Definition of Distance

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Distance

The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place.

Remoteness of place; a remote place.

A space marked out in the last part of a race course.

Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left.

Space between two antagonists in fencing.

The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape.

Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety.

Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events.

The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.

A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.

Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.

The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh.

To place at a distance or remotely.

To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.

To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.

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Distance Quotations

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Mohandas Gandhi

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Charles de Gaulle

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Dwight L. Moody

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
Og Mandino

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
Bono

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Rudyard Kipling

Distance Translations

distance in Afrikaans is afstand
distance in Danish is afstand
distance in Dutch is afstand, eind
distance in German is Entfernung {f}, Abstand {m}
distance in Italian is spazio, ablazione
distance in Latin is loginquitas
distance in Norwegian is avstand, distanse
distance in Spanish is alejamiento, distancia, lontananza

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