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  • 51space —    American a grave    Funeral jargon:     As for other euphemisms... space for grave . (J. Mitford, 1963)    A space and bronze deal was what you got if you bought your plot and casket in advance …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 52-space — a suffix denoting a measure specifying the number of dimensions, as in 3 space, n space …

  • 53space — [13] Space comes via Old French espace from Latin spatium ‘distance, space, period’, a word of unknown origin. Its modern English application to the ‘expanse in which the Universe is contained’ did not emerge until the 19th century. The Latin… …

    Word origins

  • 54space — See: OUTER SPACE …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 55space — See: OUTER SPACE …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 56space — Any demarcated portion of the body, either an area of the surface, a segment of the tissues, or a cavity. SEE ALSO: area, region, zone. SYN: spatium [TA]. [L. spatium, room, s.] alveolar dead s …

    Medical dictionary

  • 57SPACE — Search Project For Aspects Of Close Encounters (Business » International Business) **** Student Programming And Activities For Campus Entertainment (Academic & Science » Universities) *** Students Planning And Conducting Engineering (Academic &… …

    Abbreviations dictionary

  • 58Space — Zwischenraumtaste; Leertaste * * * Space   [dt. »Raum«], der Leerraum zwischen zwei Zeichenketten (Leerzeichen), manchmal auch Kurzbezeichnung für die Leertaste …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 59space — See: outer space …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 60space — vb American to daydream, lose concentration or enter a euphoric state. An adolescents expres sion based on the earlier spaced out and spacy. She puts on the headphones and just starts to space …

    Contemporary slang