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单词 space-devouring
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space-devouring
b. With present participles and related nouns, as space-devouring, space-filling, space-occupying, space-penetrating, space-travelling, space-wasting, etc.
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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.
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