distance (English)

distance

Alternative forms

  • distaunce

    • Etymology

    From - fro, from - lang=la|distantia||distance, remoteneness, difference, from - distans, present participle of - distare||to stand apart, be separate, distant, or different, from - dis-||apart + - stare||to stand.

    Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɪstəns/

  • en-us-distance.ogg

    • Noun

    s|-

    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.
  • ''There is a long distance between Moscow and Vladivostok.

    • - figuratively The entire amount of space to the objective.

  • He had promised to perform this task, but did not go the distance.

    • - figuratively A considerable amount of space.

  • The friendship did not survive the row: they kept each other at a distance.

    • Synonyms

  • Engelska - farness

    • Derived terms

    Terms derived from distance

  • 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

    • Translations

    amount of space between two points

  • Arabiska - مسافة
  • Basque - distantzia
  • Breton - pellder|m|xs=Breton -ioù
  • Bulgariska - разстояние
    • , дистанция
  • Katalanska - distància
  • Chinese:
  • : Mandarin - 距離|sc=Hani, - 距离|tr=jùlí|sc=Hani
  • Tjeckiska - vzdálenost
  • Danska - afstand
  • Holländska - afstand
    • , eind
  • Esperanto - distanco|xs=Esperanto, - malproksimo|xs=Esperanto
  • Finska - etäisyys
  • Franska - distance
  • Tyska - Distanz
    • , Entfernung, Abstand
  • Haitian Creole - distans
  • Hebrew - מרחק|m|tr=merkhák
  • Indonesiska - jarak
  • Interlingua - distantia|xs=Interlingua
  • Italienska - distanza
  • Japanska - 距離
  • Koreanska - 거리
    • ()
  • Lettiska - attālums
    • , atstatums
  • Litauiska - nuotolis
    • , atstumas
  • Litauiska - distancija
  • Makedonska - растојание
  • Makedonska - далечина
    • , оддалеченост, раздалеченост,
  • Malayalam: ദൂരം (dooram), അകലം (akalam)
  • Nahuatl - kalkayotl
  • North Frisian - fiirense|f
  • Polska - odległość
    • , droga, dystans
  • Portugisiska - distância
  • Rumänska - distanță
  • Ryska - расстояние
    • , дистанция, отдалённость
  • Serbo-Croatian:
  • : Cyrillic - удаљеност|f|alt=у̀да̄љено̄ст, - даљина|f|alt=даљѝна
  • : Roman - udaljenost|f, - daljina|f|alt=daljìna

    • Verb

    distances|distancing|distanced

    To move away (from) someone or something.

  • He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.

    • To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.

    * 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.

    Translations

    move away

  • Breton: pellaat diouzh, mont diouzh
  • Bulgariska - дистанцирам се
  • Holländska - verwijderen
  • Finska - etäännyttää
  • Franska - éloigner
    • , s'éloigner
  • Tyska - entfernen
  • Hebrew - התרחק|tr=hitrakhék
  • Indonesian: menjauhi
  • Interlingua: distantiar
  • Makedonska - се оддалечува
  • Makedonska - се раздалечува
  • Makedonska - се дистанцира
  • Polish: dystansować się
  • Portuguese: distanciar-se, afastar-se
  • Romanian: distanța
  • Spanish: alejar-se
  • Svenska - distansera
  • Svenska - avlägsna
    • sig
  • Telugu - దూరం చేసుకొను (dooram chEsukonu)

    • Statistics

  • - loved|deal|625|distance|thinking|beginning|unless

    • External links

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    distance (Danish)

    Etymology

  • Franska - da
    • - lang=da.

    Pronunciation

  • - d̥iˈsd̥ɑŋsə|lang=da

    • Noun

    n|r

    distance#English|distance

    detachment

    Inflection

    n|r

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    distance (French)

    Pronunciation

  • - audio
  • - lang=fr

    • Noun

    f

    #English|distance

    Derived terms

  • distancer
    • simple:distance

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