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Definition distance
Etymology
From Middle English distance, distaunce, destaunce, from Old French destance, from Latin distantia (“distance, remoteneness, difference”), from dist?ns, present participle of dist? (“I stand apart, I am separate, distant, or different”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + st? (“I stand”). Compare Dutch afstand (“distance”, literally “off-stand, off-stance”), German Abstand.
Noun
distance (countable and uncountable, plural distances)
- (countable) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- Length or interval of time.
- (countable, informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
- Remoteness of place; a remote place.
- Remoteness in succession or relation.
- A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
- (uncountable, figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.
- (uncountable, figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
- The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
- The space measured back from the winning-post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in the final heat.
Verb
distance (third-person singular simple present distances, present participle distancing, simple past and past participle distanced)
- (transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.
- (transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
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