Synonyms for span
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
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| Phonetic Transcription : spæn |
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Définition of span
Origin :- "distance between two objects," Old English span "distance between the thumb and little finger of an extended hand," probably related to Middle Dutch spannen "to join, fasten" (see span (n.2)).
- The Germanic word was borrowed into Medieval Latin as spannus, hence Italian spanna, Old French espanne, French empan. As a measure of length, roughly nine inches. Meaning "length of time" first attested 1590s; that of "space between abutments of an arch, etc." is from 1725. Meaning "maximum lateral dimension of an aircraft" is first recorded 1909. Attention span is recorded from 1922.
- noun distance, duration
- verb stretch over
- And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- I don't know I ever did see the house so spick and span before!
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- She span round and fell all of a heap upon the tiled flooring.
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- What was it to her if the Airly's did keep a span, and drive out every day?
- Extract from : « The Elm Tree Tales » by F. Irene Burge Smith
- By quiet indications the bridge would be built and span their lives with beauty.
- Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
- There were six arches here, of which the two centre ones had a span of 100 ft.
- Extract from : « Architecture » by Thomas Roger Smith
- As I came onto the old man he was waterin' a span o' horses at the well.
- Extract from : « They of the High Trails » by Hamlin Garland
- An hour or a million years would be all the same; if you could span the hour, you could span the million years.
- Extract from : « Project Mastodon » by Clifford Donald Simak
- And scarcely that span of the length of a spar had parted us from him when he sank!
- Extract from : « Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida » by Ouida
- Thirty-five a month for a span o' hosses, and hosses and man kept.
- Extract from : « The Rainy Day Railroad War » by Holman Day
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