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# space

«space» in Mova's school dictionary: **The area beyond the Earth's air where the planets and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (space, spaces); verb (space, spaces, spaced, spacing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The area beyond the Earth's air where the planets and stars are: "outer space". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#m1)

2) An empty area: "a parking space", "space to play". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#m2)

3) Room, amount of area available: "There's no space." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#m3)

4) The gap between words or things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#m4)

5) A period of time: "in the space of an hour". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#m5)

6) As a verb, to put things with gaps between them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In science, space has no air, so there is no sound and astronauts need spacesuits; the Earth, Moon, Sun and planets are in space. In maths, shapes take up space (area, volume). In writing, leave spaces between words. Phrases: outer space, space station, spaceship, personal space, take up space, make space.

### examples

- Astronauts travel into space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x1)
- There is no air in space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x2)
- Leave a space between words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x3)
- Is there space for one more? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x4)
- Respect people's personal space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x5)
- Space the plants ten centimetres apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x6)
- The International Space Station goes around the Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x7)
- Find a space and sit down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x8)
- He longed to soar through space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x9)

### note

Space (outer space) has no air — not cold air, no air at all. Volume tells how much space a 3D shape takes; area tells how much flat space. "Personal space" is the space around your body.

### In the corpora

- [Living close to other people means sharing streets, walls, parking spaces and rules.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/0/)
- [«That Mr Hollis has parked in Number 9's space AGAIN.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/9/)
- [Third time this week!» What she saw is one car in one space on Tuesday.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/10/)
- [The confirmed part of a street story is what someone actually saw, like a car parked in a space on Tuesday.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/15/)
- [Exaggeration that everyone knows is a joke, like lights «seen from space», is harmless fun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «space» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.