Span is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPAN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to extend over or across
• turn or whirl round quickly
• toss (a coin).
• (with reference to a ball) move or cause to move through the air with a revolving motion
• spin-dry (clothes).
• play (a record)
• shape (sheet metal) by pressure applied during rotation on a lathe
• draw out and twist (the fibres of wool, cotton, or other material) to convert them into yarn, either by hand or with machinery
• make (threads) by drawing out and twisting fibres of wool, cotton, or other material
• (of a spider or a silkworm or other insect) produce (gossamer or silk) or construct (a web or cocoon) by extruding a fine viscous thread from a special gland.
• give (a news story) a particular emphasis or bias
• fish with a spinner
• The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
• Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
• The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports.
• 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.
• A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
• 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.
• To reach from one side of to the order; to stretch over as an arch.
• To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
• To be matched, as horses.
• to cover or extend over an area or time period
• stretch or extend across
• (of a person's head) give a sensation of dizziness
NOUN:
• a rapid turning or whirling motion
• revolving motion imparted to a ball in a game, especially cricket, tennis, or snooker
• an uncontrolled fast revolving descent of an aircraft, resulting from a stall
• the intrinsic angular momentum of a subatomic particle.
• a brief trip in a vehicle for pleasure
• the presentation of information in a particular way; a slant, especially a favourable one
• a piece of good or bad luck
• space between two points
• the complete duration of something
• the distance or interval between two points
• two items of the same kind
• a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
• a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
• the act of sitting or standing astride
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• imp. & p. p. of Spin.

Words related to SPAN

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Words that contain SPAN

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How to use SPAN in a sentence

• And all the women that were wise hearted to work with their hands, span, and brought the spun work, both of Iacinth, scarlet, purple and byss.
• But almost all the arches of the stone bridges I came to had fallen in, and I had to cross the streams they were supposed to span in a small boat, and make my horse swim after me.
• Half a century is but a brief span in your long annals, yet this half century that ends to-day will stand amid the floods of your historic ages, a far-shining landmark.
• Bashti had lived very long, had lived most wisely and thought much, and was thoroughly aware that, having lived far beyond the span of man his own span was very short.
• The people haue eares which be marueilous great of a span long, which they draw out in length by deuises when they be yong.
• It was a span of yielding earth into which the old man now dug his pick.
• We have penetrated the secrets of the body, and can almost conquer death and indefinitely prolong the span of human days.
• Then they would span a chasm on a narrow stone bridge, or plunge through an arch dividing the solid mountain.
• Hiram, with eight of his own black horses hitched to the wagon, and four span of mules and horses leading, went ahead, as usual.
• Generally, in addition, wire cables are stretched across the span, from which lifting tackle is suspended.
• Therefore, the souls of those who have passed away from earth and completed their span of mortal pilgrimage in the Titanic disaster have hastened to a world superior to this.
• During her whole life span, that heavenly being was subjected to ordeals and tribulations.
• Her wheels will be forty-five feet in diameter and their buckets nineteen feet span.
• The chapel started its new span of life with a congregation meagre enough, but Sunday by Sunday the number grew.
• They have a daughter who grows one span each time she is bathed.
• Her words were as firm as the old fir tree just outside the gates, which was so big that fifteen men could scarcely span it.
• Immediately afterwards a span of mules came in the direction of the supposed gun, so Malherbe and I retreated as fast as we could, to find a better cover more to the left.
• Few men have lived a life filled with such power and blessing in such a short span of years.

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