spacer

English

Etymology

From space +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspeɪsə(ɹ)/

• Audio (AU):

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  Rhymes: -eɪsə(r)

Noun

spacer (plural spacers)

1. (sometimes science fiction) A person who works or lives in space.
   • 1954, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel:

     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.

2. An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
3. A bushing.
4. (slang) A forgetful person; one who spaces out.
5. (medicine) A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
6. (historical) An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.

Translations

an object

• French: entretoise (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Tagalog: pamatlang

Anagrams

• Casper, Pacers, Scaper, capers, crapes, e-scrap, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, scaper, scrape, secpar

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Polish

Etymology

From German spazieren, Spazier(gang).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspa.t͡sɛr/

Noun

spacer m inan (diminutive spacerek)

1. stroll, walk

Declension

Declension of spacer

	singular	plural
nominative	spacer	spacery
genitive	spaceru	spacerów
dative	spacerowi	spacerom
accusative	spacer	spacery
instrumental	spacerem	spacerami
locative	spacerze	spacerach
vocative	spacerze	spacery

Synonyms

• przechadzka

Derived terms

• spacerniak
• spacerowicz
• spacerować
• spacerowy

Further reading

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