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Span

noun

1.

The complete duration of something.

2.

The distance or interval between two points.

3.

Two items of the same kind. Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, twain, twosome, yoke.

4.

A unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches).

5.

A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.. Synonym: bridge.

6.

The act of sitting or standing astride. Synonym: straddle.

verb

1.

To cover or extend over an area or time period. Synonyms: cross, sweep, traverse. "The parking lot spans 3 acres" , "The novel spans three centuries"

Spin

verb

(past span; past part. spun; pres. part. spinning)

1.

Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis. Synonyms: gyrate, reel, spin around, whirl.

2.

Stream in jets, of liquids.

3.

Cause to spin. Synonyms: birl, twirl, whirl.

4.

Make up a story.

5.

Form a web by making a thread.

6.

Work natural fibers into a thread.

7.

Twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation.

8.

Prolong or extend. Synonym: spin out.

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"Span" Quotes from Famous Books

... overflowing cup, And work a trifle in their little way; Just tip the solar-system downside up, What is there that they can't do, who shall say? While for one glance a thousand pine away, Which certainly is most disastrous when Our span is not too long as you will say, And what of their short three score years and ten? But this may not apply ...

— The Minstrel - A Collection of Poems • Lennox Amott

... trained to five or six good carols, without knowing why. We did not care to disappoint them if a February thaw setting in on the 24th of December should break up the spree before it began. Then I had told Howland that he must reserve for me a span of good horses, and a sleigh that I could pack sixteen small children into, tight-stowed. Howland is always good about such things, knew what the sleigh was for, having done the same in other years, and made the span four horses of his own accord, ...

— The Man Without a Country and Other Tales • Edward E. Hale

... them; and it was this difference that was the most horrible point. The fatal age in Mrs. Brett's hands was—not past, no, for here SHE was. But she might have died when she was twenty-one. Twenty-three seemed to be the utmost span. She was ...

— A. V. Laider • Max Beerbohm

... lie drowned in a heap, And Southey's last Pan has pillowed his sleep; That Felo de se who, half drunk with his Malmsey, Walked out of his depth and was lost in a calm sea, 10 Singing "Glory to God" in a spick and span stanza, The like (since Tom Sternhold was choked) never ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. - Poetry • George Gordon Byron

... all as she went—all she was to do. There was the threadbare blanket they used for a silence cloth, and the table-cloth with the red stain by Johnny's place where he had spilled cranberry jelly the night before last, when the cloth was "span clean." There were the places to set, as always, with the same old dishes and the same old knives and forks; and with the mechanical precision born of long practice she would rightly place, without half looking at them, the various napkins each in its slightly different wooden ring. The utmost variety ...

— Everybody's Lonesome - A True Fairy Story • Clara E. Laughlin

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