"respacing" meaning in English

See respacing in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: respacings [plural]
Etymology: From re- + spacing. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|re|spacing}} re- + spacing Head templates: {{en-noun}} respacing (plural respacings)
  1. spacing again, or by a different amount
    Sense id: en-respacing-en-noun-ohrU1Ab9

Verb

Etymology: From re- + spacing. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|re|spacing}} re- + spacing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} respacing
  1. present participle and gerund of respace Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: respace
    Sense id: en-respacing-en-verb-fSjEInDk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with re-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with re-: 40 60 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 14 86 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 91

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "re",
        "3": "spacing"
      },
      "expansion": "re- + spacing",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From re- + spacing.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "respacing",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 89",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 60",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with re-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 86",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 91",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "respace"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of respace"
      ],
      "id": "en-respacing-en-verb-fSjEInDk",
      "links": [
        [
          "respace",
          "respace#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "respacing"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "re",
        "3": "spacing"
      },
      "expansion": "re- + spacing",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From re- + spacing.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "respacings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "respacing (plural respacings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 May, “Track Layout at Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 290:",
          "text": "No major platform improvements have been possible in the past because the piers of an overbridge at the north end of the station prevented respacing of the tracks.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "spacing again, or by a different amount"
      ],
      "id": "en-respacing-en-noun-ohrU1Ab9",
      "links": [
        [
          "spacing",
          "spacing"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "respacing"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with re-",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "re",
        "3": "spacing"
      },
      "expansion": "re- + spacing",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From re- + spacing.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "respacing",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "respace"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of respace"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "respace",
          "respace#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "respacing"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with re-",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "re",
        "3": "spacing"
      },
      "expansion": "re- + spacing",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From re- + spacing.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "respacings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "respacing (plural respacings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 May, “Track Layout at Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 290:",
          "text": "No major platform improvements have been possible in the past because the piers of an overbridge at the north end of the station prevented respacing of the tracks.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "spacing again, or by a different amount"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spacing",
          "spacing"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "respacing"
}

Download raw JSONL data for respacing meaning in English (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (51d164f and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.