.1987 P. Angadi Highly Flavoured Ladies (1989) xxii. 252 She wanted to feel solitude and quiet, so that she could begin to allow her own thoughts space.2004 Independent (Nexis) 14 May 11 There is no television or mini-bar and barely space to swing a cat.c. Chiefly Scottish in early use. Extent or room in a letter, periodical, book, etc., available for, or occupied by, written or printed matter (cf. sense 11e). Chiefly in contexts of restricted extent.c1480 (▸a1400) Prol. l. 27 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 2 Þare-fore, in lytil space here, I wryt þe lyf of sanctis sere.a1500 Ratis Raving (Cambr. Kk.1.5) l. 1099 in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 31 Tak gud kep..to this pase, Fore here ar vrytin in lytill space Sum thingis that may help & sped.c1530 Pol., Rel., & L. Poems (1866) 40 I write no more to you, for lacke of space.1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. iv. 34 If hee write more in a shorter space, then is in like space in the copice, he either makes his letters too little, or sets them too neere one another.1645 E. W. Four Queries Resolved iv. 10 Touching his Prayer..I have not space to enlarge now; I adde this onely; That his prayer is the highest provocation of all that went before, and the greatest abhomination.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 128 But streighten'd in my space, I must forsake This Task. View more context for this quotation1715 R. Thoresby Ducatus Leodiensis Pref. p. xvi I shall conclude with the Explanation of the Abbreviations that are unavoidably made use of in the printed Pedegrees, for want of Space to contain the whole Matter.1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 298 With a studied brevity, his system comprehends the greatest variety, in the smallest space.1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 7/2 Various expressive adjectives,..into the consideration of which our space will not permit us to enter.1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 165/1 In the marginal glosses, where it was an object to save space.1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 279 Nothing has been omitted on the score of space.1917 Times 15 Nov. 5/2 In typewritten matter the lines must be in ‘close order’, to save space and paper.1970 H. T. Moore in C. A. Hoyt Minor Amer. Novelists Pref. p.xi At this point—and I'm running out of space—I'm going to skip the next writer discussed in Mr. Hoyt's book.2001 Educ. Researcher 30 18/1 There is insufficient space here to summarize all the varied data sources.d. Room or available extent in a newspaper, periodical, etc., or on some other medium, which may be acquired for a specific purpose, esp. advertising (cf. sense 11e).1878 Davenport Gaz. 1 Feb. 2/1 The Chicago Tribune proposes that its friends in Congress who have organized themselves into a corporation for the purpose of buying space in newspapers and otherwise influencing public opinion..shall style their association ‘The Silver League’.1930 Economist 29 Nov. 1003/2 In advertising Britain is far behind America in buying space.1950 Times 7 Feb. 5/5 In the last election, one company gave space to the Communist Party and the Commonwealth Party, but the main newsreels adhered to the general agreement that space should be given only to the main parties.1989 Marketing 9 Mar. 20/4 Traditionally, people have advertised on radio because they lacked the budget for TV, or because with cinema you have to book space a year ahead.2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Jan. d1 Advertisers looking to connect with men in the 18–34 age bracket..could buy time on the appropriate radio stations and complement the exposure by buying space on Web sites that cater to the same age group.e. Computing. Virtual or electronic room for the storage of data. Frequently with modifying word.disk space, file space: see the first element.1949 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 3 427 Most of the above [improvement in speed] is accomplished at the expense of memory space.1962 H. D. Huskey & G. A. Korn Computer Handbk. xvii. 19 If memory space is not a problem the input information can be reduced to reasonable size by devising a generator code.1991 Home Office Computing June 30/3 To save space..on-line services store many files in compressed formats.2005 Computer Buyer May 117/1 Because spyware usually starts when your computer is booted, and runs in the background, it takes up space in your PC's memory and saps processing power.8. The expanse in which celestial objects are situated; the physical universe (excluding celestial objects) beyond the earth's atmosphere, consisting of near vacuum with small amounts of gas and dust. Frequently with modifying word.deep, inner, near, outer space, etc.: see the first element.1582 Second Tome Homilies (new ed.) sig. Ss6 Consider the huge substance of ye earth... How could it so stand stably in ye space as it doth, if gods goodnes reserued it not so for us to trauel on.1656 J. Evelyn Ess. 1st Bk. Lucretius 164 The rational Bruno..hath written an express and curious treatise, not onely to prove the Infinity of Space; but that even of worlds.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 650 Space may produce new Worlds. View more context for this quotation1778 Ferguson's Astron. Explained (ed. 6) i. §4. 2 All the Stars..are placed at immense distances from one another through unlimited space.1816 P. B. Shelley Dæmon of World in Alastor 99 Each [orb] with undeviating aim..through the depths of space Pursued its wondrous way.1829 Chapters Physical Sci. 411 They recede so far from us, as to be lost in the immensity of space.1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours ii. 36 Our earth is as a minute island placed within the ocean of space.1901 H. G. Wells First Men in Moon iii. 45 After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition.1924 R. Graves Mock Beggar Hall 40 May not Space be housing and sheltering millions of other beings like us, or different from us?1959 Daily Tel. 23 Feb. 11/6 For the human body, space begins about 12 miles up, where there is not enough air left to burn a candle.1977 D. Adams Hitch-hiker's Guide to Galaxy (1985) ii. 39 ‘Space’, it says, ‘is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.’2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Nov. a18/1 Near the edge of the solar system..supersonic ‘winds’ of charged particles from the Sun collide with matter from interstellar space.9. Continuous, unbounded, or unlimited extent in every direction, without reference to any matter that may be present; this regarded as an attribute of the universe, describable mathematically (in modern science usually conflated with time: cf. space-time n. 1); (as a count noun) a mathematical construct or model of this.Traditionally regarded as having three dimensions, in contrast to the two dimensions of an area and the one dimension of a line.Euclidean, hyperbolic, non-Euclidean, parabolic space: see the first element. See also closed adj. Additions, open adj. 19c.1629 T. Jackson Treat. Divine Essence ii. 56 The divine Essence by reason of its absolute infinity, hath an absolute necessity of coexistence with space or magnitude infinite.1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. vii. 69 Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §111 For the rest, this celebrated author holds there is an absolute Space.1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 565. ¶8 The noblest and most exalted Way of considering this infinite Space is that of Sir Isaac Newton, who calls it the Sensorium of the Godhead.1734 J. Kirkby tr. I. Barrow Usefulness Math. Learning x. 176 Space is nothing else but the mere Power, Capacity, Ponibility, or..Interponibility of Magnitude.1883 Proc. Royal Soc. 35 219 Of the three kinds of non-Euclidean space, that known as elliptic space has been chosen.1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 184 All our conceptions are defined by conditions of time and space.1897 B. Russell Ess. Found. Geom. ii. 93 Those who have done most to further non-Euclidean Geometry..have usually inherited from Newton a naïve realism as regards absolute space.1899 Amer. Math. Monthly 6 227 The properties of hyperbolic and elliptic spaces.1905 Mind 14 460 Our Euclidean space is only a special case of a space of an indefinite number of dimensions.1922 H. L. Brose tr. H. Weyl Space—Time—Matter iv. 278 We conclude that space is closed and hence finite.1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 765/2 Kant maintained that the noumenal world contains neither space nor time nor causality.1981 E. R. Harrison Cosmology vii. 149/1 Hyperbolic and spherical spaces, like Euclidean space, are uniform.2007 Wired Apr. 36/1 The ordinary adult never bothers his head about the problems of space and time.10. The physical expanse which surrounds something; extent in all directions from a given point or object. Frequently with into or in (cf. into space at Phrases 4).1805 Sporting Mag. Sept. 306/2 A candle when alight has the power to distribute its own particles into space for three miles round.1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xxiii. 573 It is with equal difficulty that they throw off their heat by radiation into space or to other bodies.1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. 33 In the above the geometric forms are supposed to lie in space.1927 Times 1 Jan. 9/3 Anyone who provided himself with the necessary [wireless] apparatus could emit into space what sounds he liked.1945 Electronic Industries Sept. 226 Stabilization, a system for maintaining a radar beam in a desired direction in space despite the roll and pitch of the ship or aircraft.1966 H. Moore On Sculpt. 149 He must make the object he draws capable of having a far side to it, that is, make it an object in space, not an object in relief.1994 New Scientist 7 May 18/1 A typical wave is spread out, so it has no definite location in space, but it does have a direction of movement.2004 Jrnl. Chem. Physics 121 1175 The time evolution of the initial plane wave packet provides a clear visualization of the scattering into space of the reaction products.** Specific or limited extent.11.a. An area or extent delimited or determined in some way.c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2247 Neymes..ȝyf him a strok ounride wiþ-inne þe neckes space.c1400 (▸1391) G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §2. 4 This ring rennyth..in so Rowm a space þat hit desturbith nat the instrument.1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 351 Þe Space be-twene sculders.., jnterscapulum.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 273/2 Space bytwene the eyes, entroeil.1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 42 Leauing open a space for twoo doores.1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. xxxvii. 274 In the spaces betwixt the draughts, make diuers holes.1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. v. i. 58 I cannot breath within this narrow space.1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Vacuum Disseminatum Small void Spaces spread about between the Particles of Bodies.1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Area The Elliptic Space PSD being drawn equal to the other ASB.1773 B. Gooch Med. & Chirurg. Observ. 21 The term birth signifies an inclosed space, or kind of apartment, made with canvas, for one seaman or more.1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. vi. 177 Even the space left open round the neck may be closed when desirable.1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1854) 16 A viscid secreting space called the stigma.1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight iii. 37 The most sensitive portion is a small space directly in the line of vision, called the yellow spot.1901 Times 22 Oct. 10/4 A broad road, lined on each side by fine trees, and divided midway by a circular space adorned with statuary.1920 Musical Times Aug. 529/2 The League of Arts gave two performances..in a roped-off space between the Magazine and the Serpentine.2005 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 22 Apr. (What's up section) 26 Viewers enter a small space defined by two facing banners.b. A part or section marked off in some way from a larger area or extent; a division, section.▸ c1392 Equatorie of Planetis 26 (MED) The owterest space is mynutis, & the nexte space is degres, & the thridde space is nombres of degres & the ferthe space is for names of signes.▸ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xvi. 484 As þe cercle þat hatte zodiacus is distingurid in twelue spacis..so the cercle of the sonne is distingurid in xii. spaces.c1400 (▸1391) G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §20. 11 Next thise azymutz..ben ther 12 deuysiouns embelif,..þat shewen the spaces of the howres of planetes.1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. ii. 166 He may not meue but in to one space or poynt.1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vi. iii. f. 307v Suppose the inside of your left thumbe to be diuided into three spaces.1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. ix. 202 Spaces are portions in the Spheare bounded by the Parallell circles.1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vii. xxix. 44 Take a short space of a Ruler or Transom, and saw in one side of it a Notch.1694 tr. O. G. de Busbecq Four Epist. conc. Embassy into Turkey i. 31 Thus the Turks divide the day into four spaces.1754 J. Barrow Suppl. New & Universal Dict. Month Book..[is] divided into spaces.1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 213 There is a custom here called rundale, which is a division of their farms into spaces by balks.1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 129 Set those six spaces off upon a straight line for a base..; set off three spaces upon the perpendicular.1874 Philos. Trans. 1873 (Royal Soc.) 163 1 The circle being divided into sixteen spaces, which are numbered consecutively from 0 to 15, and correspond respectively to the directions N., N.N.E., N.E., &c.1938 Times 10 June 11/3 His history gallery was divided into 40 equal spaces, each representing a century.2006 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 17 Nov. 50 My opponent slides the queen diagonally three spaces, ‘check mate’.c. The volume or dimensional extent that is, or may be, occupied by a particular http://thing.In quots. ?a1425, c1475: an internal space or cavity in the body.?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 33 Inscisioun..is mych to be dradde aboute þe wombe..for propinquite..of veynez..& þe inward spaciositee or space [?c1425 wydenesse; L. spatiositatis].c1475 (▸1392) Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 44 (MED) Þe Emunctorijs of þe lyuere & of þe ballokis..han wiþinne hem a myche space in þe which is spoungious fleisch, þenne & kirnelly.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 273/2 Space of ones body, corpsage.1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 23 All bodies haue their measure, and their space.1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 28 Some of the Platonists..affirmed that the Place of Hell was all that space between the Moon..and This.1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. II. v. §3. 702 That all the Air..is compress'd into the Space ABZX.1767 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener 21 Fill the space between the ball and the sides of the pot, with the above earth.1828 C. Lamb Old Margate Hoy in Elia 2nd Ser. 35 The things do not fill up that space, which the idea of them seemed to take up in his mind.1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 193 If we..take the space rendered opaque by the wood at 21 per cent.1937 Times 5 Oct. 11/3 Second-class accommodation is particularly good, improvements having been brought about by reducing the space occupied by the machinery.1987 R. Frame Woman of Judah 296 Everything I own, that I have to my name, can be fitted into the space of one carry-all.2000 Reader's Digest Oct. 70/2 A split-second later, an icy reeking mixture of water and heating fuel rushed through gaps above Stuart's head, filling the small space.d. An empty place or part; a void; a gap.1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana i. v. 47 In all common motions of bodies through the liberal aer, there is left a Space behind, into which the parts of the aer may instantly circulate, and deliver themselves from compression.1678 T. Hobbes Decameron Physiologicum iii. 25 They cannot be parted except the Air..can enter and fill the space made by their diremption.a1731 P. Aubin Noble Slaves in Coll. Entertaining Hist. & Novels (1739) I. 3 The Hut was built of Boughs of Trees, and Hurdles made with Canes to fill the Spaces.1773 Art of tanning & currying Leather 144 The woman sews the tail part, leaving a space for the entrance of the copper neck of a wooden funnel.1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 95 The..rudiment of the future seed, not yet inclosing a space.a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1855) iv. 140 His human heart had large spaces to hold his fellow-beings in.1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 131 The cilia..cause the currents of water to flow..into the interlamellar spaces.1907 Washington Post 6 June 6/7 A horse has forty-four teeth, and God left a space between the molars and pre-molars..for man to insert a steel bit.1955 R. Lindner Fifty-minute Hour 233 She died suddenly when he was six years old, and the space in his life left by her death was never filled.1998 Jrnl. Herpetol. 32 117/1 The cranial and caudal halves of a sclerotome are separated by a space or cavity, the sclerocoel.e. (a) A portion of a page, form, etc., available for or occupied by written or printed matter (cf. sense 7c); (b) a portion of a page (in a newspaper, etc.) available for a specific purpose, esp. advertising (cf. sense 7d); (now also) a portion of broadcasting time available for a similar purpose; a section of a billboard, website, or similar medium.advertising space: see the first element.1657 A. B. tr. J. Buxtorf Jewish Synagogue ix. 127 These last words are in many Copies left out, by reason of an injunction laide upon the Printers by the Christian Magistrate, an empty space being left [L. spatio interim vacuo relicto], that they may either write them, or else inquire what is wanting.1793 J. Whitehead Life J. Wesley I. i. vi. 344 Unfortunately the letter was not transcribed into the Journal, a blank space being left for it.1797 Evangelical Mag. Apr. 160 A wish to remove a little of the odium his memory lies under on that account, induces me to beg a small space in your valuable Magazine for the following quotation.1833 P. Hone Diary 7 Jan. (1889) I. 71 The poetry [is] a mere makeweight, written apparently just to fill up such a space on such a page.1900 Times 22 Aug. 4/3 I can find no better means of doing so [sc. expressing gratitude to the postal service] than by asking the favour of a space for this letter in the columns of The Times.1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 21 Leaving a space for his own name.1952 L. W. Fox Eng. Prison & Borstal Syst. 167 There is a space on the form on which the prisoner can make a written reply if he wishes.1956 B.B.C. Handbk. 1957 78 Plays from the West End..are often heard in the more ‘popular’ programme spaces.1972 Sci. Amer. Feb. 114/1 Kant's own book was discussed in this space a couple of years ago from the paper-back edition issued by the University of Michigan Press.1983 Financial Times (Nexis) 22 Nov. 15 A free-for-all in advertising could arise with firms taking large spaces in newspapers to advertise their services.1989 J. D. Sutherland Fairbairn's Journey vi. 149 Fairbairn cannot easily discuss theoretical criticisms in a short space.2007 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 30 May 19 Larger advertising hoardings and spaces on bus shelters cost between €500 and €5,000 for the run-up to polling day.f. Any one of a limited number of places in which a person or thing may be accommodated.1840 S. Wilderspin Infant Syst. (ed. 7) xi. 229 The tablet below the balls has six spaces for the insertion of brass letters and figures.1907 N.E.D. at Place sb. 13 a A space at table.1958 M. L. King Stride toward Freedom v. 86 By the time the meeting started, virtually every space was taken, and hundreds often overflowed into the streets.1968 R. V. Beste Repeat Instr. xiii. 140 He put the car in the garage... He chose a space at street level.1985 D. Johnson Fiskadoro iii. 78 There were no spaces on the flights.1998 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 21 Dec. c10/2 More spaces seem to be set aside for people with disabilities, but the number of disability permits seems high and competition can be keen.g. Originally U.S. A room or specific area within a building, esp. considered in terms of its function or architectural qualities.1921 V. O. Vogt Art & Relig. xix. 184 The whole amazing space is clear to the eye as one steps through the inner portals of the narthex.1969 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 9 Mar. Hardly a home exists which does not have an architecturally awkward space... In an apartment it is apt to be a long narrow hall.1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 Feb. d33/1 You have a great space to work with. You have an eager staff to help you along.1999 D. Macaulay Building Bk. Cathedral 15 I found myself alone in an amazing space... I just sat in one of the wooden chairs and stared upward, mentally dismantling the stonework above me.2007 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Sept. (Features section) 28 The Olivier Theatre has more volume,..which is perhaps why it is a notoriously tricky space.12.a. A particular stretch, extent, or area of ground, surface, sky, etc.; an expanse. Also figurative. Cf. open space n.(a) Without complement.▸ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Josh. xvii. 18 Bote þo shalt passe to þe hul,..& purge spacis to dwelle [L. ad habitandum spatia].c1400 (▸?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 7146 (MED) On a pleyne he cheseþ a place Þat biclippeþ a mychel space.?a1475 (▸?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 51 Þerfore men..folowede not the measures of spaces but reasones of diuision.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Spatium Great and large spaces in wide roomes.1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 42 Though the Corne be laide..in the floores, yet let there be a space left in the middest.1592 T. Tymme Plaine Discouerie Ten Eng. Lepers C ij In religion there is both a centre and a space.1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. App. 368 In which space is comprehended the fairest, fruitfullest,..and most ciuill part of all Africk.1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxi. 107 The water..that otherwise would spread it selfe into a larger space.1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. i. §71. 154 The Stars.., if they were ever more than seventeen in this Space, pass'd away into Comets.1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. xii. 249 The space around the building was silent, and apparently forsaken.1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxii. 44 The lists are op'd, the spacious area clear'd,..Ne vacant space for lated wight is found.1856 N. Brit. Rev. 26 57 These free spaces are found as well within the Established Church, as among the dissident bodies.1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 6 No blue space in its outspread..challenged my emerging head.1925 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 64 75 New Mexico with its ‘deserts’ and sage brush and wide-open spaces.1981 G. Swift Shuttlecock v. 36 We are looking for a space where we can be free, where we cannot be reached, where we are masters.2005 Derby Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 29 July 42 At first the approach is narrow and Georgian, but widens into a broad space in which you suddenly get the arresting sight of the west front of the cathedral all at once.(b) With of.1521 B. Anslay tr. C. De Pisan Cyte of Ladyes xxxvii. sig. Mmviv Europe whiche conteyneth a grete partye & space of the erthe vseth of these letters.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Raucus tractus, a long space of the sea makynge an hoarse noyse.1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Eclogs iii. 10 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks O Menalc tell me in what ground, a space of heauen appeeres.a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 77 Shall we..sell the mighty space of our large Honors For so much trash. View more context for this quotation1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 797 Taking into their Works..a great space of Ground without the Town.1693 C. Blount Oracles of Reason viii. 75 We must..suppose..that Chaos from whence it arose, not to have been universal or diffused over the vast spaces of the Heavens, but contained within the aforesaid bounds.1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 459 Sailing the Spaces of the boundless Deep.1724 J. Maubray Female Physician vi. 19 She [sc. the moon] is not idle or decidious in accomplishing her monthly Cause, and measuring her own Space of the Heavens.1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. vi. 204 And now the Night, elaps'd Eleven, Possess'd the middle Space of Heaven.1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 50 And then I sunk in his embrace, Enclosing there a mighty space Of love.1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott i, in Poems (new ed.) 9 Four gray towers Overlook a space of flowers.1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xxxvii. 40 The graffito scrawled upon every blank space of wall in Rome.1908 E. F. Benson Climber 87 Beyond lay the dark grey spaces of the downs, and beyond, again, a brightness as of molten amber suffused the sky above the lights of Brixham.1987 R. Godden Time to Dance (1989) 94 Old Calcutta was built around the Maidan, a vast flat space of green.1995 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 22 Nov. The facade has a moulded gable—a broad space of rendered wall under curved barge-boards.(c) In plural. The heavens; the skies; the firmament. Cf. sense 8. Now rare (chiefly poetic).1561 J. Heywood tr. Seneca Hercules Furens iv. sig. I8 To spaces hygh I wyll bee borne of hawghtye skyes about.1665 G. Havers & J. Davies tr. Another Coll. Philos. Conf. French Virtuosi clxxxiv. 301 Those higher spaces which are void of all heat.1703 M. Chudleigh Song of Three Children in Poems Several Occasions 6 Those immense Spaces which no Limits know, Where purest Æther unconfin'd doth flow.a1822 P. B. Shelley Prol. To Hellas in Relics (1862) 7 The senate of the Gods is met, Each in his rank and station set; There is silence in the spaces.1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. i. i. 7 But if there burst from those eternal spaces A flood of flame, we stand confounded ever.1908 M. J. Cawein Poems II. 458 Ye in your darkness are Dark and infernal;..But in the spaces far, Like our effulgent star, We are eternal.†b. A particular place or location; (also) an assigned or appropriate position (cf. place n.1 12a). Frequently with possessive adjective. Obsolete.?a1400 (▸a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 277 (MED) Þe Scottis had no grace to spede in þer space, for to mend þer nisse [read misse].c1400 (▸?c1380) Patience 365 (MED) Þis speche sprang in þat space and spradde alle aboute To borges and to bacheleres.a1450 (▸1408) tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 24 (MED) How fiȝteres moot ben y-tauȝt to kepe wel her space [v.r. spaces; L. ordines] in goyng, in stondyng, and rydinge when þe scheltrun is ysette.c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 1 (MED) He him selue laboured..to knowe þe spaces and þe townes þer þe holy patriarches dwelt.c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 719 (MED) Fayer speche and falsehede in on space ys.?a1525 (▸?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 461 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 72 Take yowr [read owr] space, And looke owr daggarys be sharpe and kene.a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. i. 36 Let..the wide Arch Of the raing'd Empire fall: Heere is my space . View more context for this quotationc. The physical or mental sphere within which a person lives or operates; a notional region private to an individual within which he or she feels comfortable or unrestricted; (also ) a mental position or state of mind. Cf. personal space n. 1b.1976 New Times (N.Y.) 19 Mar. 36/1 Werner Erhard, through est, has created the ‘space’ for them to ‘be’ and given them the ‘opportunity’ to ‘take responsibility’ for their lives.1976 Newsweek 6 Sept. 59/1 Est trainees are shown how to create an inner ‘space’ into which each of them can retreat and immerse himself in his own consciousness... Est graduates are taught to grant other people the space to create their own experiences.1977 C. McFadden Serial (1978) iii. 13/2 Leonard had a lot going for him otherwise, and Kate liked the space he was in.1980 G. B. Trudeau Tad Overweight Seriously, I think I know where you're coming from, and I'd like to share that space.1981 Gossip (Holiday Special) 31/3 The reason why I can say that so boldly is because they give me my space. They let me be me.1999 A. Wheatle Brixton Rock 135 Yeah, I'll see you around... You're all right but I need my space, you know.13.a. A linear distance; an interval between two or more points, objects, etc.▸ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxii. 16 Go ȝe befor me, & be þer a space [L. spatium] bytwyx flock & flock.1481–90 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 200 The space to be a fote and halffe betwene the stodes.a1500 (▸?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Chetham) l. 1130 Beues rode..Towarde the cite of Damas, That was a ffull ffeyre space.c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lviii. 198 He was a grete space before all his company.1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. viii. 82 [They] go backwarde a certeine space.1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies i. vi. 20 The firme land runnes an infinite space.1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 29 The space from one Boa [= buoy] to another, is an hundred paces or more.1661 Princess Cloria v. 550 He retired him a certain space from the multitude.1715 L. Theobald tr. Aristophanes Clouds i. i. 12 They without any trouble measur'd the space of her Leap.1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (Dublin ed.) III. xvi. 163 This put them into some Confusion, and they sheered off a little Space.1810 W. Scott Let. May–June (1932) II. 348 It corresponds..very commonly with the proper and usual space between comma and comma.1842 T. C. Thornton Mod. Cabinet Arts 159 An appreciable difference in the space which separates the stars.1862 Times 27 Jan. 7/2 This thoroughfare is nearly a quarter of a mile in length, the space from one house to that opposite being not more than 12ft.1934 Amer. Midland Naturalist 15 197 The lower incisors..have grown to a length of 55 mm., but their alignment is correct and normal, though the space between them is a trifle wide.2007 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 6 July 54 The space between the trees or poles should be one foot longer than the length of the hammock.b. With of (a specific distance). Also with preceding genitive.▸ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxx. 36 Laban..putte a space [L. spatium] of þre days wey by twyxen hem & his douter hosbond.1482 Indenture in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1875) XII. 32/2 He sal nocht cum..to þe space of sex myle neir þe place.a1500 (▸?a1425) Ipomedon (Harl.) (1889) l. 1466 (MED) He had not slepyd but a while, Not the space of a myle.1542 Dyalogue Defensyue for Women sig. Aiiiv Sodaynly within the space of a myle An Arbour moste pleasaunt, there I espyde.1581 T. Nicholas tr. A. de Zárate Discov. & Conquest Peru iii. f.27 The Gouernour proceeded forwarde for the space of two Leagues.1627 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 2nd Ser. VIII. 402 He wes caryed doun in the streame thairof aboue ane pair of buttis speace.1648 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. Late Warres vi. 182 For three miles space the ground was covered with dead Carkasses.1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 92 Between every 5 or 6 Hutts of the Troopers File, they usually leave a space of 4 or 5 foot, for the Troopers to pass from their Street, to their Horses Hutts.1725 G. Odingsells Bath Unmask'd iv. xiv. 76 I was stretched along in my Tabernacle (distant from this Place, the space of twelve Miles).1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 301 Cut through to the leather, leaving the space of ½ an inch.1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 226 I found the instrument [sc. a catheter] advance suddenly for the space of half an inch, but on with~drawing the stillette, nothing but a few drops of blood followed.1873 L. Beach Cornwall 99 The Mountain House consists of two large buildings, detached until recently by a space of about 300 feet.1901 Times 23 Feb. 13/5 The arrangement by which a space of five yards..had to be crossed by men carrying power barrels, with hobnailed boots, was not so safe as it might be.2006 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 29 Sept. 3 I've just driven into work and in the space of five miles, I've spotted three drivers with mobile phones clasped to their ears.†c. A short distance. Obsolete.1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xi. 287 His Sonne Sarpedon of the Troian race..Next whom Eusemus sat, distant a space.1622 (▸?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 241 Thane com the ladyis danceing in ane trece, And Nobilnes befoir thame come ane space.1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. 11 The old Man, then, respectfully withdrawing a Space, I don't know you, my sweet Master, said he.1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. 11 Now Oswald stood a space aside.1836 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. III. vii. 105 He did not merely approach a space, and then stand as a coward.a1872 T. B. Read House by Sea ii. iii, in Poet. Wks. (1883) 216 She..withdrew a space, to admire The beautiful collar of floral fire.†14. Course, custom, procedure. Obsolete. rare.c1400 (▸?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 755 I schal my þro steke, & spare spakly of spyt in space of my þewez.c1405 (▸c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 176 This ilke Monk leet oolde thynges pace And heeld after the newe world the space.15. Music. Any one of the intervals between the lines of a stave.a1450 Musical Treat. in Speculum (1935) 10 262 But, as for 13e & 15e, þer is no sight be-neþe þe plainsong with-in 4 rwlis & 4 spacis þat wil serue it, but yf ye chonge your sight.c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) 2074 (MED) Mynute, crochet, in rewle and eke in space, All thys she [sc. Dame Musica] taught.?1527 J. Skelton Agaynste Comely Coystrowne Ask wher he fyndyth among hys monacordys. An holy water clarke a ruler of lordys. He can not fynd it in rule nor in space.1562 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes sig. ✠iiiv Some of the kayes be set in lines or rules, and other are set in spaces betwene the lines.1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 4 You must then recken downe from the Cliefe,..assigning to euerie space and rule a seuerall Keye.1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus ii. ix. 52 A Rest, ascending from the line to the middle of the space, betokens a Minime, or a sigh.1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick i. 3 The Gam-ut is drawne upon foureteene Rules, and their Spaces.1680 A. B. Synopsis Vocal Mus. xii. 20 The primary containing signs are the Systemes, which by their five joyned parallel lines, and spaces between them whereof they do consist, assign and afford to the Cliffs their due higher or lower places.1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Staff Each Line and Space he [sc. Guido Aretino] mark'd at the beginning of the Staff with Gregory's Seven Letters.1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. x. x. 387 All that torment of first and second position, and E upon the first line, and F upon the first space!1848 E. F. Rimbault First Bk. Pianoforte 15 The additional lines and spaces above and below the staff.1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 647/2 The spaces in the treble stave make the word face.1924 P. C. Buck Scope of Music i. 19 Increase the 250 [vibrations per second] to 500, and the note changes to the octave higher, i.e. C in the third space of the treble stave.1942 Musical Q. 28 207 Morley begins by marking, on the lines and spaces of the great stave, a series of what he calls ‘notes’.2001 Galpin Society Jrnl. 54 157 It is Guido of Arezzo..who is credited with the first use of a system of pitch notation..which places the diatonic notes of a scale on alternate lines and spaces.16.a. In a text: an interval or blank between words, lines, etc.; (Typography) any of several intervals or blanks of varying widths used to separate words, justify lines, etc. Now also (in an electronic or typewritten text): an interval or blank equivalent to one character, which may be produced by pressing a specific key (cf. space bar n. at Compounds 4).letter, line space, etc.: see the first element.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Interductus, A space betweene full sentences in writyng or printing.1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 7 The Distance between one word and another is called a Space.1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Blank A void space in Writing.1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1748 I. 102 The words..having been first written down with spaces left between them, he delivered in writing their etymologies [etc.].1849 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Leads..[do] not make any impression in printing, but leave a white space where placed.1882 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 11 390 Where not otherwise indicated, the spaces between the words are of my own making.1892 A. Oldfield Pract. Man. Typogr. ii. 26 There are five kinds of spaces: the en quadrat; thick space..; middle or 4-em spaces..; thin or 5-em spaces..; and hair spaces.1914 Times 6 Apr. 10/1 A line consists of 56 letters counting spaces between words and punctuation marks as letters.1956 D. J. Lloyd & H. R. Warfel Amer. Eng. in its Cultural Setting vi. xxv. 414 The period,..unless it ends a paragraph, never stands alone; it is followed by a space and a capital letter.1979 J. D. Fletcher in L. B. Resnick & P. A. Weaver Theory & Pract. Early Reading II. xi. 258 He or she then typed a space followed with his or her first name and another space.2006 Evening Standard (Nexis) 18 May 38 Not that I'm much of a judge, having once ordered ‘pageone’ in a trattoria under the impression it was a new kind of pasta, when it was actually a missing space between ‘page’ and ‘one’ on the menu.b. Typography. Any of certain small pieces of cast-metal of various thicknesses used to produce a blank or interval in a text. Cf. quad n.1, quadrat n. 2.thin space: see thin adj., n., and adv. Compounds 1b.1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 215 Thin-spaces being..Cast only that the Compositer may Justifie his Lines the Truer.1732 S. Palmer Gen. Hist. Printing ii. ii. 123 They likewise invented such variety of spaces, as kept a beautiful distance between the words and made their impressions appear with the greatest neatness and exactness.1771 P. Luckombe Hist. & Art of Printing 279 The Dutch..cast the greatest part of their Spaces to thiner sized than most Compositors care for.1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 161 Spaces are cast to such a regular gradation, that no excuse can be offered..for irregular spacing.1889 Science 25 Jan. 57/1 When movable types are used..the compositor, when the line is nearly completed, puts thicker or thinner spaces between the words.1904 T. L. De Vinne Mod. Methods Bk. Composition i. 11 The lower case has fifty four boxes, which contain the lower-case characters, figures, points, spaces, and quadrats.1963 W. C. Kenneison & A. J. B. Spilman Dict. Printing 92 High quads (or spaces), spaces cast to the height of the shoulder of type.2000 A. Campbell Designer's Lexicon 169 Space, a ‘blank’ (nonprinting) spacer piece, used singly or in multiples, to create the spaces in text.c. Telecommunications. An interval between consecutive marks in a mark–space signalling system such as telegraphy. Opposed to mark n.1 19b.1840 S. F. B. Morse U.S. Patent 1647 2/1 Signs of letters consist in variations of the dots, marks, and dots and lines, and spaces of separation of the same formation as compose the signs of numerals.1859 T. P. Shaffner Telegr. Man. xxxiv. 469 The length of the mark or of the space upon the ribbon paper will be precisely the same as the length of the contact made with the key.1906 A. E. Kennelly Wireless Telegr. xi. 153 A dash has the length of three dots, and the space separating dots or dashes in a letter are [sic] of dot length.1954 Electronic Engin. 26 230/1 The principle..is to explore the centre of each received signal element..to determine whether it is ‘mark’ or ‘space’, and use the information so obtained to initiate new signals of correct length.1993 F. H. Hinsley in F. H. Hinsley & A. Stripp Codebreakers xviii. 142 Very accurate timing was required if their unbroken stream of elements was to be divided correctly into their components of mark and space.17. Mathematics. An instance of any of various mathematical concepts, usually regarded as a set of points having some specified structure. Usually with distinguishing word.function, Hilbert, metric, phase, projective, topological, vector space, etc.: see the first element.1900 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 22 336 One speaks of the geometries of metric space, of unilateral and bilateral projective space.1911 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 287 It is not always necessary to set up a definition of distance for the Hilbert space; for other domains of objects to do so might be very difficult or even impossible.1932 M. H. Stone Linear Transformations in Hilbert Space i. 1 The word ‘space’ has gradually acquired a mathematical significance so broad that it is virtually equivalent to the word ‘class’, as used in logic.1963 G. F. Simmons Introd. Topol. & Mod. Anal. i. 5 When some kind of algebraic or geometric structure is imposed on a set, so that its elements are organized into a systematic whole, then it becomes a space.2006 P. Woit Not even Wrong xvii. 241 These fluxes are generalisations of magnetic fields to higher dimensions, with the fields trapped by the topology of the Calabi–Yau space.PhrasesPhrases and proverbs.†P1. out of space: out of proper place or relationship; in confusion. Cf. sense 12b. Obsolete. rare—1.▸ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 679 (MED) Min herte..Som time of hire is sore adrad, And som time it is overglad, Al out of reule and out of space.P2.a. (for) a space: for a short period of time; for a while. Cf. sense 5a. Now rare.c1405 (▸c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2118 Theseus abiden hath a space Er any word cam from his wise brest.a1450 York Plays (1885) 115 A starne to be schynyng a space.c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. N Ellys must he ryse and walke hymselfe a space.1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxxviiiv She with all the Ladyes entered the tentes, and there warmed them a space.1574 J. Higgins 1st Pt. Mirour for Magistrates Cordila f. 50v If I departed for a space withall.1655 in W. B. Cook Stirling Antiquary (1900) II. 18 The session..suspends the sd William from his eldership for a space.?1690 T. Watson in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxxxvii. 1 The other leaves..for a space hang down their heads.1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xviii. 389 Yet a space I stay, Then swift pursue thee on the darksome way.1767 H. Hartson Countess of Salisbury v. 64 I wou'd have fled, but horror for a space Suspended every power.1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xxxiii. 216 He paused a space, his brow he cross'd.1877 ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings I. ii. 26 Meantime deep peace fell for a space on the family.1883 Longman's Mag. July 270 Knights!..leave him lying here a space.1930 Africa 3 216 I have made a trial of them and waited a space and thought it over.1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Dec. 1561/5 There they simmer down for a space, forget their mundane cares.b.space of time n. a period of time.c1500 Melusine (1895) 335 (MED) He came to Nerbonne where he rested hym a lytel space of tyme.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Intercapedo After a space of time.1657 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (1661) 244 A good space of time to do it in.1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. xiv. 371 To avoid them and their communications, for however short a space of time, was now her sole aim.1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. I. 230 The number of the vibrations in any given space of time.1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 18/1 We want to accomplish as much as possible in the shortest space of time.2004 Jockey Slut Feb. 92/2 I've never learnt so much in such a short space of time.c. (in the) mean space (see mean adj.2 2).†d. in space comes grace (cf. grace n. 5). Obsolete.[a1536 H. Newton in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 65 (1950) 269 In space comes fortune and grace.]1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iv. sig. B In space comth grace.a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. iii. sig. E.jv Good happe is not hastie: yet in space comth grace.1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule ii. 186 The seedes of grace are like Corne, they are not ripe the first day they are sowen, but ripen by degrees: From this is that saying, Grace requyreth space, or in space commeth Grace.1694 J. Strype Memorials T. Cranmer App. 214 This being natural unto al that be in jeopardie of liffe..at the least to have tyme al desire: followeng that proverb, In space comyth grace.†P3. from space to space: at (regular) intervals. Cf. sense 13. Obsolete.1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 244 You shall rail the bed about (as I directed you concerning Salsifix) or else stake them from space to space, to which you shall tie them up.1700 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 22 673 It is divided from space to space into rings.1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 368 To hang upon the vines, from space to space (the nearer the better), phials half filled with sugared water.1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ix. 114 A heavy balustrade, ornamented from space to space with huge grotesque figures of animals. View more context for this quotation1831 W. Scott Count Robert vi, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 150 A long,..arched passage, well supplied with air from space to space.1873 W. D. Howells Chance Acquaintance iii. 73 It is sheer rock, springing from the black water, and stretching upward with a weary, effort-like aspect, in long impulses of stone marked by deep seams from space to space.P4. figurative. into space: into oblivion; completely out of sight or existence. Cf. sense 10.1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. i. 7 All Dubarrydom rushes off, with tumult, into infinite Space.1873 A. Helps Some Talk about Animals & their Masters i. 6 The pamphlet has vanished into space.1892 Spectator 2 Apr. 451/2 He broke away,..and plunged, with a few followers, apparently into space!1925 Times 13 Aug. 15/5 The wine-maidens..vanished into space to leave a pleasant memory behind.2000 Crain's Chicago Business (Nexis) 19 June 11 When I was in broadcast, I knew that if I screwed up a sound bite or quote, it would likely be forgotten quickly as the words vanished into space.P5.a. watch this space!: (originally Journalism) an injunction to observe this publication or advertising space closely for further developments or information. Now frequently figurative and in extended use. Cf. senses 7d, 11e.1869 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 8 Jan. The Vicksburg Times has a somewhat remarkable advertisement. The words ‘Watch this space closely–ten days—let the people be prepared’, occupy a half column in the paper.1893 Lafayette (Louisiana) Advertiser 18 Nov. By special arrangement this Space is reserved for our regular Advertisers. Our readers are requested to watch this space in their own interest.1917 B.E.F. Times 20 Jan. 15/2 (advt.) Watch this Space.1979 J. Rathbone Euro-killers iv. 44 Where is he? Watch this space for exciting revelations in the next few days.2005 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 12 July 5 He's got a three-year contract with New Zealand. We'll be keeping an eye on him, though, and three years down the line, well watch this space.b. Journalism (originally U.S.) on space: on the basis of payment according to article length; (also) employed on this basis. Cf. sense 7c.1886 Fresno (Calif.) Daily Republican 6 May (headline) Working on space.1890 Warren (Pa.) Ledger 14 Mar. 2/3 Other correspondents are generally paid on space for their work.1894 E. L. Shuman Steps into Journalism 83 Articles by the beginner are nearly always submitted ‘on space’.1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 202 The woman..if she is ‘on space’ will soon find the editors with ‘no work on hand to-day—sorry—hope something will turn up to-morrow’ attitudes.1933 E. Waugh Scoop iii. i. 259 I've only been on the paper three weeks... It is the first time I've drawn any money... I'm ‘on space’, you see.1971 D. Ayerst Guardian xxv. 357 Williams represented the Guardian in St Petersburg at first on a small salary..and then..on space.2003 T. C. Smythe Gilded Age Press 1865–1900 i. 7 The Herald sent George Alfred Townsend, an experienced, thirty-year-old reporter working on space (he was paid for expenses and the length of his articles) to Scuffletown.CompoundsC1.a. (In sense 16.) With the sense ‘used for spacing (in printing, typing, etc.)’, as space-gauge, space-key, †space-line, space-rule; (also) ‘used for holding spaces’, as space-box, space-paper.1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. v. 122 Rules are either Brass rules, Metal rules, or Space rules.1795 W. Caslon Specimen Printing Types Space lines, 4 to English and..4 to Pica.1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Space-lines, printers' leads for justifying, or filling up lines or words, made from 4 to 12 in pica.1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Space-rule, a thin piece of metal, type-height, of different lengths, used by compositors for making a delicate line in algebraic and other formulæ.1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2677/1 By holding the space-key [of a type-writer] down while an ‘I’ and ‘S’ are struck.1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 129. Space box, a small try with six or eight divisions.1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 129. Space paper, another term for ‘space barge’.1895 E. Collyns Typists' Man. 17 The space between the lines is regulated by the ‘Space Gauge’.1904 T. L. De Vinne Mod. Methods Bk. Composition ii. 56 Space-rules are short pieces of metal rule of hairline face, on 2-point body, cast to even ems and ens of the regular bodies, but chiefly to bodies of 6- 8- 10- 12- and 18-point.2006 Financial Times (Nexis) 20 Sept. 10 Press the Space key after you have typed the complete word.b. Relating to space (branch II.) as a general concept, as space-consciousness, space continuum, space-effect, space-element, space harmony, space-image, space-occupancy, space-perception, space-relation, space-sensation, space-sense, space-symmetry, space-value, etc.1841 M. Stuart Gram. New Test. Dial. 185 The original space-relation..may be easily discovered in a great variety of phrases which now designate causal relations.1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. vii. §71. 250 We can mentally diminish the velocity or space-element of motion.1865 S. H. Hodgson Time & Space ii. 75 The space-senses sight and touch..are brought into play simultaneously with the other senses.1872 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) II. vi. xiv. 196 Some space-consciousness accompanies the sensation of taste.1872 J. R. Green Lett. (1901) 338 The most wonderful church in point of space-effect (if I may coin the word) I ever saw.1875 G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind II. 278 What is signified in speaking of material extension is space-occupancy.1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 286 It is essential that the directions..should be unmistakably distinguished in the space-image.1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 195 Let the movement bc, of a certain joint, derive its absolute space-value from the cutaneous feeling it is always capable of engendering.1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 219 We must..seek to discover by what means the circumstances can so have transformed a space-sensation.1893 Month Apr. 483 It is contrary to all our experience of space-occupancy.1911 W. James Some Probl. Philos. xi. 182 God, as the orthodox believe, created the space-continuum, with its infinite parts already standing in it, by an instantaneous fiat.1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind 72 Psychology of space-perception.1932 F. L. Wright Autobiogr. ii. 145 Freedom of floorspace and elimination of useless heights worked a miracle in the new dwelling place... An entirely new sense of space values in architecture came home.1949 Social Forces 28 42/2 The student, by following a carefully phrased set of map instructions, works out the space relations (both geomatic and relative) as well as significant surface features.1957 H. Read Tenth Muse xxxi. 279 A distinction between an aesthetic consciousness determined by time-sense (music and poetry) and an aesthetic consciousness determined by space-sense (the plastic arts).1965 W. Lamb Posture & Gesture iv. 56 The process of variation, sometimes under the heading Narrow-Wide, is recognized and figures as a component in ‘Space Harmonies’.1979 Nature 11 Oct. 433/1 Depending on the symmetry of the lattice and of the arrangement of the atoms within each cell, a crystal is assigned to one of the 230 possible space-symmetry groups.1993 Appliance (Nexis) May 59 On the commercial level, they seek space-consciousness because space is expense right now.c. Mathematics. space-coordinate, space-integral, space-point, etc.1873 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism II. 187 The work done by the force J 1 during the impulse is the space integral of the force.1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 87 The rolling of the Body Centrode on the Space Centrode.1888 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1887 507 Certain relations which held between the fluid velocities u, v, w, and their space-derivatives at any point of a rigid boundary.1936 E. J. Berg Heaviside's Operational Calculus (ed. 2) 183 Here I is related to the space-variation of E in the same formal manner as E to the space-variation of I.1970 G. K. Woodgate Elem. Atomic Struct. iii. 41 rris the space-co-ordinate of the incident wave at the position of the ith electron.2007 Jrnl. Colloid & Interface Sci. 309 353/2 L13and ωelare space-integral operators and position dependent quantities, respectively.d. Originally U.S. ( In senses 7c, 7d, 11e.) With the sense ‘paid by or assessed upon the extent of space occupied’, as space-artist, space-writer; space-bill, space rate, space writing; (also) relating to the purchase of (advertising, etc.) space, as space-buyer, space salesman.1883 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Gaz. 19 Aug. 4/4 Editorial writers..rarely make as much money as space writers.1887 Westm. Rev. Oct. 858 The general substitution of ‘space writing’ for the work of salaried reporters.1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 207 [By] the ‘guarantee space’ system..a member of the staff is guaranteed a stipulated sum of money every week, and as much over that amount as he or she makes by writing at ordinary or special space-rates.1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 233 Space artists get paid two dollars a single-column cut.1939 F. M. Ford Let. 14 Mar. (1965) 316 You can be certain of occupying a certain space in the pages of the Review and being paid at the usual..space rates.1948 G. V. Galwey Lift & Drop i. 11 Mrs Lawson, the space~buyer of Rooster's.1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing iv. xxxv. 377 Dr. Magnus..was now space-salesman for an obscure little Polish gazette.1972 G. Bromley In Absence of Body iii. 41 He's the chief space buyer.1988 Media Week 2 Sept. 14/2 With rare and splendid exceptions space salesmen are not statisticians.2001 Isis 92 487 Howard suggested that Burbank's celebrity derived from the need for ‘space-writers’ to fill up column inches for an audience of ‘parlor naturalists and lovers of the wonderful in nature.’e. (In sense 8). With reference to outer space regarded as a field of human activity, as space bus, space conquest, space crew, space doctor, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately (see Compounds 3). Many of them are modelled on analogous uses of air.1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 410/1 Mr. Walsh's space-liner..travelling on the Earth–Mars–Venus route..derives nothing from its predecessors.1939 L. del Rey in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Aug. 15/1 In an emergency, no group of men on Earth can do the work that a space-crew can turn out in a scant half-hour.1942 Astounding Sci.-Fiction Mar. 73/2 I will make one more hypothesis: it is that we Earth people are today on the verge of space conquest, and that any race further advanced than we must have already mastered space flight.1951 A. C. Clarke Sands of Mars x. 126 Visiting space-crews..soon got bored if they had nothing to do between trips.1953 J. N. Leonard Flight into Space xi. 103 Using the scientific method of dissecting a many-sided problem into its separate parts, the space doctors discuss and study the dangers of space individually.1961 New Scientist 27 July 216 Ultimately, the space bus named Ranger will find its way to the moon, running on electric power drawn from the sun.1961 Aeroplane 100 184/1 The one-man ‘space tug’ would be used for assembling a large space-station in orbit.1966 Observer 4 Dec. 2/7 American scientists are planning ‘space lifeboats’ to rescue the crews of disabled spaceships.1970 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 28 355 The shape, the style, the form of an art museum must necessarily differ from that of a maritime museum or a natural history museum or a space museum.1982 A. Hemingway Pzyche i. 16 The castaway..was a former waiter on a spaceliner.1989 Space Policy 5 60 The era of space conquest has now given way to an era of space exploitation.2007 Virginian–Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia) (Nexis) 22 Apr. a16 He then bit enthusiastically into a green apple—a traditional offering for space crews touching down in Kazakhstan.f. Designating sprays designed to produce aerosol droplets that will remain suspended in the air for an extended period.1948 Science 12 Mar. 277/1 The space-spray tests were conducted in 100-cu ft cabinets.1974 M. O. Johnson in J. J. Sciarra & L. Stoller Sci. & Technol. Aerosol Packaging xx. 541 (heading) Air fresheners and space bactericides.1997 Stud. Conservation 42 207/1 These involve the use of toxic insecticides which are applied either as a surface treatment, a space spray, or as a crack and crevice spray.C2.a. With adjectives and past participles, as space-based, space-cramped, space-dependent, space-embosomed, space-spanned, space-spread, †space-thick, etc.1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 99 Space thick; that is, one quarter so thick as the Body is high.1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 207 Visiting The spirits in their space-embosomed homes.1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 217 The shade Of Death's dark valley. And his space-spread wings.1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Jan. 3/1 Our extracts, space-cramped as they necessarily are.1931 C. Day Lewis From Feathers to Iron 45 Space-spanned, God-girdled, love will keep Its form, being planned of bone.1958 I. Asimov Naked Sun viii. 107 Try getting rid of me against my will and you'll be looking down the throats of space-based artillery.1962 D. R. Corson & P. Lorrain Introd. Electromagn. Fields 534 Space~dependent functions can also be represented with the exponential notation.1972 Guardian 9 Feb. 3/8 The US is evolving..an entire space-based defence network.2006 Nexus (U.K./Europe ed.) Feb. 55/2 Reagan had envisaged the development of space-based intercept systems.(Hide quotations)b. With present participles and related nouns, as space-devouring, space-filling, space-occupying, space-penetrating, space-travelling, space-wasting, etc.[1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 505 The all-space-filling Mundane soul.]1800 Philos. Trans. 90 81 The space-penetrating power is no higher than what will suffice for the purpose.1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (Bohn) 62 The soul was a thinking substance, and the body a space-filling substance.1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 326 Space-pervading, oh! ye must be, Spirit-like, infinite.1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 222 Space-piercing shadow alighting on the face Of some fair planet.1870 H. Spencer First Princ. (rev. ed.) ii. vi. §58. 187 The space-occupying kind of force.1907 W. James Let. 14 Feb. (1920) II. 265 The magnificent space-devouring Subway roaring me back and forth.1929 Science Jan. 2/1 The telescope should be designed to give great space-penetrating power.1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 108 His time travelling is like the space travelling of a character like Douglas Fairbanks.1962 F. W. Householder in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 281 Others objected to them as (a) space-wasting, (b) often irrelevant and unhelpful.1979 J. Paton Sea of Rings xv. 122 We've never encountered any other space-travelling civilisation.1989 R. MacNeil Wordstruck i. 27 Like David's treatment by the gluttonous waiter or the space-hogging passengers on the coach to London.2007 Plymouth Evening Herald (Nexis) 13 Apr. 45 A mechanised, space-saving storage product, which uses underfloor cavities to maximise the living area in the home.And if you’re using it as a verb:†1. intransitive. To pace or walk; to ramble or roam. Cf. spacier v. Obsolete.a1425 (▸c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Corpus Cambr. 61) (1895) v. l.1791 But litel book no makyng thow nenvie, But subgit be to alle Poyesye, And kis the steppes where as thow seest space [a1413 Morgan pace] Uirgile, Ouide, Omer, Lucan, and Stace.c1485 (▸1456) G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxiii. 94 Quhen..thou haue etyn ynouche..rest the, and syne efter—space a litill.1530 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 235 He..past fwit be fwit with my said lord..in spasing and bounding of the dyk.a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 137 The said Maister George spaced up and doune behynd the hie altar more then half ane houre.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. viii. sig. H6 That he sometimes may space And walke about her gardens of delight. View more context for this quotationa1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vi. lv, in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Hh6v That Wolues, where she was wont to space, Should harbour'd be.2. transitive. To measure (ground, etc.) by pacing. Also with out. Scottish and English regional in later use.a1450 (▸1408) tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 64v (MED) Þus þanne by þi lond meteres þy feeld moot be mesured & spased out [L. colligi] by foot mesure to eueriche companye þat to hym nedith.1657 T. Hill Let. 1 Oct. in Familar Lett. (1767) vi. 18 There is a pair of globes; the compass of them, as I spaced it, was twelve large steps.1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words (at cited word) 'Tis jest thahty rod—I spaced it.1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Speeace, space. ‘Speeac'd out’, as land in divisions.1920 R. H. Calder Gleanings 10 Gyaun like a chiel spacin' tatie grun'.1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) 126/2 Space, to measure ground. One spaces it out by taking yard long paces.1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 284/2 Space, to measure by spacing.†3. transitive. Usually in passive. To limit or bound in respect of space; to make of a certain extent. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.).1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Ciii Not placely as ther placed spaced, and mesured, but ghostly; as ther unplaced unspaced, and not measured.1578 Gorg. Gallery Gallant Inv. I Her forehead seemely spaste, wherin doo shine her eyes.a1628 F. Greville Cælica Prol., in Certaine Learned & Elegant Wks. (1633) 2 A place there is..Deepe vnder depthes..; darke, infinitely spaced: Pluto the King.1835 Fraser's Mag. 12 416 In so far as Lamarck has defined nature to be motion,..space, and time, without reference to a being moving or moved,..or being timed and spaced.†4. transitive. Apparently: to pave or lay. Obsolete. rare—1.a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) VII. 60 Ther is a very large Courte buildyd about with Tymbar and spacyd withe Brike.†5. transitive. To divide into spaces or sections. Frequently with by or with. Obsolete.1557–8 in R. Adam Edinb. Rec. (1899) II. 95 xviij faddom of ane gret cobill tow to the wyndais that drew owpe the cradill..ane pound wecht of small towis to spais the gret towe with.1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 564 The stalke is crested, holowe within, spaced by joyntes or knobbes.1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 2nd Pt. i. iv. sig. Givv So space your roomes, as the nyne worthyes may, Be so instauld, as best may please the eye.6. Typography.a. transitive. With out: To extend (printed matter) to a required length by inserting additional space between the words (or lines); to justify.1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 246 He intends to Space-out the rest if it were not too Wide Set at first.1732 S. Palmer Gen. Hist. Printing iii. iii. 340 This edition is the only one whose lines are not spaced out to the end.1797 L. W. Brüggemann View Eng. Editions, Transl. & Illustr. Anc. Greek & Lat. Authors 179 This book is neatly printed in double columns, with the lines spaced out to the end.1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 132 The improved method of spacing out the lines.1892 A. Oldfield Pract. Man. Typogr. ii. 25 [It is advisable] to read copy whilst spacing out the line.1916 Math. Gaz. 8 221 This specimen is highly misleading, because the letterpress is ‘leaded’, the lines of printing being spaced out by strips of lead inserted between them.1950 D. G. Hymes Production in Advertising iii. 204 Space out, to insert spaces between words or letters in order to make the line of type cover a specified measure.2002 P. Baines & A. Haslam Type & Typogr. iv. 73/1 Other larger spaces—known as quads—were used to space out lines.b. transitive. To separate (words, lines, etc.) by means of a space or spaces; (occasionally) to justify, space out.1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 51 A good Workman..who has taken care to space his matter well.1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 249 The care the Compositor took in spacing his matter.1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. vi. 160 Where a line is even spaced, and yet requires justification.1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians & Philemon 231/1 This idea is..expressed..in the words which are spaced.1928 Math. Gaz. 14 26 Columns and lines are spaced in modern fashion.1993 R. Watt in R. Sassoon Computers & Typogr. v. 178 Choices can be made concerning how it will appear, what letterforms are used, how the lines are spaced, how the words are spaced in a line and so on.7.a. transitive. To put or arrange at set intervals or distances. Also reflexive and intransitive.1700 J. Monro Let. 22 Aug. in Miscellanea Curiosa (Royal Soc.) (1708) III. 399 There is provided a noble and a vast convenience full of variety for the others, to space themselves freely and with pleasure in.1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. xiv. 23 This manner of spacing the Columns, is..call'd Diastylos.1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 115 The flooring Joists..are to be..spaced at 18 Inches asunder.1869 Sci. Amer. 25 Sept. 198/3 The divisions and subdivisions of this and every other dial are spaced with geometrical precision.1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 299/2 Some of the machines space as well as bore or mortise.1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Oct. 5/1 Each spar was spaced 8 ft. apart.1946 B. Macdonald Egg & I III. viii. 96 Spaced along other walls were bureaus, bookcases, kitchen queen, work tables and a black leather sofa.1978 T. O'Brien Going after Cacciato xlvi. 337 They spaced themselves ten meters apart.1991 Do It Yourself Feb. 41/2 Place four setts in the centre, then work outwards in a ring formation, spacing by eye and adjusting as necessary.b. transitive. With out. Also reflexive.1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 156 You space out and range all the others by them.1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 160 The Plants are spaced out..at three Foot Distances.1797 Communications to Board of Agric. I. 214 The field is thus prepared..and the beans spaced out eighteen inches from each other.1896 Guide Fossil Reptiles & Fishes Brit. Mus. 119 Sparnodus..is an extinct genus [of fish].., having the teeth somewhat ‘spaced out’.1896 C. K. Paul tr. J.-K. Huysman En Route ii. iv. 219 Mortifications space themselves out, fatigues are distributed over years and, on the whole, are easily borne.1899 Daily News 19 Dec. 5/1 Ice..must..be thicker than that if it is to support a body of troops, or the men must be properly spaced out.1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps vi. 128 There were men below..spaced out on the hillside like a fan.1967 Listener 6 Apr. 459/1 One of the effects of holding an area of land for breeding in any one season is certainly to space out the individuals of a population.2007 Modesto (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 17 Mar. b1 (caption) Cadets space themselves out before the inspection.8. intransitive. With out. Originally U.S. slang. To experience a drug-induced state of euphoria; to become disoriented by or as if by the use of narcotic stimulus. Cf. spaced adj. 3.1968 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 ii. 45 Space out, to lose one's train of thought while under the influence of a drug.1970 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 4 iii–iv. 24 Space out, to achieve an euphoric state because of drug use.1970 N.Y. Mag. 16 Nov. 48/3 Karenga..looks like he's going crazy or spacing out on dope.1983 Village Voice (N.Y.) 15 Mar. 35/3 I think I'm just beginning to space out... I have a vision.2005 Weekend Austral. (Brisbane) 17 Dec. (Review section) 15/3 I find McCullough hard to read... I'm always asleep before she gets to the set-up, spaced out by her overwriting.And there’s this obsolete sense of the word:A type or kind (of money, etc.).1591 Sc. Acts, Jas. VI (1814) III. 526/1 The diuersitie and chois of sindry space of money current within the same [sc. the realm].1591 Sc. Acts, Jas. VI (1814) III. 526/1 In ressauing and geving furth..all spaces of gold and siluer.1612 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Rec. Coinage Scotl. (1876) I. c, The space of forane money maid current at 50 s. The Spanis ryall, xlv s. [etc.].