span的意思|span的解释-里氏词典

span [spæn]

n. 指距, 全长, 跨距, 一段时间, 小范围

vt. 以手指测量, 跨越, 架设, 持续

[化] 跨度; 跨距

[医] 斯潘, 司盘(山梨醇脂肪酸酯,乳化剂和去污剂); 跨距(约九英寸)

[经] 幅度

span
spanned, spanning

[ noun ]

the complete duration of something

<noun.time>

the job was finished in the span of an hour

the distance or interval between two points

<noun.attribute>

two items of the same kind

<noun.quantity>

a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)

<noun.quantity>

a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

<noun.artifact>

the act of sitting or standing astride

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

to cover or extend over an area or time period

<verb.stative>

cross

sweep

traverse

Rivers traverse the valley floor
The parking lot spans 3 acres
The novel spans three centuries

Span \Span\, v. i.
To be matched, as horses. [U. S.]

Span \Span\, archaic
imp. & p. p. of {Spin}.

Span \Span\, n. [AS. spann; akin to D. span, OHG. spanna, G.
spanne, Icel. sp["o]nn. [root]170. See {Span}, v. t. ]
1. The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger
when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.

2. Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.

Yet not to earth's contracted span
Thy goodness let me bound. --Pope.

Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy.
--Farquhar.

3. The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or
of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like,
between its supports.

4. (Naut.) 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.

5. [Cf. D. span, Sw. spann, Dan. sp[ae]nd, G. gespann. See
{Span}, v. t. ] A pair of horses or other animals driven
together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in
color, form, and action.

{Span blocks} (Naut.), blocks at the topmast and
topgallant-mast heads, for the studding-sail halyards.

{Span counter}, an old English child's game, in which one
throws a counter on the ground, and another tries to hit
it with his counter, or to get his counter so near it that
he can span the space between them, and touch both the
counters. --Halliwell. ``Henry V., in whose time boys went
to span counter for French crowns.'' --Shak.

{Span iron} (Naut.), a special kind of harpoon, usually
secured just below the gunwale of a whaleboat.

{Span roof}, a common roof, having two slopes and one ridge,
with eaves on both sides. --Gwilt.

{Span shackle} (Naut.), a large bolt driven through the
forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to
receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit. --Ham.
Nav. Encyc.

Span \Span\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spanned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Spanning}.] [AS. pannan; akin to D. & G. spannen, OHG.
spannan, Sw. sp["a]nna, Dan. sp[ae]nde, Icel. spenna, and
perh. to Gr. ? to draw, to drag, L. spatium space. [root]170.
Cf. {Spin}, v. t., {Space}, {Spasm}.]
1. To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers
extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as,
to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder.

My right hand hath spanned the heavens. --Isa.
xiviii. 13.

2. To reach from one side of to the order; to stretch over as
an arch.

The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry.
--prescott.

3. To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

Spin \Spin\ (sp[i^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spun}(Archaic imp.
{Span}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Spinning}.] [AS. spinnan; akin to
D. & G. spinnen, Icel. & Sw. spinna, Dan. spinde, Goth.
spinnan, and probably to E. span. [root]170. Cf. {Span}, v.
t., {Spider}.]
1. To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or
machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin
goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a
fibrous material.

All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence
did but fill Ithaca full of moths. --Shak.

2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by
degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to
spin out large volumes on a subject.

Do you mean that story is tediously spun out?
--Sheridan.

3. To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day
in idleness.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole
lives. --L'Estrange.

4. To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to
spin a top.

5. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads
produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid,
which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said
of the spider, the silkworm, etc.

6. (Mech.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow
form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it
with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal
revolves, as in a lathe.

{To spin a yarn} (Naut.), to tell a story, esp. a long or
fabulous tale.

{To spin hay} (Mil.), to twist it into ropes for convenient
carriage on an expedition.

{To spin street yarn}, to gad about gossiping. [Collog.]

Mohammad Nabi Amani told reporters the bridge near Sarobi, about midway between the capital and Jalalabad, was destroyed Tuesday by explosives planted on the span. He said the bridge was one of about 100 on the paved highway.
The climax is built with infinite control, over a broader, steadier span, but there seems no loss of coruscating vitality in the fingerwork. Precious pianist, precious experience.
The drawbridge and the 590-foot vessel collided near the Illinois International Port District Friday night, but officials still weren't sure if the bridge was lowered onto the ship or if the freighter struck the span.
It is probable the chimps will live their normal life span of about 40 years or more, pushing their care bill to $5,000 each annually, they said.
Prosecutors have projected the trial will last two months because the remaining defendants span a 15-year time frame discussed in the indictment.
Chinn turned a profit of nearly $40,000 for Meese on a $50,000 investment in just 23 stock trades over a 19-month span.
They are increasingly expensive, costing $50 billion or more just for commodity supports over a five-year span.
The company said in its study that high doses of AZT were given to 360 female rats and mice for about 22 months, almost their entire normal life span. The test rodents were divided into three groups and each given different doses of the drug.
The engineers who designed a temporary span on the Mianus River bridge on Interstate 95 are suddenly in demand, as are hundreds of structural engineers around the country who could reap a windfall from the San Francisco earthquake.
The bridge was damaged Sunday when the adjacent Lake Washington bridge collapsed after a driving rainstorm and crashed into the I-90 span's support cables.
"Some clearly have a shortened life span. They get curvature of the spine, or suffer compressed lungs making the heart and lungs work harder.
State Department of Transportation officials had hoped to open the bridge by Friday, exactly one month after a 50-foot section of the span's upper roadway dropped onto the lower during the Oct. 17 quake, claiming one life.
In that span, pretax earnings of the 25 largest public companies rose by a total of $17.32 billion.
The value of the cash-settled contracts will be based on the difference between insurance premiums collected and claims paid on a group of insurance policies over a fixed time span.
The wingspan, however, is about 172 feet, almost the span of a B-52 bomber.
The smaller observer groups span the political spectrum.
From the convening of the 1st Congress in 1789 until 1816, a 27-year span, members of Congress were paid at the rate of $6 a day _ with attempts made from time to time to dock the pay of absentees.
The lengthy life span of commercial vehicles is also hampering demand growth. The 4 per cent decline in corporate capital expenditure for the present fiscal year is hurting truck sales.
Reports of illness from shigella bacteria, which causes acute diarrhea, nearly doubled in a two-year span, federal health officials reported Thursday.
Its vignettes span four centuries in a small community in deepest Wessex, from the Civil War to the bright, brittle world of 1988.
The most outstanding, Mr Douglas Hurd, is nearing the end of his span as foreign secretary.
"Without this treatment, many people who are poor and sick now run the risk of a considerably shortened life span," Dr. Joseph Wilber, medical consultant for the state Department of Human Resources, said Monday.
Roads unused for three decades have fresh tire tracks from explorers while a 1941 bridge, under water until this summer, is marked by muddy footprints as the span sits 6 feet above the lake's surface.
Al Neri, a spokesman for Mayor Sophie Masloff, said late Sunday city engineers weren't sure if the debris fell from the bridge or from collection nets placed under the span during the weekend.
Eventually, within about a one-year span, IBM fired four of the BWA's eight top officers, one of whom distributed confidential IBM salary scales in early 1980.
"The attention span of the public is short," he said.
The second battle, fought over a three-day span in August 1862, saw a bloody, decisive Confederate victory that set the stage for Rebel attacks on the North.
An upper deck, soaring so high above the drawbridge it would be unaffected as the span was opened and closed, might keep some of the traffic moving.
"When fully deployed, the spacecraft will have a span as large as 150 feet," Aviation Week and Space Technology reported. "It has the characteristics of an imaging radar or optical reconnaissance involving digital imaging, or both.
The alliance acknowledges a new reality in the once go-go high-tech industry, marking the end of a 20-year span in which fortunes were created almost overnight by novices and big companies took huge risks at the outer edge of electronics.

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