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| Main Entry: |
span
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distance, duration |
| Synonyms: | amount, compass, extent, interval, length, measure, period, reach, space, spell, spread, stretch, term, time |
| Antonyms: | extreme |
| Main Entry: | spin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go around, make go around |
| Synonyms: | gyrate, gyre, oscillate, pendulate, pirouette, purl, reel, revolve, rotate, spiral, swim, turn, twirl, twist, wheel, whirl |
| Antonyms: | stand, steady |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a period of time |
| Synonyms: | aeon, blue moon, century, date, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, interim, interval, life, lifetime, millennium, span |
| Notes: | epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time |
Example Sentences
- Unlike many standards-setting bodies, participating companies span a range of industries.
- It is no coincidence that the span of each brood's cycle is a prime number of years.
- The same can be said of similar partial vertebrae found from the same span of time throughout the southwest.
| Main Entry: | arch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curve, curved structure |
| Synonyms: | arc, archway, bend, bow, curvature, dome, semicircle, span, vault |
| Main Entry: | arch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | curve |
| Synonyms: | arc, bend, bow, bridge, camber, extend, form, hook, hump, hunch, round, shape, span, stretch |
| Main Entry: | bowl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | roll a ball down a lane |
| Synonyms: | fling, hurl, pitch, play duckpins, play tenpins, revolve, rotate, spin, throw, trundle, whirl |
| Main Entry: | breadth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | width |
| Synonyms: | broadness, diameter, distance across, latitude, span, spread, wideness |
| Main Entry: | bridge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | structure or something that makes connection |
| Synonyms: | arch, bond, branch, catwalk, connection, extension, gangplank, link, overpass, platform, pontoon, scaffold, span, tie, transit, trestle, viaduct, wing |
| Main Entry: | bridge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | connect, extend |
| Synonyms: | arch over, attach, bind, branch, couple, cross, cross over, go over, join, link, reach, span, subtend, traverse, unite |
| Antonyms: | detach, disconnect, disjoin, disunite, unlink |
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