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span

/span/US // spæn //UK // (spæn) //

跨度,跨越,跨越式,跨度大

Related Words

term术语,任期,条款,期spell咒语,拼写,咒骂,拼字space空间,空间的,太空,场地stretch伸展,延伸,绵延,伸长interval间隔,间隙,间歇期,间隔时间period时间length长度,长,篇幅,长度traverse穿过,穿越,横穿,横越cover覆盖,掩护,报道,涵盖cross十字架,十字,十字路口,十字形extend延伸,延长,扩展,延续connect连接,衔接,连通,连接起来time时间,时代,时期,时reach达到,达成,达到了,抵达amount数量,数额,金额,量spread扩散,传播,蔓延,铺开extent程度,范围,规模,幅度compass指南针,罗盘,指北针,罗经measure措施,衡量,计量,衡量标准bridge桥梁,桥,大桥,桥牌

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the distance between the tip of the thumb and the tip of the little finger when the hand is fully extended.
    • : a unit of length corresponding to this distance, commonly taken as 9 inches.
    • : a distance, amount, piece, etc., of this length or of some small extent: a span of lace.
    • : Civil Engineering, Architecture. the distance between two supports of a structure.the structure so supported.the distance or space between two supports of a bridge.
    • : the full extent, stretch, or reach of anything: a long span of memory.
    • : Aeronautics. the distance between the wing tips of an airplane.
    • : a limited space of time, as the term or period of living: Our span on earth is short.
    • : Mathematics. the smallest subspace of a vector space that contains a given element or set of elements.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    spanned, span·ning.

    • : to measure by the hand with the thumb and little finger extended.
    • : to encircle with the hand or hands, as the waist.
    • : to extend over or across.
    • : to provide with something that extends over: to span a river with a bridge.
    • : to extend or reach over: a memory that spans 90 years.
    • : Mathematics. to function as a span.
    • : Archery. to bend in preparation for shooting.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundistance, duration
Forms: spanned, spanning, spans
Synonyms
interval间隔,间隙,间歇期,间隔时间length长度,长,篇幅,长度period时间space空间,空间的,太空,场地spell咒语,拼写,咒骂,拼字stretch伸展,延伸,绵延,伸长term术语,任期,条款,期amount数量,数额,金额,量compass指南针,罗盘,指北针,罗经extent程度,范围,规模,幅度measure措施,衡量,计量,衡量标准reach达到,达成,达到了,抵达spread扩散,传播,蔓延,铺开time时间,时代,时期,时
verbstretch over
Forms: spanned, spanning, spans
Synonyms
connect连接,衔接,连通,连接起来cover覆盖,掩护,报道,涵盖cross十字架,十字,十字路口,十字形extend延伸,延长,扩展,延续traverse穿过,穿越,横穿,横越arch拱门,拱形,拱桥,拱形的bridge桥梁,桥,大桥,桥牌ford福特,福迪,福德,福特汽车link链接,联系,连接,连线range范围,系列,幅度,幅度大小reach达到,达成,达到了,抵达vault拱顶,穹顶,拱门,金库go across穿越,跨越,穿过,越过pass over穿过,穿越,越过,略过

Examples

  • The active user metrics can further be categorized into four metrics as per audience engagement in different time spans.

  • Sorkin’s economic prescriptions are derived from a career that’s now spanned a quarter century.

  • Romaine is slightly heartier, but it still has a limited life span in a Tupperware.

  • Somehow a galaxy that spans tens of thousands of light years is intimately related to what is, in effect, a microscopic dot at its center.

  • A star is born over a long span of time from a large, cold, dark cloud of gas and dust.

  • The human attention span is evolving in such a way that they can skip around.

  • RELATED: Wing Span: The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (PHOTOS) Not everyone agreed with her assessment.

  • Five times during that span, the majority of species on the planet vanished in a short interval of time.

  • In battle, it means the ability to shift from suicide bombers to tank columns and maneuver warfare in the span of a day.

  • Typically, new equipment is developed in the span of two or three years.

  • Messrs. Spick and Span's representative was wounded in his tenderest point, but his firm carried out the order to the letter.

  • Part of that idea was sham bric-à-brac, the rest was carte blanche to Messrs. Spick and Span.

  • Originally it had one great roof of a single span, second only to that of St. Pancras Station.

  • That was "back in the Sixties," when his lapses were as far apart as they were unrivalled in consumption, span, and pyrotechny.

  • He seems to think he is mooting to me a spick and span new idea—that he has invented something.

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