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Määritelmät
Verbi
- Often followed by from: to set (someone or something) at a distance (noun ) from someone or something else.
- To cause (a place, a thing, etc.) to seem distant, or (figurative) unfamiliar.
- To leave behind (someone or something moving in the same direction; specifically, other competitors in a race) some distance away; to outpace, to outstrip.
- To keep (someone) emotionally or socially apart from another person or people.
- To exceed or surpass (someone, such as a peer or rival); to outdo, to outstrip.
- (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away from someone or something, especially because one does not want to be associated with that person or thing.
- (chiefly US, horse racing, archaic) Of a racehorse: to beat (another horse) by a certain distance; also (passive voice), to cause (a horse) to be disqualified by beating it by a certain distance.
- To cover the entire distance to (something).
- To depart from (a place); to leave (a place) behind.
- To indicate or measure the distance to (a place).
- To set (two or more things) at regular distances from each other; to space, to space out.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Often followed by from.
- To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something.
- (figurative) To keep oneself emotionally or socially apart from another person or people; to keep one's distance.
Substantiivi
- An amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- (horse racing) Chiefly in by a distance: a space of more than 30 lengths (about 80 yards or 7.3 metres) between two racehorses finishing a race, used to describe the margin of victory; also (archaic), any space of 240 yards (about 219.5 metres) on a racecourse.
- Chiefly in from a distance: a place which is far away or remote; specifically (especially painting), a more remote part of a landscape or view as contrasted with the foreground.
- Chiefly with a modifying word: a measure between two points or quantities; a difference, a variance.
- An interval or length of time between events.
- (figurative) A separation in some way other than space or time.
- Synonym of length (“an extent measured along the longest dimension of an object”).
- (figurative) A disagreement, a dispute; also, an estrangement.
- (music) A difference in pitch between sounds; an interval.
- The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- The maximum amount of space between a boxer and their opponent within which the boxer can punch effectively.
- Often in go the distance, last the distance, or stay the distance: the scheduled duration of a bout.
- (fencing) The amount of space between a fencer and their opponent, which the fencer tries to control in order to gain an advantage over the opponent.
- (horse racing) Originally, 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 a subsequent heat; also, the point on the racecourse that space away from the winning post; now, the point on a racecourse 240 yards from the winning post.
- (military) The amount of space between soldiers or cavalry riders marching or standing in a rank; also, the amount of space between such ranks.
- (sports) The complete length of a course over which a race is run.
- Chiefly preceded by the, especially in into or in the distance: the place that is far away or remote.
- The state of being separated from something else, especially by a long way; the state of being far off or remote; farness, remoteness.
- The entire amount of progress to an objective.
- The state of remoteness or separation in some way other than space or time.
- The state of people not being close, friendly, or intimate with each other; also, the state of people who were once close, friendly, or intimate with each other no longer being so; estrangement.
- Excessive reserve or lack of friendliness shown by a person; aloofness, coldness.
- The rank to which an important person belongs.
- The state of disagreement or dispute between people; dissension.
- Often followed by to or towards: an attitude of remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, ceremoniousness.
Esimerkit
- the distance between a descendant and his ancestor
- Then the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound.
- He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.
- 'Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld.
- I hope your modesty / Will know what distance to the crown is due.
- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[...]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
- On the part of Heaven, / Now alienated, distance and distaste.
- Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves.
- The friendship did not survive the row: they kept each other at a distance.
- He had promised to perform this task, but did not go the distance.
- the horse that ran the whole field out of distance
- The distance to Petersborough is thirty miles.
- [He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato.
- 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
- easily managed from a distance
- The distance between the lowest and next gear on my bicycle is annoying.
- We're narrowing the distance between the two versions of the bill.
- the writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years
- ten years' distance between one and the other
- Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,, down the nave to the western door.[...]At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
- There is a long distance between Moscow and Vladivostok.
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