Significat (Anglès)
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- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- A small space or a brief portion of time.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
- The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
Sinònims
hand span
erst
overall length
run for
wing-span
wing-spread
lay across
hold still for
over-all length
stretch across
distance between two points
pyron
variation range
moment of span
unit of length
strided distance
bridging over
span of horses
bridge over
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/spæn/
Etimologia (Anglès)
In summary
From Middle English spanne, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spannō (“span, handbreadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”). Cognate with Dutch span, spanne, German Spanne. The sense “pair of horses” is probably from Old English ġespan, ġespann (“a joining; a fastening together; clasp; yoke”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. Cognate with Dutch gespan, German Gespann.
spin
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- To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
- To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To move sideways when bouncing.
- To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- To move swiftly.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- (informal) To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- (slang) To search rapidly.
- To draw out tediously; prolong.
- To fish with a swivel or spoonbait.
- (slang) To reject at an examination; to fail (a student).
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