SPAN | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of span in English spannoun uk /spæn/ us /spæn/

span noun (TIME)

Add to word list Add to word list [ C usually singular ] the period of time that something exists or happens: attention/concentration span He has a short attention/concentration span.life span an average lifespan of 70 yearsover a span of Over a span of just three years, the new government has transformed the country's economic prospects. See also lifespan time span Periods of time - general words

• age
• all day
• at/in one sitting idiom
• atomic age
• clock
• day
• in the making idiom
• indefinite period
• information age
• intervening period
• intervening years
• ping
• shortly
• sitting
• slot
• spree
• standing
• stint
• stretch
• subperiod

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span noun (LENGTH)

[ C ] the length of something from one end to the other: huge wings with a span of over a metre See also wingspan [ C ] the area of a bridge, etc. between two supports: The bridge crosses the river in a single span. Measurements in general

• along the length of something
• bathymetric
• bathymetrically
• bathymetry
• be running at something idiom
• calibre
• chunky
• cubic
• depth
• factor
• measurable
• metrically
• micro
• mismeasurement
• non-dimensional
• non-measurable
• pico-
• ply
• scale
• setting

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Bridges spanverb uk /spæn/ us /spæn/

span verb (SPIN)

past simple of spin Revolving, rotating and spinning

• around
• around and around idiom
• backspin
• birl
• centrifugal
• pivot
• reel
• revolving
• rotary
• rotate
• rotation
• rotational
• spiral
• swim
• swivel
• swizzle
• twirl
• twirling
• twirly
• windmill

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span verb (TIME)

[ T ] -nn- to exist or continue for a particular length of time: Tennis has a history spanning several centuries. Her acting career spanned almost six decades. Continue & last

• all day
• bash
• bash on phrasal verb
• bubble away
• carry (something) on phrasal verb
• cease
• gold-plated
• holdover
• hour
• immortality
• immortally
• in the making idiom
• momentum
• progress
• prolong
• prolongation
• prosecute
• prosecution
• soldier
• stretch

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span verb (BRIDGE)

[ T ] -nn- If a bridge spans a river, it goes from one side to the other: An old bridge spans the river just outside the town. Crossing and moving through

• bash through (something) phrasal verb
• break
• break through something phrasal verb
• criss-cross
• cross
• cross from something into something
• cross over phrasal verb
• cut
• ford
• non-intersecting
• penetrable
• penetration
• penetrative
• percolate
• rip
• rip through something phrasal verb
• scissor
• straddle
• transit
• uncrossed

See more results » spanadjective uk /spæn/ us /spæn/  spick and span →  spick and span informal : Her apartment is usually so spick and span. Three hours later, everything was spick and span. My dad kept the house spick and span. In the kitchen, everything is spick and span. Her bedroom is spick and span, just how she likes it. It's a tiny red-brick house and she keeps it spick and span. Clean & tidy

• (as) clean as a (new) pin idiom
• antiseptically
• apple pie
• asepsis
• aseptic
• clipped
• neatly
• neatness
• non-clogging
• non-polluting
• ordered
• spotlessly
• sprucely
• squeaky-clean
• stainless
• super-clean
• unwrinkled
• virginal
• virginally
• well kept

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span | American Dictionary

spannoun [ C ] us /spæn/ Add to word list Add to word list the length of something: A lifetime is a span of about seventy years. The Rangers scored three goals in the span of five minutes. A span is also the distance between two points, esp. between the structures that hold up a bridge: In 1855, an 850-foot span was built to carry trains across the gorge.

span

verb [ T ] us /spæn/ -nn- An old bridge spans the river just outside the town. (Definition of span from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of span?

Translations of span

in Chinese (Traditional) 時間, 一段時間, 長度… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 时间, 一段时间, 长度… See more in Spanish intervalo, duración, pasado simple de "spin"… See more in Portuguese período, duração, continuar… See more in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Korean in Ukrainian in Italian （存続する）期間, 持続時間, （ある期間に）及ぶ… See more süre, zaman, zaman aralığı… See more travée, portée, durée… See more lapse, durada, durar… See more overspanning, duur, overspannen… See more rozpětí, doba, překlenout… See more spænd, -spænd, tidsrum… See more rentang, merentangi… See more ช่วงห่าง, ระยะเวลา, ทอดข้าม… See more nhịp cầu, khoảng thời gian, kéo dài qua… See more okres, przedział, czas… See more [bro]spann, tidrymd, levnadslopp… See more bidang‘, jangka hayat, merentangi… See more der Brückenbogen, die Spanne, überspannen… See more spennvidde, bruspenn, tidsrom… See more 기간, 수명… See more прогін (моста), відстань між опорами, відрізок… See more periodo, intervallo, arco… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of span

• spin
• attention span
• time span
• digit span
• memory span
• span of control
• spick-and-span

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• spin off something phrasal verb
• spin out something phrasal verb

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• spick and span phrase
• have the attention span of a gnat idiom

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  • Noun 
    • span (TIME)
    • span (LENGTH)
  • Verb 
    • span (SPIN)
    • span (TIME)
    • span (BRIDGE)
  • Adjective 
    • spick and span
• American   
  • Noun 
    • span
  • Verb 
    • span

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