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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | isolate, segregate |
| Synonyms: | assign, break up, classify, close off, comb, compartment, compartmentalize, cut off, discriminate, distribute, draw apart, group, insulate, interval, intervene, island, order, put on one side, rope off, seclude, sequester, sift, single out, sort, space, split up, stand between, winnow |
| Antonyms: | desegregate, join, unite |
| Main Entry: | span |
| 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: | spell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interval, period |
| Synonyms: | bit, bout, course, go, hitch, interlude, intermission, patch, relay, season, shift, space, stint, streak, stretch, term, time, tour, tour of duty, trick, turn, while |
| Main Entry: | square |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | municipal park |
| Synonyms: | area, center, circle, common, green, plaza, space, village green |
| Main Entry: | stretch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expanse |
| Synonyms: | amplitude, area, branch, breadth, bridge, compass, dimension, distance, expansion, extension, extent, gamut, length, orbit, proliferation, purview, radius, range, reach, region, scope, space, span, spread, sweep, tract, wing |
| Main Entry: | stretch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of time |
| Synonyms: | bit, continuance, duration, extent, length, run, space, span, spell, stint, term, time, while |
| Main Entry: | term |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time period |
| Synonyms: | course, cycle, duration, go*, hitch*, interval, phase, quarter, season, semester, session, space, span, spell, standing, stretch, time, tour, turn, while |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporal length of event or entity's existence, period |
| Synonyms: | age, allotment, bit, bout, chronology, clock, continuance, date, day, duration, epoch, era, eternity, extent, future, generation, go*, hour, infinity, instance, instant, interval, juncture, lastingness, life, life span, lifetime, many a moon, moment, month, occasion, pace, past, point, present, season, second, shift, space, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tempo, term, tide, tour, turn, week, while, year |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vacancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, blankness, desertedness, emptiness, gap, job, lack, opportunity, position, post, room, situation, space, vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, void, voidness |
| Antonyms: | fill, overflow |
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