Spanning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPANNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SPAN, to extend over or across
• (of a bridge, arch, etc.) extend from side to side of
• extend across (a period of time or a range of subjects)
• yoke (an animal)
• cover or enclose with the length of one's hand
NOUN:
• the full extent of something from end to end; the amount of space that something covers
• the wingspan of an aircraft or a bird
• an arch or part of a bridge between piers or supports
• the maximum distance between the tips of the thumb and little finger, taken as the basis of a measurement equal to 9 inches.
• the length of time for which something lasts
• a short distance or time.
• a rope with its ends fastened at different points to a spar or other object in order to provide a purchase.
• a matched pair of horses, mules, or oxen.
• a team of two or more pairs of oxen.
• a work gang, especially of prisoners.
• a lot
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• present participle of span

Words related to SPANNING

span6 spanned10 spans7

Words that contain SPANNING

inspanning13 outspanning14

How to use SPANNING in a sentence

• He could see that it had not been a successful attempt, for the bomb struck the ground at some little distance away from the terminus of the structure spanning the river.
• They were determined that the glory of spanning the Atlantic by wireless telephone should come to America and American engineers.
• As a type and symbol, it is always about him, spanning the sunshine and shower of life with bows of hope.
• At this spot, the distance from rock to rock, spanning the gorge, may be a hundred yards, the wild and reddish piles rising on each side for more than a thousand feet.
• The city is entered from the north by a substantial stone bridge, spanning a swift but shallow river.
• If the poetry of the one is like the arch of the rainbow, spanning and adorning the earth, that of the other is like a dull, leaden cloud hanging over it.
• It seemed to deepen the silence about him, an accent on the expectant stillness, a thread of tinkling melody spanning an abyss.
• A notable feature in the landscape, as the city is approached by either railroad or river, is the wooden bridge spanning the river just at the steamboat landing.
• At the old stone bridge, spanning the river at the bottom of the High Street, he paused, and, resting his arms on the parapet, became intent on a derelict punt.
• Nothing can be more picturesque than its quaint, irregular wooden houses, and the low, mossy mills, spanning the clear streams which rush through its streets.
• Even then the project of spanning the Atlantic was in his mind.
• In 1897, a steel arch bridge was completed that was built around the old suspension bridge spanning the Niagara River over the Whirlpool Rapids.
• The southern of these was a low viaduct spanning the Kidron Valley and thence by steps or inclined approach ascending to the temple area.
• The two fairly constant features were the hall running the full depth of the house, and the verandah spanning the front.
• We crossed and recrossed the river several times by means of snow-bridges, which, spanning the limpid, jade-coloured water, had a very pretty effect.
• It was equivalent to spanning three bad fords with one bridge.
• A long iron bridge spanning the river was crossed, and the train reached the first station in the Boer country, Koomatipoort.
• With its Roman gates, still spanning the fair street, and casting, on the sunlight of to-day, the shade of fifteen hundred years ago.
• Then came the dawn and with it the long gray bridge spanning the drab and sullen Mississippi, then St.
• Noticing that it seemed very light outside, I went to the door and saw the bright arch of a splendid aurora spanning the whole sky.
• At the foot of the hill there was a little bridge spanning a rapid stream.
• Porter gained the top tier, and stood for a moment on a plank spanning a vat that was three or four times as large as any of the others.
• From without, approaching by the broad waterway, the city stretches forth to meet us, with the quaint wooden bridge spanning the noble river, and the hills forming a zone behind.
• Overhead was an arch of brilliant light a hundred miles thick, spanning the whole of the visible heavens.
• The vast, sunlit arch of the Rings towered up to the zenith, apparently spanning the whole visible heavens.
• I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone.
• Bridges were crossing the Mississippi and spanning the chasms in the Rocky Mountains.
• Just below me, uprooted by some storm, lay a giant poplar spanning the little brook.
• The strange, wild frieze moved slowly and silently onwards amid a setting of black stone and yellow sand, with the one arch of vivid blue spanning the rugged edges of the ravine.
• Just ahead, where a short time before had been a bridge spanning a deep chasm, there was now nothing but space.
• The sight of these sails drew them on until, lo! on a sudden they looked upon a bridge, far newer and wider than the one behind them, spanning a river far more majestic than Avon.
• One day we go to see Arch Rock, a beautiful natural bridge of rock spanning a chasm some eighty feet in height and forty in width.
• But the calm man gazed as tranquilly into the fog as if he beheld a radiant bow of promise spanning the gray sky.
• As we approach the entrance of the Park, we see another magnificent arch spanning the road.

Similar words containing SPANN without suffix ing

spanned10 spanner9 spanners10 inspanned12 inspanning13 outspanned13 outspanning14

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