spacer

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English

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Etymology

From space +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

spacer (plural spacers)

  1. (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.
    • 2014 [1993], Bruce Coville, Aliens Ate My Homework‎, page 134:
      "How do I know I can trust you?" asked BKR.
      Grakker hesitated. "Spacer's oath," he said at last.
    • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
      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.
    • 2017, A.K. Brown, Humans on the Menu (Champagne Universe Series: Book 2), page 20:
      He was thankful that he still had his suit on when the ship had a catastrophic decompression, a spacer's worst nightmare.
  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.

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Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from spacerować.

Pronunciation

Noun

spacer m inan (diminutive spacerek)

  1. stroll, walk (wandering on foot; idle and leisurely walk)
    Synonym: przechadzka

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

Derived terms

adjective
nouns
verb

Further reading

  • spacer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • spacer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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