different between distance vs unnear
distance
English
Alternative forms
- distaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English distance, distaunce, destaunce, from Old French destance, from Latin distantia (“distance, remoteness, 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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?s.t?ns/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?d?s.t?ns/
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.
- The distance to Petersborough is thirty miles.
- From Moscow, the distance is relatively short to Saint Petersburg, relatively long to Novosibirsk, but even greater to Vladivostok.
- Length or interval of time.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Preface to a Collection of Poems
- ten years' distance between my writing the one and the other
- 1795, John Playfair, Elements of Geometry
- the writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Preface to a Collection of Poems
- (countable, informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
- Remoteness of place; a remote place.
- 1799, Thomas Campbell, The Pleasure of Hope
- 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
- [He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato.
- 1799, Thomas Campbell, The Pleasure of Hope
- 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.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
- Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
- The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- I hope your modesty / Will know what distance to the crown is due.
- 1706, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preached in the Guild-Hall Chapel, September 28 1706
- 'Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld.
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- 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.
Synonyms
- (remoteness): farness
Derived terms
Related terms
- distant
Translations
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.
- He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.
- (transitive) 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.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 71:
Derived terms
- outdistance
Translations
Further reading
- distance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- distance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- distance at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- danciest
Danish
Etymology
From French distance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /distan?s?/, [d?i?sd???s?]
Noun
distance c (singular definite distancen, plural indefinite distancer)
- distance
- detachment
Declension
Further reading
- “distance” in Den Danske Ordbog
Esperanto
Etymology
From distanco +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis?tant?se/
- Hyphenation: dis?tan?ce
- Rhymes: -ant?se
Adverb
distance
- To or at a great distance.
- rigardi pentra?on distance.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.t??s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Etymology 1
From Latin distantia.
Noun
distance f (plural distances)
- distance
Derived terms
Related terms
- distant
Etymology 2
Verb
distance
- inflection of distancer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “distance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latvian
Noun
distance f (5 declension)
- distance
- interval
- railway division
Declension
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unnear
English
Etymology
un- +? near
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?n??(?)/
Preposition
unnear
- (chiefly obsolete) Not near; at a distance from.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Davies (Muse's Sacrifice) to this entry?)
- 2000, Harry Guest, The Artist on the Artist
- easy wheatfields of the Berry where Joseph was born (not unnear George Sand's beloved home at Nohant)
Anagrams
- unearn
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