单词 | interspace |
释义 | interspacen. 1. A space between two things; intermediate or intervening space, interval. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [noun] > intervening space spacec1350 interspacec1420 interval1489 distance1559 intervacuuma1633 vacuity1658 intervale1683 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. ii. 88 Yf diches plese, hem make, and thre feet depe..Thyn entre space in oon maner thou kepe. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Intermezzo,..an interspace. 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus ii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 107 [The crown] was framed..with an intersection in the middle from the main crossing barres, and the interspaces, unto the frontal circle, continued by handsome network-plates. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 41/2 The Ancients..made a grate of brass..and filled up the interspaces of this grate..with a transparent sort of stone. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Zapolya iv. ii. 123 Our messengers are posted With such short interspace, that fast as sound Can travel to us, we shall learn the event. 1866 S. Laing Pre-hist. Remains Caithness 32 Consisting of concentric circular walls with cells or chambers in the interspaces between the walls. 2. A space of time between two events, etc.; an interval of time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of time between events or interval waya1300 distancec1330 interstition1390 spacea1400 pastimea1513 vacance1533 intermission?1566 vacation1567 intervallum1574 interim1579 between-timea1586 wem1599 parenthesis1600 intermedium1611 betweena1616 fore-while?1615 interpolation1615 vacancya1616 interval1616 interstitium1624 slatcha1625 interspace1629 intermissa1633 between-spacea1641 interregnum1659 intervalea1661 interlapse1666 interlude1751 in-between1815 lapse1817 intermezzo1851 meanwhile1872 1629 tr. Herodian Hist. (1635) 186 The inter-space betwixt the past and present Celebrity, exceeded the longest Age of Men. a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 27 To gather up more at the Interspaces of Leisure, then others do at their Study. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 379 Men..separated by the interspace of ages. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxvii. 173 During one of those little interspaces of repose and hope which occur in even the most persecuted lives. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). interspacev. transitive. To put a space or interval between; to occupy or fill the space or interval between. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [verb (transitive)] > intervene between interpose1599 intercede1614 interspace1861 1861 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture ii. iii. 266 Intelligent feeding, which is interspaced by rest. 1886 H. James Bostonians II. ii. xxi. 58 He bagan to interspace his visits considerably, and at last made them very rare. 1889 R. F. Horton Inspiration & Bible vi. 143 It is necessary sometimes to interspace, if we may so term it, the Biblical records. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.c1420v.1861 |
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