span

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬. The sense “pair of horses” is probably from 🇨🇬,, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
 * 2) Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
 * 3)  A small space or a brief portion of time.
 * 4) A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
 * 5)  The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
 * 6)  The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
 * 7)  A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
 * 8)  A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
 * 9)  The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
 * 10)  The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
 * 11) wingspan of a plane or bird
 * 1)  The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
 * 2)  A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
 * 3)  A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
 * 4)  The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
 * 5)  The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
 * 6) wingspan of a plane or bird
 * 1) wingspan of a plane or bird
 * 1) wingspan of a plane or bird

Translations

 * Arabic: شِبْر
 * Moroccan Arabic: شبر
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: ҡарыш
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: píď
 * Danish:
 * Faroese: sponn
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σπιθαμή
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: réise
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: сүйем
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بست
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Maori: whanga
 * Ottoman Turkish: قارش
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Southern Altai: карыш, сӧӧм
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: shibiri
 * Tagalog: damak, sandamak
 * Telugu:
 * Tocharian B: raso
 * Turkish:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎜𐎉
 * Ukrainian: п'ядь
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: sban


 * Bulgarian: късо разстояние, кратко време
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:, , , ,  ,
 * Irish: seal
 * Italian:, lasso di tempo
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: пері́од


 * Azerbaijani: aşırım
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Maori: tāwhana
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: spennvidde
 * Nynorsk: spennvidd, spennvidde
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: перекриття́


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Maori: tāwhana
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: перекриття́


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese: espaço gerado
 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To extend through the distance between or across.
 * The suspension bridge spanned the canyon.
 * 1)  To extend through (a time period).
 * The parking lot spans three acres.
 * The novel spans three centuries.
 * 1)  To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
 * to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder
 * 1)  To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
 * 2)  To be matched, as horses.
 * 3)  To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
 * 1)  To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
 * 2)  To be matched, as horses.
 * 3)  To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian: apim̃ti
 * Maori: tūhāngai, tīpae
 * Slovak: preklenúť
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: spänna över, sträcka sig över
 * Ukrainian: охо́плювати, охопи́ти


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:, mieć zasięg,
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: spänna över, sträcka sig över
 * Ukrainian: охо́плювати, охопи́ти


 * Ottoman Turkish: قارشلامق
 * Turkish:


 * German:
 * Swedish: spänna upp

Etymology 3
From, from , from , first and third person singular preterit indicative of.

Etymology 1
From older.

Noun

 * A, a team pair or larger team of draught animals.
 * 1) A cart or instrument with a team of draught animals.
 * 2) A romantic pair, couple.

Etymology 2
From

Noun

 * 1)  span
 * 2)  span

Noun

 * 1) hurry, haste
 * 2)  induction

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) tense

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  an act of spying (something)
 * 2)  stakeout
 * 1)  stakeout

Etymology
From or.

Noun

 * 1) span, team pair of draught animals in a team
 * 2) pair, couple