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spacern.1

Brit. /ˈspeɪsə/, U.S. /ˈspeɪsər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: space v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < space v. + -er suffix1.
1. A space between two fixed points in the heavens; cf. space n.1 13a. Obsolete. rare.Elsewhere in the text cited in quot. 1697, the more usual word space is found, and the use of spacer here may represent a typographical error.
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1697 T. Creech in tr. Manilius Five Bks. ii. 82 (margin) The intermediate Spacers.
2.
a. An object or device used to make a space, interval, or division; (also) a mechanism that regulates or controls spacing.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > [noun] > for performing other processes
purchase1711
adjuster1747
concentrator1804
steamer1814
isolator1855
spacer1857
tumbler1857
plough1860
aspirator1863
trap1877
tumbling-box1877
plicater1880
comparator1883
tumbler-drum1883
rumbling barrel1894
copier1917
programmer1945
simulator1947
tensioner1950
platformer1953
hydrogasifier1966
snubber1972
society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > spacing material
reglet1636
space1676
headstick1683
quadrat1683
quotation1683
rule1683
space1683
quadc1781
spacer1857
mutton1938
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun]
reeler1598
driver1659
rubber1747
heading machine1795
bruiser1809
finisher1835
stripper1835
physionotype1836
rotary1836
tetraspaston1842
netting-machine1846
speeder1847
dresser1855
spacer1857
starcher1862
bronzing liquid, machine1865
finishing machine1869
grader1869
brain machine1872
peanut roaster1872
bending machine1874
screw-machine1876
tire-upsetting-machine1877
buncher?1881
flax-breaker1889
oscillator1889
fluoroscope1893
fluorometer1897
mucker1916
spray dryer1921
paver1926
teabagger1940
burster1950
icemaker1953
laminator1958
slipform (concrete) paver1958
extruder1959
Zamboni1965
manipulator1968
wave machine1968
pipelayer1969
walking machine1971
1857 J. A. Turner Cotton Planter's Man. 72 On or about the 10th of April, the cotton seeds were planted after a spacer, by which the hills are regulated precisely as desired.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 911/2 By touching now the justifying-key, he caused the spacer to draw the line into another part of the [type-composing] machine to be justified.
1904 in Cent. Dict. Suppl. (at cited word) These ventilating spaces are obtained by means of metal spacers.
1943 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Apr. 26/3 She figured out a way to save countless man-hours in the manufacture of spacers—small rubber rings used in Rolls Royce airplane engines.
1954 Automobile Engineer 44 508/3 A tubular spacer and two thrust washers round the shaft separate the roller bearings.
2006 Peak District Life Spring 37/1 (advt.) External stone and slate for patios, gardens etc. All ancillaries you may need, including trims, spacers, adhesives and grout.
b. Archaeology. More fully spacer plate. A flat bead perforated with several holes in the same plane, by which the threads of a multi-strand necklace are held apart.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > artefacts
scyphus1722
ceraunite1814
skyphos1847
shaft-hole1852
ostracon1853
scramasax1862
shard1865
ovate1872
omphalos1884
stop-ridge1894
tsung1904
pygmy flint1907
spacer1907
dotaku1908
yuan1912
roughout1913
rostro-carinate1919
shawabti1922
racloir1923
shoe-last1927
sleeve1929
ard1931
proto-biface1967
1907 W. Hough Antiq. Upper Gila & Salt River Valleys 21 Oblong turquoise beads like the spacers in modern Pueblo necklaces, and polished stone and shell beads were found in profusion.
1940 V. G. Childe Prehist. Communities Brit. Isles vii. 124 In Ireland..the crescentic necklace was translated into a crescentic collar, cut out of a sheet of native gold and relieved with designs in panels, imitating the spacer-plates of the necklaces.
2001 World Archeol. 33 341 Both gold lunulae and jet necklaces are typically decorated with lozenge or triangular motifs on their spacer-plates or upper section.
c. Medicine. A tube or chamber that is placed by the user between a pressurized aerosol inhaler and his or her mouth in order to improve delivery of a measured dose of the drug.
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1979 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Dec. 1479/1 The interposition of a tube spacer between the aerosol and the mouth reduces the deposition of drug.
1989 European Respiratory Jrnl. 2 377 Equally effective bronchodilatation may be obtained with metered-dose inhalers combined with valved spacers.
2001 Times 24 Apr. ii. 10/2 Recent evidence suggests that five to ten puffs from a conventional inhaler through a ‘spacer’ bottle will help to ease his breathing.
3. A person who or thing which spaces, or allows space, in a particular manner. rare.
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the world > space > [noun] > sufficient space or room > one who or that which allows space
spacer1888
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 698/2 It [sc. the cylindrical typewriting machine] is a variable spacer, giving more space to..m and w than to..i, t, and l.
1982 J. Kingdon East Afr. Mammals (1989) IIIC. c. 390 Territories are a very effective spacer of male waterbuck along their littoral habitats.
4. Biology. A non-coding region of DNA occurring between the two coding regions, which may be transcribed but does not form part of the final transcript; esp. one occurring between two genes or cistrons. Also spacer region.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > nucleic acid > DNA > section of
operator1961
satellite1962
junk DNA1963
spacer1963
transposon1974
antisense1977
retroposon1983
retrotransposon1985
retroelement1988
microsatellite1989
1963 Science 3 May 480/3 All proposed codes have required, explicitly or implicitly, some additional unknown source of information such as ‘commas’, ‘spacers’, ‘stepping by threes’, ‘forbidden combinations’, and so forth.
1979 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76 4004/2 In the multiplicational multigene families..the spacer region is often more variable than the transcribed region.
2006 W. Sherwin & J. A. M. Graves in P. J. Armati et al. Marsupials ii. 44 It doesn't even have to be a coding region at all: any old piece of spacer, intron or pseudogene sequence can be located if a probe detects variation between different versions of the same DNA sequence in the two parent species.

Compounds

spacer gel n. Biochemistry (in electrophoresis) a section of a polyacrylamide gel that serves to concentrate the sample (typically protein) before separation; a stacking gel; (also) an additional layer of gel cast between the stacking gel and the resolving gel (used chiefly to aid the resolution of large protein molecules).
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [noun] > gel
starch gel1907
spacer gel1964
1964 Science 6 Mar. 1036/2 The sample was held down by a piece of dialysis membrane (cellophane) placed between the spacer gel and the cathode buffer reservoir.
1991 Plant Cell 3 984/1 Peptides..were resolved by Tricine- sds- page.., using a 1.5mm gel composed of a separating gel.., a spacer gel..and a stacking gel.
2007 Jrnl. Chromatogr. B. 849 196/1 In this modification,an additional spacer gel is introduced between the stacking and resolving gels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

spacern.2

Brit. /ˈspeɪsə/, U.S. /ˈspeɪsər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: space n.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < space n.1 + -er suffix1.
Science Fiction.
1. = spaceman n. 2.
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society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > astronaut or traveller in space > one who has travelled from another planet
spaceman1932
spacer1940
1940 I. Asimov in Astonishing Stories Apr. 71/2 I've read books about him. He was the greatest spacer there ever was.
1955 C. M. Kornbluth Mindworm 59 ‘I'm a spacer,’ he said... ‘Venus.’
1994 Interzone Jan. 63/3 The device may contain the location of the long-lost Godspeed base, hidden somewhere in the swarm of worldlets where the spacers mine asteroids for precious light metals.
2. A spacecraft.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun]
astronaut1880
spaceship1880
liner1905
space flyer1911
rocket ship1925
space vehicle1928
spacecraft1929
ship1930
spacer1942
1942 C. M. Kornbluth Crisis! in Sci. Fiction Q. Spring 139/1 The ultimatum..had called in all spacers except those related to navigation.
1962 New Worlds Sci. Fiction Sept. 50 The spacer broke through the low hanging layer of clouds above.
2006 Apex Sci. Fiction & Horror Digest Summer 32 The earliest scans were on the spacer Chickmanga bound for a station in Jupiter orbit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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