space

espace, place

Zone vide ou place disponible pour des personnes ou des objets.

En anglais simple : An empty area, or room available for people or things.

• There is no space here.
• Leave some space between the chairs.
• Do we have enough space for another bed?

Comment l'utiliser : space for someone/something (There is space for two more people.); space to do something (We need space to store our bikes.)

Synonymes : room, area

Expressions courantes : enough space, storage space, space for something, make space

espace

Région au-delà de l’atmosphère terrestre, où se trouvent les étoiles et les planètes.

En anglais simple : The area beyond Earth's air, where stars and planets are.

• The rocket went into space.
• Astronauts live and work in space.
• Would you like to travel through space?

Synonymes : outer space

Expressions courantes : outer space, space travel, in space, space station

espace

Ensemble d’objets mathématiques considérés comme des points, avec des règles définissant leurs relations.

En anglais simple : A set of mathematical objects treated as points, with rules describing how they relate.

• These vectors form a space.
• The function maps points into a different space.
• We studied the properties of a three-dimensional vector space.

Expressions courantes : vector space, metric space, hilbert space

espacer

Disposer des choses en laissant un intervalle entre elles.

En anglais simple : To arrange things with gaps between them.

• Space the chairs evenly.
• We spaced the trees two meters apart.
• Can you space these pictures farther apart?

Comment l'utiliser : space things + distance + apart (Space the plants thirty centimeters apart.); space things out (Space the chairs out evenly.)

Synonymes : separate, spread out

Expressions courantes : space something apart, space something evenly, space out something

être dans la lune, décrocher

Ne plus remarquer ce qui se passe parce que l’esprit part ailleurs.

En anglais simple : To stop noticing what is happening because your mind wanders.

• I space out when I am tired.
• He spaced out during the lecture.
• Sorry, I spaced out and missed your question.

Comment l'utiliser : space out (I sometimes space out during long meetings.)

Synonymes : daydream, zone out

Contraires : concentrate

Expressions courantes : space out, space out completely

espacer

Ajouter ou régler les espaces entre les lettres, les mots ou les lignes d’un texte.

En anglais simple : To add or adjust gaps between letters, words, or lines of writing.

• Space the lines evenly.
• The printer spaced the letters too widely.
• This paragraph is poorly spaced and hard to read.

Expressions courantes : space the lines, space words evenly, space the text