Distance

Noun

 * 1)  The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
 * The distance to Petersborough is thirty miles.
 * 1)  The entire amount of space to the objective.
 * He had promised to perform this task, but did not go the distance.
 * 1)  A considerable amount of space.
 * The friendship did not survive the row: they kept each other at a distance.

Derived terms

 * aesthetic distance
 * angular distance
 * automatic distance control
 * braking distance
 * Cartesian distance
 * critical distance
 * distance formula
 * distance learning
 * distance vision
 * distancer
 * edit distance
 * effort distance
 * Euclidean distance
 * focal distance
 * go the distance
 * Hamming distance
 * horizon distance
 * interarch distance
 * interplant distance


 * keep at a distance
 * keep one's distance
 * Levenshtein distance
 * long-distance
 * luminosity distance
 * mean distance between failure
 * middle-distance
 * polar distance
 * resistance distance
 * self-distance
 * short-distance
 * skip distance
 * social distance
 * spitting distance
 * striking distance
 * string distance
 * taxicab distance
 * walking distance
 * zenith distance

Related terms

 * distant

Verb

 * 1)  To move away (from) someone or something.
 * He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.
 * 1)  To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
 * 2) * 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 71:
 * Then the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound.

Adjectives for Distance
hazy; mean; weary; legendary; celestial; deepest; drowsy; magnificent; shooting; dusty; tantalizing; spacious; untold; extreme; impossible; obscure; safe; unattainable; perihelion; zenith; infinite; considerable; entire; visible; cautious; respectful; widening; exquisite; excessive; proportionate; inaccessible; twinkling; vast; unvarying; surlier; inscrutable; musket-shot; hailing; limited; unknown; inadequate; supporting; remote; short; surprising; observing; terrible; uncertain; linear; measured; delicate; mellow; dimmer; indefinite; required; insurmountable; discreet; sufficient; pathless; beautiful; unapproachable; ever-increasing; misty; retrospective; walking; previous; assaulting; unbridgeable; riding; running; dangerous; mean; enormous; indeterminate; broadening.

Verbs for Distance
annihilate—; estimate—; fade in—; fall at—; indicate—; mark—; measure—; pro¬portion—; rise in—; span—; stand in—; traverse—; —alienates; —enchants;  — lends ; hold at—.

Thesaurus
aloofness, ambit, amplitude, angle, area, arena, back, backdrop, background, backwardness, base, bashfulness, blankness, breadth, chill, chilliness, coldness, compass, constraint, coolness, detach, detachment, difference, disassociate, discreetness, discretion, dissemblance, dissimilitude, dissociate, distinction, divergence, divergency, expansion, expressionlessness, extension, extent, field, footage, footing, frigidity, frostiness, gap, get ahead of, ground, guardedness, haughtiness, hauteur, hinterland, hold the field, iciness, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, inaccessibility, infinity, interval, introversion, leave behind, length, lengthiness, linear measures, locale, long time, longitude, longness, measure, mileage, mise-en-scene, modesty, offishness, orbit, otherness, outdistance, outpace, outrun, overall length, overpass, pass, perpetuity, perspective, piece, post, purview, radius, range, reach, rear, remoteness, repression, reserve, reservedness, restraint, reticence, reticency, retirement, rigidity, scene, scope, seat, separate, setting, shoot ahead of, size, space, span, spell, spread, stage, stage set, stage setting, stand, standing, standoffishness, station, status, steal a march, stiffness, stretch, subduedness, suppression, surpass, sweep, theater, unaffability, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, unlikeness, venue, viewpoint, way, ways, withdrawal, withdrawnness, yardage

Etymology
From <  <  distantia: < distans:, present participle of distare: < di-:, dis-: + stare:.

Noun

 * Arabic: مَسافة
 * Basque: distantzia
 * Breton: pellder -ioù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 距离
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: [距離] (geori)
 * Latvian: attālums, atstatums
 * Lithuanian:, , sometimes
 * Macedonian: растојание, далечина, оддалеченост, раздалеченост,
 * Malayalam: ദൂരം (dooram), അകലം (akalam)
 * Nahuatl: kalkayotl
 * North Frisian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Slovene: (1)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: దూరం (dooram)
 * Vietnamese: khoảng cách
 * Welsh:

Verb

 * Breton: pellaat diouzh, mont diouzh
 * Bulgarian: дистанцирам се
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: להתרחק (lehitrakheq)
 * Indonesian: menjauhi
 * Interlingua: distantiar


 * Macedonian: се оддалечува, се раздалечува,  се дистанцира
 * Polish: dystansować się
 * Portuguese: distanciar-se, afastar-se
 * Romanian: distanţa
 * Spanish: alejar-se
 * Swedish: distansera sig, avlägsna sig
 * Telugu: దూరం చేసుకొను (dooram chEsukonu)

Etymology
From distance:.

Noun

 * 1) distance
 * 2) detachment

Noun

 * 1) distance

Derived terms

 * distancer