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Distance   /dˈɪstəns/   Listen
Distance

noun
1.
The property created by the space between two objects or points.
2.
A distant region.
3.
Size of the gap between two places.  Synonym: length.  "He determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"
4.
Indifference by personal withdrawal.  Synonym: aloofness.
5.
The interval between two times.  Synonym: space.  "It all happened in the space of 10 minutes"
6.
A remote point in time.  "At a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details"
verb
(past & past part. distanced; pres. part. distancing)
1.
Keep at a distance.
2.
Go far ahead of.  Synonyms: outdistance, outstrip.



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"Distance" Quotes from Famous Books



... Some distance farther there is a stile, sitting upon which the view ranges over two adjacent meadows. They are bounded by a copse of ash stoles and young oak trees, and the lesser of the meads is full of rush bunches and dotted with green ant-hills. Among ...
— Nature Near London • Richard Jefferies
... OF THE CHAMBER, who had entered during the last dialogue, and had been standing at a distance and listening to it with visible expressions of the deepest interest, advances in extreme agitation, and throws himself at the ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III • Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief)
... often soothes the agonies of death, was denied her. None were at hand to soothe her mind, or wipe away her tears; and her maternal heart was rent by the distracting expectation of her son's dissolution. At the very point of despair, she left Ishmael under a shrub, and retired to some distance to avoid the ...
— Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I • Francis Augustus Cox
... widely distinct families possess these organs. The sound thus produced can sometimes be heard at the distance of several feet or even yards (73. Wollaston, 'On Certain Musical Curculionidae,' 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' vol. vi. 1860, p. 14.), but it is not comparable with that made by the Orthoptera. The rasp generally consists of a narrow, slightly-raised surface, crossed by ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... justice. 18. Some valuable land was overflown. 19. She come just after you left. 20. They sung a new tune which they had not sang before. 21. The water I drunk there was better than any that I had drank before. 22. The leaves had fell. 23. I had rode a short distance when the storm begun to gather. 24. I found the water froze. 25. He raised up. 26. He run till he became so weary that he was forced to lay down. 27. I knowed that it was so, for I seen him when he done it. 28. I had began to think that you had forsook us. 29. I am afraid that ...
— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg


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