Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
&c. (compensate) 30; overpoise[obs3]. 
     Adj. counteracting &c. v.; antagonistic, conflicting, retroactive,
renitent, reactionary; contrary &c. 14. 
     Adv. although &c. 30; in spite of &c. 708; against. 
     Phr. “for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and
opposite in direction” [Newton].

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                         CLASS II
                    WORDS RELATING TO SPACE

SECTION I. SPACE IN GENERAL

1.  ABSTRACT SPACE % —­ dimensions must be broken down separately —­

     #180. [Indefinite space.] Space.—­ N. space, extension, extent,
superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace; room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread.
     dimension, length &c. 200; distance &c. 196; size &c. 192; volume;
hypervolume.
     latitude, play, leeway, purchase, tolerance, room for maneuver.
     spare room, elbow room, house room; stowage, roomage[obs3], margin;
opening, sphere, arena.
     open space, free space; void &c. (absence) 187; waste; wildness,
wilderness; moor, moorland; campagna[obs3].
     abyss &c. (interval) 198; unlimited space; infinity &c. 105; world;
ubiquity &c. (presence) 186; length and breadth of the land.
     proportions, acreage; acres, acres and perches, roods and perches,
hectares, square miles; square inches, square yards, square centimeters, square meters, yards (clothing) &c.; ares, arpents[obs3]. 
     Adj. spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample;
widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed; boundless &c. (infinite) 105; shoreless[obs3], trackless, pathless; extended. 
     Adv. extensively &c. adj.; wherever; everywhere; far and near, far and
wide; right and left, all over, all the world over; throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land; under the sun, in every quarter; in all quarters, in all lands; here there and everywhere; from pole to pole, from China to Peru [Johnson], from Indus to the pole [Pope], from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end; on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass; to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth.

#180a.  Inextension.—­ N. inextension[obs3], nonextension[obs3], point; dot; atom &c. (smallness) 32.

     #181. [Definite space.] Region.—­ N. region, sphere, ground, soil,
area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; reservation, pale &c. (limit) 233; compartment, department; clearing.
     [political divisions:  see property &c. 780 and Government &c. 737a.].
     arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, parcel,
inclosure, close, field, court; enclave, reserve, preserve; street &c. (abode) 189.
     clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude.
     biosphere; lithosphere. 
     Adj. territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.

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