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distance
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Noun
  • a remote point in time
    • if that happens it will be at some distance in the future
    • at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details
  • the interval between two times
    • the distance from birth to death
    • it all happened in the space of 10 minutes
  • indifference by personal withdrawal
    • emotional distance
  • size of the gap between two places
    • the distance from New York to Chicago
    • he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points
  • a distant region
    • I could see it in the distance
  • the property created by the space between two objects or points
Verb
  • go far ahead of
    • He outdistanced the other runners
  • keep at a distance
    • we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living
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