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Span

noun

1.

The complete duration of something.

2.

The distance or interval between two points.

3.

Two items of the same kind. Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, twain, twosome, yoke.

4.

A unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches).

5.

A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.. Synonym: bridge.

6.

The act of sitting or standing astride. Synonym: straddle.

verb

1.

To cover or extend over an area or time period. Synonyms: cross, sweep, traverse. "The parking lot spans 3 acres" , "The novel spans three centuries"

Spin

verb

(past span; past part. spun; pres. part. spinning)

1.

Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis. Synonyms: gyrate, reel, spin around, whirl.

2.

Stream in jets, of liquids.

3.

Cause to spin. Synonyms: birl, twirl, whirl.

4.

Make up a story.

5.

Form a web by making a thread.

6.

Work natural fibers into a thread.

7.

Twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation.

8.

Prolong or extend. Synonym: spin out.

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"Span" Quotes from Famous Books

... a storm is nigh; We will smite the wing up the steepest sky; Through the rushing air We will climb the stair That to heaven from the vaults doth leap; We will measure its height By the strokes of our flight, Its span by the tempest's sweep. What matter the hail or the clashing winds! We know by the tempest we do not lie Dead in the pits of eternity. Brothers, let us be strong in our minds, Lest the storm should beat us back, Or the treacherous ...

— A Hidden Life and Other Poems • George MacDonald

... gave in, "gain or loss, it will fall on you, and pretty soon. I wasn't built for a long span; my father's sins have made life bitter to me, and I thank God the end's near. But if you have 500 pounds to spare, I can't see why you drive ...

— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... caused her such extraordinary pains that she was late in reaching the table. She found that Bea had usurped her place at the head, but forgot to object in the confusion of being greeted with: "Heigho, Berta, what's happened?" "You're spick and span enough for a party." "Are you going ...

— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz

... ambitions of the Federal Governments of the UEESR and the UPREA, respectively, and that the different peoples of what you unblushingly call your "autonomous" republics have no ambitions except, on a rapidly diminishing order of probability, to live out their natural span ...

— Operation R.S.V.P. • Henry Beam Piper

... Castel Vecchio ("old castle") and adjacent Ponte del Castello ("castle bridge"), for they seem but parts of one great fortification, turreted and battlemented, built by Can Grande II. in 1355. The bridge is an extraordinary structure, the arches being extremely unequal in size: the span of the largest is about a hundred and sixty feet. The mass, the irregularity, the strength of these piles, the dark river hurrying below, give the spot a grimness not often found on the sunny side of the Alps. The castle has been altered by many successive hands of course, for ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various

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