double-space
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Definition
- Verb:
- To type or format text leaving a full blank line between each line of text: The action of inserting a full, empty line of space between lines of typed or printed text, often to improve readability or to allow room for handwritten notes or corrections.
Usage
- This verb is used in the context of writing, typing, and document formatting.
- It is often used in the imperative mood for giving instructions (e.g., "Please double-space your essay.").
- It can be used in the passive voice (e.g., "The manuscript should be double-spaced.").
- The action results in a document where the vertical distance between lines is approximately twice the height of a single line of text.
Examples
- Verb:
- The professor asked the students to double-space their research papers.
- Remember to double-space the entire document before you print it.
- Most academic journals require that submissions be double-spaced.
- I double-spaced my draft so my editor would have space to write comments.
Advanced Usage
As a modifier (hyphenated): The term is commonly used as a hyphenated adjective to describe text formatted in this way.
- Please submit a double-spaced document.
- The double-spaced lines made the text much easier to read.
Instructional Context: Frequently appears in style guides and submission guidelines.
- "All essays must be typed and double-spaced using a 12-point font."
Variants and Related Words
Double-spacing (noun): The result or practice of formatting text with a full space between lines.
- The use of double-spacing is standard for manuscript submissions.
Single-space (verb): To type or format text with no blank line between lines of text.
- For the final version, you should single-space the document.
Line spacing (noun): The general term for the vertical distance between lines of text, which can be single, 1.5, double, etc.
Synonyms
- Format with double spacing: A more formal or descriptive way to give the same instruction.
Antonyms
- Single-space: To type with no intervening blank line.
Verb
- type with a full space between lines