spacer

CEFRB2

/ˈspeɪsɚ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A device or part that keeps things separated by a set distance.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A bushing.

Examples

  • A spacer is a thing used to create or maintain a space between items.

  • The carpenter inserted a plastic spacer between the tiles.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A person who works or lives in space.

  2. An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.

  3. A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.

More examples

In context

  • The worker used a plastic spacer to keep the tiles apart.

  • The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers.

  • 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.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

To keep the components apart, the technician inserted a plastic blank between them.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From space + -er.