Spacer Meaning
/ˈspeɪsɚ/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person who works or lives in space.
nounAn object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
Sentence Examples
The worker used a plastic spacer to keep the tiles apart.
A spacer is a thing used to create or maintain a space between items.
The carpenter inserted a plastic spacer between the tiles.
CEFR Practice Quiz
To keep the components apart, the technician inserted a plastic ____ between them.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The carpenter used a small plastic ____ to ensure a consistent gap between all the wooden floorboards.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Latin spatiumbor. Old French espace Anglo-Norman spacebor. Middle English space English space English -er English spacer From space + -er.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers."
— 1959 December 26, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866:
"It was the futile throwing back in the face of the Spacers their most keenly felt insult: their insistence on considering the natives of Earth as disgustingly diseased."
— 1954, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel:
""How do I know I can trust you?" asked BKR.
Grakker hesitated. "Spacer's oath," he said at last."
— 2014 [1993], Bruce Coville, Aliens Ate My Homework, page 134:
"Shepard: What are you running for?
Charles Saracino: I'm seeking one of the five spacer seats in Parliament. They have certain baroque conditions for a citizen to be able to vote for them.
Charles Saracino: You have to spend more than six months a year in space. But you can't have stayed in any one settled system for more than a month."
— 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
"He was thankful that he still had his suit on when the ship had a catastrophic decompression, a spacer's worst nightmare."
— 2017, A.K. Brown, Humans on the Menu (Champagne Universe Series: Book 2), page 20:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To keep the components apart, the technician inserted a plastic ____ between them.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The carpenter used a small plastic ____ to ensure a consistent gap between all the wooden floorboards.