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spaced, ppl. a.|speɪst|
[f. space n.1 or v.]
1. Of printed or typed matter: having the words or lines separated by (a specified mode of) spacing. Also double-, single-spaced, qq. v. under the first element.
1808C. Stower Printer's Gram. vi. 160 Not in a greater degree than a middling and thin space to a thick spaced line. 1892A. Oldfield Man. Typog. ii. 20 Thin spaces..are very useful in a close-spaced line.
2. a. Set at intervals or distances; fig. measured, regulated.
1873F. Jenkin Electr. & Magn. xxii. §12 Uniformly spaced central holes serve to move the paper on at a constant speed. 1898Westm. Gaz. 1 Apr. 2/1 Between strangers.., a spaced, even a distant, courtesy is essential to develop lasting friendship. 1920Wireless World 12 June 200 (heading) Spaced loop aerial. 1949G. A. Briggs Sound Reproduction iii. 35 Sound is picked up by 3 spaced microphones, recorded on separate channels, and played back through 3 spaced speakers. 1959K. Henney Radio Engin. Handbk. (ed. 5) xxvi. 27 Analysis..indicates that, regardless of the value of the incident and polarization angles, the spaced-loop output voltage goes through a null when the directions of propagation are contained in the planes of the loop antennas. 1968Times 29 Nov. (Sound of Leisure Suppl.) p. vi/5 The spaced microphone technique (using microphones a few inches or several feet apart, according to taste) relies both on volume and time of arrival differences. 1978Geophysical Research Lett. V. 917/1 Observations of the troposphere with a VHF radar using a large antenna for transmission and small spaced antennas for reception.
b. With out.
1937‘M. Innes’ Hamlet, Revenge iii. v. 295 The number of spaced-out acts committed by the criminal. 1952C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Aeneid ix. 200 Where the ring of defenders was thinnest and daylight showed Between their spaced-out bodies. 1976‘J. Ross’ I know what it's like to Die xxxi. 203 The spaced-out drops of water from the tap.
c. Of children: born or conceived at intervals (of a kind denoted by qualifying advb.).
1939[see expect v. 4 e (b)]. 1965M. Stewart Airs above Ground i. 10 She acquired a wealthy London banker..the kind of man..safely ensconced in the Jaguar belt with three carefully spaced children away at carefully chosen schools. 1976Times 25 Feb. 16/5 The advantages of a smaller or adequately spaced family.
3. Of braid, etc.: Woven or worked in spaces or divisions.
1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlew. 454/1 Spaced Braid... The spaces or divisions into which the two patterns are severally woven are alternately thick, or close and narrow, and comparatively wide and open. Ibid., Spaced Braid Work, a variety of Modern Point Lace, but made without fancy stitches and with braids outlined with cord.
4. In a state of drug-induced euphoria, ‘high’; removed from actuality or disoriented, by narcotic stimulus. Also transf. Freq. with out. slang (orig. U.S.).
1968–70Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) III–IV. 116 Spaced out, adj., mentally deficient; strange; absent-minded. 1969Negro Digest Sept. 10 Spaced poems say that our ancestors are in the air and will communicate with us. 1969Time 26 Sept. 41 The culture has its own in-group argot:..‘straights’ (everyone else), ‘heat’ (the police)..and being ‘spaced out’ (in a drug daze). 1971J. Mandelkau Buttons v. 68, I remember being really spaced out and someone handing me a ladybird—telling me how nice they tasted. 1974A. Lurie War between Tates vi. 131 ‘You look exhausted.’ ‘I am sorta spaced out.’ 1975New Yorker 5 May 6/1 Vibraharpist Mike Mainieri and pianist Warren Bernhardt play some heavily lyrical and spaced-out duets. 1977C. McFadden Serial (1978) xx. 47/1 She just sort of stood there, feeling totally spaced, because the whole number was nothing short of unreal. |