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.
| 1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. vi. 160 Not in a greater degree than a middling and thin space to a thick spaced line. 1892 A. 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.
| 1873 F. Jenkin Electr. & Magn. xxii. §12 Uniformly spaced central holes serve to move the paper on at a constant speed. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 Apr. 2/1 Between strangers.., a spaced, even a distant, courtesy is essential to develop lasting friendship. 1920 Wireless World 12 June 200 (heading) Spaced loop aerial. 1949 G. 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. 1959 K. 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. 1968 Times 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. 1978 Geophysical 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. 1952 C. 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)]. 1965 M. 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. 1976 Times 25 Feb. 16/5 The advantages of a smaller or adequately spaced family. |
3. Of braid, etc.: Woven or worked in spaces or divisions.
| 1882 Caulfeild & 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.).
| 1968–70 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) III–IV. 116 Spaced out, adj., mentally deficient; strange; absent-minded. 1969 Negro Digest Sept. 10 Spaced poems say that our ancestors are in the air and will communicate with us. 1969 Time 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). 1971 J. Mandelkau Buttons v. 68, I remember being really spaced out and someone handing me a ladybird—telling me how nice they tasted. 1974 A. Lurie War between Tates vi. 131 ‘You look exhausted.’ ‘I am sorta spaced out.’ 1975 New Yorker 5 May 6/1 Vibraharpist Mike Mainieri and pianist Warren Bernhardt play some heavily lyrical and spaced-out duets. 1977 C. McFadden Serial (1978) xx. 47/1 She just sort of stood there, feeling totally spaced, because the whole number was nothing short of unreal. |