distance

Senso

Noun

1. An amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
2. An amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
3. Chiefly in from a distance: a place which is far away or remote; specifically (especially painting), a more remote part of a landscape or view as contrasted with the foreground.
4. Chiefly with a modifying word: a measure between two points or quantities; a difference, a variance.
5. An interval or length of time between events.
6. A separation in some way other than space or time.
7. (obsolete) Synonym of length (“an extent measured along the longest dimension of an object”)
8. (obsolete) A disagreement, a dispute; also, an estrangement.
9. (obsolete) A difference in pitch between sounds; an interval.
10. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
11. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
12. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
13. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
14. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
15. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
16. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
17. Chiefly preceded by the, especially in into or in the distance: the place that is far away or remote.
18. The state of being separated from something else, especially by a long way; the state of being far off or remote; farness, remoteness.
19. The entire amount of progress to an objective.
20. The state of remoteness or separation in some way other than space or time.
21. The state of people not being close, friendly, or intimate with each other; also, the state of people who were once close, friendly, or intimate with each other no longer being so; estrangement.
22. Excessive reserve or lack of friendliness shown by a person; aloofness, coldness.
23. (obsolete) The rank to which an important person belongs.
24. (obsolete) The state of disagreement or dispute between people; dissension.
25. (obsolete) Often followed by to or towards: an attitude of remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, ceremoniousness.

Verb

1. Often followed by from: to set (someone or something) at a distance (noun sense 1.1) from someone or something else.
2. To cause (a place, a thing, etc.) to seem distant, or (figurative) unfamiliar.
3. To leave behind (someone or something moving in the same direction; specifically, other competitors in a race) some distance away; to outpace, to outstrip.
4. To keep (someone) emotionally or socially apart from another person or people.
5. To exceed or surpass (someone, such as a peer or rival); to outdo, to outstrip.
6. To keep (oneself) away from someone or something, especially because one does not want to be associated with that person or thing.
7. Of a racehorse: to beat (another horse) by a certain distance; also (passive voice), to cause (a horse) to be disqualified by beating it by a certain distance.
8. (obsolete) To cover the entire distance to (something).
9. (obsolete) To depart from (a place); to leave (a place) behind.
10. (obsolete) To indicate or measure the distance to (a place).
11. (obsolete) To set (two or more things) at regular distances from each other; to space, to space out.
12. Often followed by from.
13. Often followed by from.

Con trattino come

dis‧tance

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈdɪst(ə)ns/

Etimologia

From Middle English distance, distaunce, destance (“disagreement, dispute; discrimination; armed conflict; hostility; trouble; space between two points; time interval”), from Anglo-Norman distance, distaunce, destance, Middle French distance, and Old French destance, destaunce, distaunce (“debate; difference, distinction; discord, quarrel; dispute; space between two points; time interval”) (modern French distance), and directly from their etymon Latin distantia (“difference, diversity; distance, remoteness; space between two points”) (whence also Late Latin distantia (“disagreement; discrepancy; gap, opening; time interval”)), from distāns (“being distant; standing apart”) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Distāns is the present active participle of distō (“to be distant; to stand apart; to differ”), from dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, asunder; in two’) + stō (“to stand”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* Middle Dutch distancie, distantie (modern Dutch distantie); Dutch afstand (“distance”, literally “off-stand, off-stance”)
* German Distanz; German Abstand
* Italian distanza
* Portuguese distância
* Spanish distancia

Frasi

The vast space stretched into the far distance .

Il vasto spazio si estendeva nella distanza lontana.