Pace, Pacemaker, Apace, Space II

With an aim to keep the country clean, India is keeping apace. Apace is an adverb: quickly, swiftly, rapidly, speedily, and chop-chop. Apace is used in poetic or literary contexts. Apace is derived from the Old French word ‘a pas’ meaning at considerable pace.

The mango trees are growing apace due to sufficient water as a result of rains. The work on the construction site is progressing apace. Family’s preparations apace for the youngest daughter’s marriage. Space has many meanings, refer a standard dictionary for its comprehensive meaning.

Space is noun, and refers to the unused area between two buildings, a blank area, two points, two objects; unoccupied area, place, room; large area that is not used; continuous expanse, interval of time; an empty area in between two objects and structures, area earmarked for something.

The lawns around the Indian Gate have enough space to accommodate thousands of picnickers. Classrooms are taking the students to virtual space explorations. Watch this space is a catchphrase, and cramped for space is an idiom. Space cloth is the cloth used for screening and sieving of solids.

Spacebar is the key on the keyboard for creating space between words or letters. Spacing is a noun: the amount of space let between words, objects, etc. Space means the universe beyond the earth’s surface, the unlimited expanse, the location outside the Earth’s atmosphere (spacecraft, spaceman, spaceship, space shuttle, spacesuit, spacewalk, space station, space biology, space blanket, space age…).

Space age is the beginning of exploring space by the humankind. Space age began in 1957 with the USSR (defunct but extant as Russia and CIS) and the USA making progress. Space alien is the extra-terrestrial object (or person, not happened so far except in movies like PK but hope is there); a visitor from outer space. Astronauts go to space like hikers to the hills.

Do you want to be a pace bowler or spaceman.Space etymology is traced to Latin, Proto-Indo-European and also derived from Anglo-Norman word: a variant of espace, espas, spaze and from the Latin word spatium.

Space attenuation is the loss of energy of a signal when it travels through a medium. Spaced is an adjective meaning in a state of euphoria, in a state of disorientation usually as a result of taking drugs, or because of substance abuse.

Spacer and spacing are nouns: a larger unoccupied area or region. Spacious (adjective), spaciously (adverb), and spaciousness (noun) refers to large area, ample space, roomy. The empty space in front of St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican is welcoming.