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US
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[ UK /spˈæn/ ]
[ UK /spˈæn/ ]
NOUN
- the distance or interval between two points
- two items of the same kind
- the act of sitting or standing astride
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the complete duration of something
the job was finished in the span of an hour - a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
- a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
VERB
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to cover or extend over an area or time period
The novel spans three centuries
Rivers traverse the valley floor
The parking lot spans 3 acres
How To Use span In A Sentence
- a class in conversational Spanish.
- It is a rich and absorbing story about the 1918 epidemic of Spanish influenza. Times, Sunday Times
- (12 May 2006) - Three years in the business might seem like a too-brief span for a retrospective, but since 2003, Washington D. C.-based quartet the Fort Knox Five founded their own record label (called Fort Knox Recordings), remixed the likes of Tito Puente, Louis Armstrong, And Tower of Power, and collaborated with hip hop's elder statesman Africa Bambaataa-not to mention all the bodies they've got moving on the ... Cool Hunting
- Europeans have also learnt to miscall the Egyptians “Arabs”: the difference is as great as between an Englishman and a Spaniard. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Spanish-American War of 1898 Edison suggested to the Navy Department the adoption of a compound of calcium carbide and calcium phosphite, which when placed in a shell and fired from a gun would explode as soon as it struck water and ignite, producing a blaze that would continue several minutes and make the ships of the enemy visible for four or five miles at sea. Edison, His Life and Inventions
- Mediterranean to look out for a French and Spanish squadron, which had been on the coast of Portugal, but returned to Ferrol --- I received all your letters by the Turkish corvette, which is arrived at Messina. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
- Peyton Manning will then 'spank' Drew Brees: Now if they just made half-and-half jerseys... Sad Week
- A 'the time we lay there it lowped and flang and capered and span like a teetotum, and whiles we could hear it skelloch as it span. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
- Witnesses said that two Hispanic men were seen toting the garments away.
- Contador, who won the 2007 Tour and the 2008 Spanish Vuelta and Giro d'Italia, is also aiming to win in Paris this year. Armstrong, Contador team up in Castilla Leon race