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单词 interspace
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interspacen.

Brit. /ˈɪntəspeɪs/, U.S. /ˈɪn(t)ərˌspeɪs/
Etymology: inter- prefix 1b(c).
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.

/ɪntəˈspeɪs/
Etymology: inter- prefix 1a.
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).
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