distance

Noun

• 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
    

• the interval between two times
  • the distance from birth to death
    
  • it all happened in the space of 10 minutes
    

• indifference by personal withdrawal
  • emotional distance
    

• 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
    

• a distant region
  • I could see it in the distance
    

• the property created by the space between two objects or points

Verb

• go far ahead of
  • He outdistanced the other runners
    

• keep at a distance
  • we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  space , aloofness , length , outdistance , outstrip