{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈdɪstəns" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/distance.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/distance.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English distance, distaunce, destaunce, from Old French destance, from Latin distantia (“distance, remoteness, difference”), from distāns, present participle of distō (“I stand apart, I am separate, distant, or different”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + stō (“I stand”). Compare Dutch afstand (“distance”, literally “off-stand, off-stance”), German Abstand." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(countable) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.\nThe distance to Petersborough is thirty miles.\nFrom Moscow, the distance is relatively short to Saint Petersburg, relatively long to Novosibirsk, but even greater to Vladivostok.\n1918, W B Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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." }, { "mean": "Length or interval of time.\n1718, Matthew Prior, Preface to a Collection of Poems\nten years' distance between my writing the one and the other\n1795, John Playfair, Elements of Geometry\nthe writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years" }, { "mean": "(countable, informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.\nWe're narrowing the distance between the two versions of the bill.  The distance between the lowest and next gear on my bicycle is annoying." }, { "mean": "Remoteness of place; a remote place.\n1819 June 23​, Geoffrey Crayon , “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: C. S. Van Winkle, , →OCLC, page 71:As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, hallooing, \"Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!\"\n1799, Thomas Campbell, The Pleasure of Hope\n'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.\n1712 (date written), Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. , London: J Tonson, , published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene v, page 1:\n waits at distance till he hears from Cato." }, { "mean": "Remoteness in succession or relation.\nthe distance between a descendant and his ancestor" }, { "mean": "A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.\n1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: , London: R Sare, , →OCLC:the horse that ran the whole field out of distance" }, { "mean": "(uncountable, figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.\nHe had promised to perform this task, but did not go the distance." }, { "mean": "(uncountable, figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.\nThe friendship did not survive the row: they kept each other at a distance.\n1625, Francis , “Of Seditions and Troubles”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:Setting them at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves.\n1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:On the part of Heaven, / Now alienated, distance and distaste.\n1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate , New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC: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." }, { "mean": "The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.\n1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour ‎, London: Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, published 1667, Act I, scene ii, page 4:though you ſee / The King is kind, I hope your modeſty / Will know, what diſtance to the Crown is due.\n1706, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preached in the Guild-Hall Chapel, September 28 1706\n’Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld." }, { "mean": "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 the final heat." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.\nHe distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.\n1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the \"Stranger People's\" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 71:\nThen the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To lose interest in a specific issue." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "distance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. 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