space
part of speech
noun (space, spaces); verb (space, spaces, spaced, spacing)
meaning for a pupil
1) The area beyond the Earth's air where the planets and stars are: "outer space". tree →
2) An empty area: "a parking space", "space to play". tree →
3) Room, amount of area available: "There's no space." tree →
4) The gap between words or things. tree →
5) A period of time: "in the space of an hour". tree →
6) As a verb, to put things with gaps between them. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, space has no air, so there is no sound and astronauts need spacesuits; the Earth, Moon, Sun and planets are in space. In maths, shapes take up space (area, volume). In writing, leave spaces between words. Phrases: outer space, space station, spaceship, personal space, take up space, make space.
examples
- Astronauts travel into space. tree →
- There is no air in space. tree →
- Leave a space between words. tree →
- Is there space for one more? tree →
- Respect people's personal space. tree →
- Space the plants ten centimetres apart. tree →
- The International Space Station goes around the Earth. tree →
- Find a space and sit down. tree →
- He longed to soar through space. tree →
note
Space (outer space) has no air — not cold air, no air at all. Volume tells how much space a 3D shape takes; area tells how much flat space. "Personal space" is the space around your body.
In the corpora
- Living close to other people means sharing streets, walls, parking spaces and rules.
- «That Mr Hollis has parked in Number 9's space AGAIN.
- Third time this week!» What she saw is one car in one space on Tuesday.
- The confirmed part of a street story is what someone actually saw, like a car parked in a space on Tuesday.
- Exaggeration that everyone knows is a joke, like lights «seen from space», is harmless fun.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «space» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.