Noun
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a remote point in time
"if that happens it will be at some distance in the future"
"at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details"
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the interval between two times
"the distance from birth to death"
"it all happened in the space of 10 minutes"
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indifference by personal withdrawal
"emotional distance"
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size of the gap between two places
"the distance from New York to Chicago"
"he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"
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a distant region
"I could see it in the distance"
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the property created by the space between two objects or points
Verb
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go far ahead of
"He outdistanced the other runners"
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keep at a distance
"we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living"