color="gray">color="#222222">(distances, distancing, distanced)
color="slategray">Frequency: color="gray">The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
The color="blue">distance color="blue">between two points or places is the amount of space between them.
color="#222222">color="#005500">...the distance between the island and the nearby shore...
color="#222222">color="#005500">Everything is within walking distance...
color="green">color="gray">N-VAR: with supp, oft N between pl-n
2.
When two things are very far apart, you talk about the color="blue">distance between them.
color="#222222">color="#005500">The distance wouldn't be a problem.
color="green">color="gray">N-UNCOUNT
3.
color="blue">Distance learning or color="blue">distance education involves studying at home and sending your work to a college or university, rather than attending the college or university in person.
color="#222222">color="#005500">I'm doing a theology degree by distance learning.
color="green">color="gray">ADJ: ADJ n
4.
When you want to emphasize that two people or things do not have a close relationship or are not the same, you can refer to the color="blue">distance color="blue">between them.
color="#222222">color="#005500">There was a vast distance between psychological clues and concrete proof...
color="green">color="gray">N-UNCOUNT: usu N between pl-n color="gray">[color="darkgreen">emphasis]
5.
If you can see something color="blue">in the distance, you can see it, far away from you.
color="#222222">color="#005500">We suddenly saw her in the distance...
color="green">color="gray">N-SING: in/into the N
6.
color="blue">Distance is coolness or unfriendliness in the way that someone behaves towards you. (color="gray">FORMAL)
color="#222222">color="#005500">There were periods of sulking, of pronounced distance, of coldness.
color="darkviolet">? color="gray">closeness
color="green">color="gray">N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
7.
If you color="blue">distance color="blue">yourself from a person or thing, or if something color="blue">distances you color="blue">from them, you feel less friendly or positive towards them, or become less involved with them.
color="#222222">color="#005500">The author distanced himself from some of the comments in his book...
color="#222222">color="#005500">Television may actually be distancing the public from the war.
color="green">color="gray">VERB: V pron-refl from n, V n from n
• distanced
color="#222222">color="#005500">Clough felt he'd become too distanced from his fans.
color="green">color="gray">ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ from n
8.
If you are color="blue">at a distance from something, or if you see it or remember it color="blue">from a distance, you are a long way away from it in space or time.
color="#222222">color="#005500">The only way I can cope with my mother is at a distance...
color="#222222">color="#005500">Now I can look back on the whole tragedy from a distance of forty years.
color="green">color="gray">PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR
9.
If you color="blue">keep your color="blue">distance from someone or something or color="blue">keep them color="blue">at a distance, you do not become involved with them.
color="#222222">color="#005500">Jay had always tended to keep his girlfriends at a distance.
color="green">color="gray">PHRASE: V inflects
10.
If you color="blue">keep your color="blue">distance from someone or something, you do not get physically close to them. (color="gray">OLD-FASHIONED)
color="#222222">color="#005500">He walked towards the doorway, careful to keep his distance.
color="green">color="gray">PHRASE: V inflects