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单词 space-key
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space-key
a. (In sense 16.) With the sense ‘used for spacing (in printing, typing, etc.)’, as space-gauge, space-key, †space-line, space-rule; (also) ‘used for holding spaces’, as space-box, space-paper.
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1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. v. 122 Rules are either Brass rules, Metal rules, or Space rules.
1795 W. Caslon Specimen Printing Types Space lines, 4 to English and..4 to Pica.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Space-lines, printers' leads for justifying, or filling up lines or words, made from 4 to 12 in pica.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Space-rule, a thin piece of metal, type-height, of different lengths, used by compositors for making a delicate line in algebraic and other formulæ.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2677/1 By holding the space-key [of a type-writer] down while an ‘I’ and ‘S’ are struck.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 129. Space box, a small try with six or eight divisions.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 129. Space paper, another term for ‘space barge’.
1895 E. Collyns Typists' Man. 17 The space between the lines is regulated by the ‘Space Gauge’.
1904 T. L. De Vinne Mod. Methods Bk. Composition ii. 56 Space-rules are short pieces of metal rule of hairline face, on 2-point body, cast to even ems and ens of the regular bodies, but chiefly to bodies of 6- 8- 10- 12- and 18-point.
2006 Financial Times (Nexis) 20 Sept. 10 Press the Space key after you have typed the complete word.
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