space

espacio, sitio

Zona vacía o sitio disponible para personas o cosas.

En inglés sencillo: An empty area, or room available for people or things.

• There is no space here.
• Leave some space between the chairs.
• Do we have enough space for another bed?

Cómo se usa: space for someone/something (There is space for two more people.); space to do something (We need space to store our bikes.)

Sinónimos: room, area

Expresiones frecuentes: enough space, storage space, space for something, make space

espacio

Región más allá de la atmósfera terrestre, donde están las estrellas y los planetas.

En inglés sencillo: The area beyond Earth's air, where stars and planets are.

• The rocket went into space.
• Astronauts live and work in space.
• Would you like to travel through space?

Sinónimos: outer space

Expresiones frecuentes: outer space, space travel, in space, space station

espacio

Conjunto de objetos matemáticos considerados como puntos, con reglas que describen sus relaciones.

En inglés sencillo: A set of mathematical objects treated as points, with rules describing how they relate.

• These vectors form a space.
• The function maps points into a different space.
• We studied the properties of a three-dimensional vector space.

Expresiones frecuentes: vector space, metric space, hilbert space

espaciar, separar

Colocar cosas dejando huecos entre ellas.

En inglés sencillo: To arrange things with gaps between them.

• Space the chairs evenly.
• We spaced the trees two meters apart.
• Can you space these pictures farther apart?

Cómo se usa: space things + distance + apart (Space the plants thirty centimeters apart.); space things out (Space the chairs out evenly.)

Sinónimos: separate, spread out

Expresiones frecuentes: space something apart, space something evenly, space out something

distraerse, quedarse en las nubes

Dejar de prestar atención a lo que ocurre porque la mente se va a otra cosa.

En inglés sencillo: To stop noticing what is happening because your mind wanders.

• I space out when I am tired.
• He spaced out during the lecture.
• Sorry, I spaced out and missed your question.

Cómo se usa: space out (I sometimes space out during long meetings.)

Sinónimos: daydream, zone out

Antónimos: concentrate

Expresiones frecuentes: space out, space out completely

espaciar

Añadir o ajustar los espacios entre letras, palabras o líneas de un texto.

En inglés sencillo: To add or adjust gaps between letters, words, or lines of writing.

• Space the lines evenly.
• The printer spaced the letters too widely.
• This paragraph is poorly spaced and hard to read.

Expresiones frecuentes: space the lines, space words evenly, space the text