distance
suomi-englanti sanakirjadistance englannista suomeksi
jonkin ajan kuluttua
etäännyttää
välimatka
jättää jälkeensä
kaukaisuus
ajallinen etäisyys
pidättyvyys
Substantiivi
Verbi
etäännyttää, tehdä eroa, ottaa välimatkaa, etääntyä, ottaa etäisyyttä, pestä kätensä
distance englanniksi
The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
''The distance to Petersborough is thirty miles.''
''From Moscow, the distance is relatively short to Saint Petersburg, relatively long to Novosibirsk, but even greater to Vladivostok.''
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp), down the nave to the western door.(..)At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
Length or interval of time.
1718, (w), Preface to a Collection of Poems
- ten years' distance between my writing the one and the other
1795, (w), ''Elements of Geometry''
- the writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years
The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
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Remoteness of place; a remote place.
(RQ:Irving Sketch Book)
1799, (w), ''The Pleasure of Hope''
- 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
(RQ:Addison Cato)
- He waits at distance till he hears from Cato.
Remoteness in succession or relation.
A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop)
A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
(RQ:Bacon Essayes)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Besant Ivory Gate)Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
(RQ:Dryden The Indian Emperour)
1706, (w), ''A Sermon Preached in the Guild-Hall Chapel, September 28 1706''
- ’Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld.
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.
To move away (from) someone or something.
''He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.''
To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, ''In the "Stranger People's" Country'', Nebraska 2005, p. 71:
- Then the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound.
To lose interest in a specific issue.
To or at a great distance.
''rigardi pentraĵon distance''.
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2014, Jean-Claude Bernardon ,''Résolution de conflits''
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