distance
86
2.9
- noun
- /ˈdɪstəns/
:
intervalo de tiempo
- If only I could cross the distance between us on that hot plastic seat.
- temporal distance
- chronological distance
- historical distance
But the thought of death, death is always the same distance away from us.
- But the thought of death, death is always the same distance away from us.
- The period is the distance that it takes for the graph to complete a cycle.
- Does the distance between the workouts in a muscle group have an impact?
- And then secondly, you got to figure out how removed they are time distance, which people they're talking about.
Examples
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You know, Bob, long distance relationships can be difficult.
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Obviously, we have moved quite a distance from the early 1970s.
Academic text (1992) -
Because I called long distance to Buffalo...
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But with the way things are going, we're not even getting through half our usual distance.
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I warned you at the beginning that this wasn't gonna be easy because of the long distance.
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In this research project, distance education does not include correspondence or broadcast-based education.
Academic text (2011) -
Joint efforts could go some distance toward facilitating agreements on facts and, ultimately, consistent enforcement decisions.
Academic text (1994) -
Claudia comes in and looks at the picture but keeps her distance from Patricia.
Fiction book (1992) -
Despite more than fifty years' distance and extensive documentary evidence, certain questions about the Hitler-Stalin pact remain.
Academic text (1992) -
The distance between the two cities is over 200 miles.
Synonyms
381
3.1
A period of time between two events
315
1.0
The time it takes to travel to a place
89
3.1
The distance or time between two points
74
2.5
A space between two things that keeps them apart
15
2.9
Space between two objects
4
3.3
A period between two events that you can measure
1
3.4
A period of time between a start and an end
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
8.5
Average of the farthest and nearest distances of a planet or satellite from the body it orbits
- Specialized
1
9.9
The shortest distance from a radio transmitter where radio waves bounced by the ionosphere can be picked up
- Specialized
The angle between two objects as seen from one place, measured in degrees
- Specialized
The distance from a lens or mirror to the point where parallel light rays meet
- Specialized
Distance from the camera lens to the nearest point that looks sharp when the lens is focused very far away
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Distance comes from Latin distare 'to stand apart', and this idea also works for time. So a 'distance' of twenty years means those years 'stand apart' from the present and feel far away.