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distance | American Dictionary

distance
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈdɪs·təns/
the amount of space between two places or things:
[ C ]The distance from San Francisco to Los Angeles is about 400 miles.
 at/from a distance
At/from a distance means if you are not too near:
From a distance, he looks a little like his mother.
 in the distance
In the distance means at or from a point far away:
We could see the mountains in the distance.
distance
verb[ T ]
us/ˈdɪs·təns/
If you distance yourself from something, you try to become less involved or connected with it:
The candidate distanced himself from the extremists in the party.

Examples of distance

distance
Two intermediate points on the string were marked with tightly knotted thread and were used as points from which distances could be measured.
The difference of the focal distances is a constant.
The larger size of these nomads allows them to cover ground and move over longer distances than smaller animals.
Common gene content between two organisms is proposed as a genomic estimation of distances between them.
Molecular phylogenies of these collections of genes were constructed using neighbor-joining and maximum likelihood methods, extracting 24 sets of distances.
Branch points located at long distances are also suboptimal.
One can not be distanced from or emotionally neutral about issues of self-knowledge.
In theory, and to some extent in practice, it does act as a means of distancing broadcasting from government.
If distances to local rural district council schools are too great, they have to rely on whatever education is provided by the farmer.
Only coal was moved long distances by canals, railways and roads.
The reasons were the lack of available places and the long distances between home and school.
As the terrace is the main viewing station, the abbey is looked down on, it is distanced or put in perspective.
Vagrants, for example, were more mobile and travelled longer distances than other migrants.
If, however, the distances vary, the resulting intersections will produce compartments and facets of all the possible combinations.
Furthermore, we will build densely, but not in the between the building heights and their reciprocal distances form of high rises or so-called low density.
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Collocations withdistance

distance

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angular distance
A fault plane is assigned to a subset that produces a minimum angulardistance with the fault.
average distance
Transport costs to and from the practice for alternative treatment were not calculated since no data were available on the averagedistance to such practices.
commuting distance
It appears that such a strategy aided recruitment, but it was often at the expense of "poaching" staff from neighbouring services within commutingdistance.
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