(~s, spacing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
You use ~ to refer to an area that is empty or available. The area can be any size. For example, you can refer to a large area outside as a large open ~ or to a small area between two objects as a small ~.
Under the plan, bits of open ~–fields, golf-course borders and small parks–will be preserved.
...cutting down yet more trees to make ~ for houses...
I had plenty of ~ to write and sew...
The ~ underneath could be used as a storage area...
List in the ~s below the specific changes you have made.
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2.
A particular kind of ~ is the area that is available for a particular activity or for putting a particular kind of thing in.
...the high cost of office ~...
Finding a parking ~ in the summer months is still a virtual impossibility...
N-VAR: usu supp N
3.
If a place gives a feeling of ~, it gives an impression of being large and open.
Large paintings can enhance the feeling of ~ in small rooms...
N-UNCOUNT: oft n of N
4.
If you give someone ~ to think about something or to develop as a person, you allow them the time and freedom to do this.
You need ~ to think everything over...
= room
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5.
The amount of ~ for a topic to be discussed in a document is the number of pages available to discuss the topic.
We can’t promise to publish a reply as ~ is limited.
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6.
A ~ of time is a period of time.
They’ve come a long way in a short ~ of time...
N-SING: N of n
7.
Space is the area beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, where the stars and planets are.
The six astronauts on board will spend ten days in ~.
...launching satellites into ~.
...outer ~.
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8.
Space is the whole area within which everything exists.
The physical universe is finite in ~ and time.
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9.
If you ~ a series of things, you arrange them so that they are not all together but have gaps or intervals of time between them.
Women once again are having fewer children and spacing them further apart...
His voice was angry and he ~d the words for emphasis.
VERB: V n adv/prep, V n
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Space out means the same as ~ .
He talks quite slowly and ~s his words out...
I was spacing out the seedlings into divided trays...
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
spacing
Generous spacing gives healthier trees and better crops.
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10.
see also spacing , air~ , breathing ~ , outer ~ , personal ~
11.
If you are staring into ~, you are looking straight in front of you, without actually looking at anything in particular, for example because you are thinking or because you are feeling shocked.
He just sat in the dressing-room staring into ~...
PHRASE: PHR after v