


#* 1601, ( William Shakespeare), ( Hamlet), First Folio 1623.#Physical extent across two or three dimensions area, volume (sometimes for or to do something).Which means - and this is my own, not totally scientific, calculation - that the space ' between cars on the roads in 1991 was roughly 39 car lengths, because today there is no ' space at all. #*:Which means that for every car there was 10 years ago, there are now 40.#* 2001, Sam Wollaston, ( The Guardian), 3 November:.#*:But neere him, thy Angell / Becomes a feare: as being o're-powr'd, therefore / Make space enough betweene you.#* c.1607, ( William Shakespeare), ( Antony and Cleopatra) :.( lb) Unlimited or generalized physical extent.#*:Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.#* 1923, ( PG Wodehouse), ( The Inimitable Jeeves).#An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period) a.#*:The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so.#* 2007, Andy Bull, ( The Guardian), 20 October:.#*:I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.#* 1893, ( Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman), Giles Corey.#A specific (specified) period of time.This will afford him space to reach the camp. #*:In two days hence / The judge of life and death ascends his seat.#* 1616, ( William Shakespeare), ( w, All's Well that Ends Well).
