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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



... came out that this scheme had gone the way of the other. The clerk who should have filed the plans in the register's office left that duty to some one else, and it took just twenty-one days to make the journey, a distance of five hundred feet or less. The Greater New York had come then with Tammany, and the thing was not heard of again. When I traced the failure down to the clerk in question, and told him that he had killed the park, he yawned ...
— The Battle with the Slum • Jacob A. Riis
... the hunchback and brought him stiffly to attention, mouth open and eyes bulging with horror. One of those unbelievably white arms stretched forth, threateningly tense, and a jeweled finger leveled itself at the rash Ionian. From it there flashed an intangible something that leaped to bridge the distance with the speed of light, something that screeched as it flew and crashed like breaking glass when it struck Antazzo's horrified face. In an instant he was on the floor, screaming and ...
— The Copper-Clad World • Harl Vincent
... veterans were teasing Watts and the women railing at Mrs. McHurdie, Hendricks discovered that it was one hundred and seventy-eight steps from one end of the walk to the other, and that to go entirely around the building made the distance fifty-four steps more. It was almost train time before Adrian Brownwell arrived. When the dapper little chap came with his bright crimson carnation, and his flashing red necktie, and his inveterate gloves and cane, Hendricks ...
— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White
... for long-distance calling domestic: microwave radio relay network for trunk lines international: tropospheric scatter to Trinidad; satellite earth station ...
— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... and grow accustomed to it, and when they fly from the nest they are prevented by the sound of it from wandering and getting bewildered. If they happen to fly beyond certain bounds, the song of the male parent warns them of their distance, and causes them to turn and draw near the place from which it seems to issue. Thus the song of the male bird, always uttered within a certain circumference, of which the nest is the centre, becomes a kind of sentinel voice, to keep the young birds ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various


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