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==English==
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===Etymology===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*dus-|*dwi-|*steh₂-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|distance}}, {{m|enm|distaunce}}, {{m|enm|destance|t=disagreement, dispute; discrimination; armed conflict; hostility; trouble; space between two points; time interval}},<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=distaunce|pos=n|id=MED12119}}</ref> from {{der|en|xno|distance}}, {{m|xno|distaunce}}, {{m|xno|destance}}, {{der|en|frm|distance}}, and {{der|en|fro|destance}}, {{m|fro|destaunce}}, {{m|fro|distaunce|t=debate; difference, distinction; discord, quarrel; dispute; space between two points; time interval}} (modern {{cog|fr|distance}}), and directly from their {{glossary|etymon}} {{der|en|la|distantia|t=difference, diversity; distance, remoteness; space between two points}} (whence also {{cog|LL.|distantia|t=disagreement; discrepancy; gap, opening; time interval}}), from {{m|la|distāns|t=being distant; standing apart}} + {{m|la|-ia|pos={{glossary|suffix}} forming {{glossary|feminine}} {{glossary|abstract noun}}s}}.<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=n|id=8508487382|date=March 2024|nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=n}}</ref> {{m|la||Distāns}} is the {{glossary|present}} {{glossary|active}} {{glossary|participle}} of {{m|la|distō|t=to be distant; to stand apart; to differ}}, from {{m|la|dis-|pos={{glossary|prefix}} meaning ‘apart, asunder; in two’}} + {{m|la|stō|t=to stand}} (ultimately from {{der|en|ine-pro|*steh₂-|t=to stand (up)}}).

The {{glossary|verb}} is derived from the noun.<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=v|id=1975986022|date=July 2023|nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=v}}</ref>

{{rel-top|cognates}}
* {{cog|dum|distancie}}, {{m|dum|distantie}} (modern {{cog|nl|distantie}}); {{cog|nl|afstand|lit=off-stand, off-stance|t=distance}}
* {{cog|de|Distanz}}; {{cog|de|Abstand}}
* {{cog|it|distanza}}
* {{cog|pt|distância}}
* {{cog|es|distancia}}
{{rel-bottom}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈdɪst(ə)ns/|a=RP,GA}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-distance.ogg|a=GA}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪstəns|s=2}}
* {{hyphenation|en|dis|tance}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun|~}}

# {{lb|en|countable}}
## {{senseid|en|amount of space}} An [[amount#Noun|amount]] of [[space#Noun|space]] between [[point#Noun|points]] (often [[geographical#Adjective|geographical]] points), usually (but not [[necessarily]]) [[measure#Verb|measured]] along a [[straight line]].
##* {{RQ:Hakluyt Principall Navigations|author=w:Arthur Barlowe|chapter=The First Voyage Made to the Coastes of America, with Two Barkes, wherein were Captaines Master {{w|Philip Amadas}}, and Master Arthur Barlowe, who Discouered Part of the Countrey, Now Called Virginia, Anno 1584. Written by One of the Said Captaines, and Sent to Sir {{w|Walter Raleigh}}, Knight, at whose Charge and Direction, the Said Voyage was Set foorth.|year=1584|page=731|passage=[S]he {{...}} gaue vs into our boate our ſupper halfe dreſſed, pots, and all, and brought vs to our boates ſide, in which wee laye all night, remoouing the ſame a pretie '''diſtance''' from the ſhoare: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2 Q1|act=IV|scene=i|sig=G2|page=61|passage=The prince is here at hand, pleaſeth your Lordſhip / To meet his grace iuſt '''diſtance''' tvveene our armies.}}
##* {{RQ:Herbert Travaile|chapter=[Holy Port]|page=3|passage=The third of ''Aprill'', early in the morning, vvee had ſight of the ''Holy Port'' {{quote-gloss|[[Porto Santo]]}}, belonging to the ''Spaniard'', vvhich Ile at eight leagues '''diſtance''', gaue it ſelfe in this ſhape vnto vs.}}
##* {{RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress|page=4|passage=Novv by this time the Man vvas got a good '''diſtance''' from them; But hovvever they vvere reſolved to purſue him; vvhich they did and in little time they over-took him<!--. missing-->}}
##* {{RQ:Locke Human Understanding|chapter=Of Simple Modes; and First, of the Simple Modes of Space|sections=2–3|page=75|passage=[W]e get the ''Idea'' of Space, both by our Sight, and Touch; vvhich, I think, is ſo evident, that it vvould be as needleſs, to go to prove, that Men perceive by their Sight, a '''diſtance''' betvveen Bodies of different Colours, or betvveen the parts of the ſame Body; as that they ſee Colours themſelves: Nor is it leſs obvious, that they can do ſo in the Dark by Feeling and Touch. This Space conſidered barely in length betvveen any tvvo Beings, vvithout conſidering any thing elſe betvveen them, is called '''''diſtance''''': If conſidered in Length, Breadth, and Thickneſs, I think, it may be called ''Capacity'': {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Dampier New Voyage|chapter=VIII|page=225|passage=VVe kept at a good '''diſtance''' off ſhore, and ſavv no Land till the 14th day; but then, being in lat. 12 d. 50 m. the Volcan of ''Guatimala'' appeared in ſight.}}
##* {{RQ:Guardian 1713|issue=167|page=2|column=1|passage=''Helim'' had placed tvvo of his ovvn Mules at about a Mile's '''Diſtance''' from the black Temple, on the Spot vvhich they had agreed upon for their Rendezvous.}}
##* {{RQ:Shelley Queen Mab|note=I. Page 13|page=125|passage=[O]bservations on the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites have demonstrated that light takes up no more than 8′ 7″ in passing from the sun to the earth, a '''distance''' of 95,000,000 miles.}}
##* {{RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp|chapter=VIII|pages=53–54|pageref=54|passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, through the open screen, down the nave to the western door. {{...}} At a seemingly immense '''distance''' the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
##* {{RQ:Maugham Razor's Edge|section=iv|page=355|passage=I have never been to Dallas, but I suppose that, like other American cities I know, it has a residential district within easy motoring '''distance''' of the business section and the country club where the affluent have fine houses in large gardens with a handsome view of hill or dale from the living-room windows.}}
### {{lb|en|horse racing}} ''Chiefly in'' '''by a distance''': a space of more than 30 [[length#Noun|lengths]] (about 80 [[yard#Noun|yards]] or 7.3 [[metre#Noun|metres]]) between [[two#Numeral|two]] [[racehorse]]s [[finish#Verb|finishing]] a [[race#Noun|race]], [[use#Verb|used]] to [[describe]] the [[margin of victory]]; also {{lb|en|archaic}}, any space of 240 yards (about 219.5 [[metre#Noun|metres]]) on a [[racecourse]].
## ''Chiefly in'' '''from a distance''': a [[place#Noun|place]] which is [[far away#Adjective|far away]] or [[remote#Adjective|remote]]; specifically {{lb|en|especially|painting}}, a more remote [[part#Noun|part]] of a [[landscape#Noun|landscape]] or [[view#Noun|view]] as [[contrast#Verb|contrasted]] with the [[foreground#Noun|foreground]].
##* {{RQ:Berkeley Vision|section=LXXII|sectionname=Objection Answer'd|page=79|passage=VVhen from a '''Diſtance''' (I ſpeak vvith the Vulgar) vve behold great Objects, the Particles of the intermediate Air and Vapours, vvhich are themſelves unperceivable, do interrupt the Rays of Light, and thereby render the Appearance leſs Strong and Vivid; {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Cowper Poems|poem=The Progress of Error|page=51|passage=Vievv'd from a '''diſtance''', and vvith heedleſs eyes, / Folly and innocence are ſo alike, / The diff'rence, though eſſential, fails to ſtrike.}}
##* {{RQ:Irving Sketch Book|title=Rip Van Winkle|page=71|passage=As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a '''distance''', hallooing, "Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!"}}
##* {{RQ:Darwin et al Voyages|volume=III|chapter=I|page=8|passage=The rocks of St. Paul appear from a '''distance''' of a brilliantly white colour. This is partly owing to the dung of a vast multitude of seafowl, and partly to a coating of a glossy white substance, which is intimately united to the surface of the rocks.}}
##* {{RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol|pages=104–105|pageref=105|passage=And every man on board {{quote-gloss|the ship}}, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a '''distance''', and had known that they delighted to remember him.}}
##* {{RQ:Kingsley Hereward the Wake|volume=I|chapter=Prelude. Of the Fens.|page=18|passage=Dark and sad were those short autumn days, when all the '''distances''' were shut off, and the air choked with foul brown fog and drenching rains from off the eastern sea; {{...}}}}
##* {{quote-song|en|author=w:Julie Gold|artist=w:Nanci Griffith|title=w:From a Distance|album=w:Lone Star State of Mind|location=Universal City, Calif.|publisher=w:MCA Records|year='''1985''' (date written)|year_published=1987|oclc=15279458|passage=From a '''distance''', you look like my friend / Even though we are at war / From a '''distance''', I just cannot comprehend / What all this fighting's for // {{...}} // God is watching us / From a '''distance'''}}
## ''Chiefly with a [[modifying#Adjective|modifying]] [[word#Noun|word]]'': a [[measure#Noun|measure]] between two points or [[quantity|quantities]]; a [[difference#Noun|difference]], a [[variance]].
##: {{coi|en|angular '''distance'''&emsp;&emsp;&emsp; focal '''distance'''}}
##: {{ux|en|The '''distance''' between the lowest and next gear on my bicycle is annoying.}}
## An [[interval]] or length of [[time#Noun|time]] between [[event#Noun|events]].
##* {{RQ:Bentley Epistles|page=39|passage=VVe cannot tell, at this '''diſtance''' of time, vvhich Converſation vvas firſt, that vvith ''Phalaris'', or that vvith ''Leon''.}}
##* {{RQ:Prior Poems|year=1718|chapter=Postscript|sig=d|page=27|passage=I Muſt help my Preface by a Poſtſcript, to tell the Reader, that there is Ten Years '''Diſtance''' betvveen my vvriting the One and the Other; and that (vvhatever I thought then, and have ſomevvhere ſaid, that I vvould publiſh no more Poetry) He vvill find ſeveral Copies of Verſes ſcattered through this Edition, vvhich vvere not printed in the Firſt.}}
##* {{RQ:Foote Cozeners|page=64|passage=You vvill take this draught, three times a-day, at tvvo hours' '''diſtance''', firſt ſhaking it vvell.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:John Playfair|chapter=Preface|title=Elements of Geometry; Containing the First Six Books of Euclid, with Two Books on the Geometry of Solids.{{nb...|To which are Added, Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry.}}|location=Edinburgh|publisher={{...|Printed for}} Bell & Bradfute, and [[w:George Robinson (bookseller)|G[eorge] G[eorge] & J[ohn] Robinson]],{{nb...|London.}}|year=1795|page=iii|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9y7JI4_79RMC&pg=PR3|oclc=1325894617|passage=IT is a remarkable fact in the hiſtory of ſcience, that the oldeſt book of Elementary Geometry is ſtill conſidered as the beſt, and that the vvritings of [[w:Euclid|{{smallcaps|Euclid}}]], at the '''diſtance''' of tvvo thouſand years, continue to form the moſt approved introduction to the mathematical ſciences.}}
##* {{RQ:Macaulay History of England|volume=I|chapter=IV|page=455|passage=But the new sovereign's mind was haunted by an apprehension not to be mentioned, even at this '''distance''' of time, without shame and indignation.}}
## {{lb|en|figurative}} A [[separation]] in some way other than space or time.
##: {{ux|en|The friendship did not survive the row: they kept each other at a '''distance'''.}}
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Othello Q1|act=III|scene=iii|page=41|passage=He ſhall in ſtrangeſt, ſtand no farther off, / Then in a politique '''diſtance'''.}}
##* {{RQ:Burnet History|volume=I|pages=226–227|pageref=227|passage=The buſy men in ''Scotland'', being encouraged from ''Rotterdam'', vvent about the country, to try if any men of vveight vvould ſet themſelves at the head of their deſigns for an inſurrection. The Earl of ''Caſſilis'' {{quote-gloss|''i.e.'', {{w|John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassilis}}}} and ''Lockhart'' {{quote-gloss|{{w|William Lockhart of Lee}}}} vvere the tvvo perſons they reſolved to try. But they did it at ſo great a '''diſtance''', that, from the propoſition made to them, there vvas no danger of miſpriſion of treaſon.}}
## {{lb|en|obsolete}}
### {{synonym of|en|length|t=an [[extent#Noun|extent]] measured along the [[long#Adjective|longest]] [[dimension#Noun|dimension]] of an [[object#Noun|object]]}}
### {{lb|en|figurative}} A [[disagreement]], a [[dispute#Noun|dispute]]; also, an [[estrangement]].
###: {{synonyms|en|quarrel}}
### {{lb|en|music}} A difference in [[pitch#Noun|pitch]] between [[sound#Noun|sounds]]; an interval.
###* {{RQ:More Robinson Utopia|subchapter=Of Their Iourneyenge or Trauaylynge abrode, with Dyuers Other Matters Cunnyngly Reasoned & Wittilie Discussed|sig=&#91;M.vj.&#93;|verso=1|page=201|passage=[N]other perceaueth the concordaunt and diſcordante '''diſtaunces''' of ſoundes, and tunes {{...}}}}
# {{lb|en|uncountable}}
## The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
##: {{ux|en|The '''distance''' to Petersborough is thirty miles.}}
##: {{ux|en|From Moscow, the '''distance''' is relatively short to Saint Petersburg, relatively long to Novosibirsk, but even greater to Vladivostok.}}
### {{lb|en|boxing}}
#### The [[maximum#Adjective|maximum]] amount of space between a [[boxer]] and their [[opponent#Noun|opponent]] within which the boxer can [[punch#Verb|punch]] [[effectively]].
#### ''Often in'' '''[[go the distance]]''''','' '''[[last#Verb|last]] the distance''''', or'' '''[[stay the distance]]''': the [[scheduled#Adjective|scheduled]] duration of a [[bout#Noun|bout]].
### {{lb|en|fencing}} The amount of space between a [[fencer]] and their opponent, which the fencer [[try#Verb|tries]] to [[control#Verb|control]] in order to [[gain#Verb|gain]] an [[advantage#Noun|advantage]] over the opponent.
###* {{RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives|act=II|scene=i|page=45|column=1|passage={{quote-gloss|''William''}} ''Page''. I haue heard the French-man hath good skill in his Rapier. / [[w:Robert Shallow|{{quote-gloss|''Robert''}} ''Shal''&#91;''low''&#93;]]. Tut ſir: I could haue told you more: In theſe times you ſtand on '''diſtance''': your Paſſes, Stoccado's, and I knovv not vvhat: {{...}}}}
### {{lb|en|horse racing}} Originally, the space measured back from the [[winning post]] which a racehorse [[run#Verb|running]] in a [[heat#Noun|heat]] must [[reach#Verb|reach]] when the [[winner]] has [[cover#Verb|covered]] the [[whole#Adjective|whole]] [[course#Noun|course]], in order to run in a [[subsequent#Adjective|subsequent]] heat; also, the point on the racecourse that space away from the winning post; now, the point on a racecourse 240 yards from the winning post.
###* {{RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop|fablenumber=CCCXXXIX|fable=A Plain Horse Wins the Prize|page=296|passage=THere vvere a Great many Brave, Sightly ''Horſes'' vvith Rich Trappings that vvere brought out One day to the Courſe, and Only ''One Plain Nag'' in the Company that made ſport for All the reſt. But vvhen they came at laſt to the Tryal, ''This'' vvas the ''Horſe'' that ran the VVhole Field out of '''Diſtance''', and VVon the Race. / The MORAL. ''Our Senſes are No Competent Judges of the Excellencies of the Mind.''}}
### {{lb|en|military}} The amount of space between [[soldier#Noun|soldiers]] or [[cavalry]] [[rider]]s [[march#Verb|marching]] or [[stand#Verb|standing]] in a [[rank#Noun|rank]]; also, the amount of space between such ranks.
### {{lb|en|sport}} The [[complete#Adjective|complete]] length of a course over which a race is run.
## ''Chiefly preceded by'' '''[[the#Article|the]]''''', especially in'' '''[[into]]''' ''or'' '''[[in the distance]]''': the place that is far away or remote.
##* {{RQ:Shelley Queen Mab|page=21|passage=There was a little light / That twinkled in the misty '''distance''': {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol|page=48|passage=They walked along the road; Scrooge recognising every gate, and post, and tree; until a little market-town appeared in the '''distance''', with its bridge, its church, and winding river.}}
##* {{RQ:Tennyson Princess|page=68|passage=[W]e hear / A trumpet in the '''distance''' pealing news / Of better, and Hope, {{...}}}}
## The state of being [[separate#Verb|separated]] from something else, especially by a long [[way#Noun|way]]; the state of being far off or remote; [[farness]], [[remoteness]].
##* {{RQ:Pope Essay on Criticism|page=12|passage=Some Figures ''monſtrous'' and ''miſ-ſhap'd'' appear, / Conſider'd ''ſingly'', or beheld too ''near'', / VVhich, but ''proportion'd'' to their ''Light'', or ''Place'', / Due '''Diſtance''' ''reconciles'' to Form and Grace.}}
##* {{RQ:Addison Cato|scene=i|page=60|passage=[[w:Julius Caesar|{{quote-gloss|Julius}} ''Cæſar'']] is ſtill diſpoſed to give us Terms, / And vvaits at '''Diſtance''' 'till he hears from ''[[w:Cato the Younger|Cato]]''.}}
##* {{RQ:Campbell Pleasures of Hope|lines=5–8|page=3|passage=VVhy do thoſe cliffs of ſhadovvy tint appear / More ſvveet than all the landſcape ſmiling near?— / 'Tis '''Diſtance''' lends enchantment to the vievv, / And robes the mountain in its azure hue.}}
##* {{RQ:Shelley Posthumous Poems|poem=Letter to -|page=68|passage=Afar the Contadino's song is heard, / Rude, but made sweet by '''distance''';—{{...|nospace=1}}}}
##* {{RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol|page=5|passage=But what did Scrooge care? It was the very thing he liked. To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its '''distance''', was what the knowing ones call "nuts" to Scrooge.}}
## {{lb|en|figurative}}
### The [[entire#Adjective|entire]] amount of [[progress#Noun|progress]] to an [[objective#Noun|objective]].
###: {{ux|en|He had promised to perform this task, but did not go the '''distance'''.}}
### The state of remoteness or separation in some way other than space or time.
###: {{ux|en|the '''distance''' between a descendant and their ancestor}}
###: {{ux|en|We’re narrowing the '''distance''' between the two versions of the bill.}}
### The state of people not being [[close#Adjective|close]], [[friendly#Adjective|friendly]], or [[intimate#Adjective|intimate]] with each other; also, the state of people who were once close, friendly, or intimate with each other [[no longer]] being so; estrangement.
###: {{sense|state of not being close}} {{synonyms|en|alienation}}
###* {{RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets|poem=A Lover's Complaint|sig=L|page=217|passage=For ſhe vvas ſought by ſpirits of ritcheſt cote, / But kept cold '''diſtance''', and did thence remoue, / To ſpend her liuing in eternall loue.}}
###* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|book=VIII|lines=6–10|sig=Ee|verso=1|page=219|passage=[F]oul diſtruſt, and breach / Diſloyal on the part of Man, revolt, / And diſobedience: On the part of Heav'n / Novv alienated, '''diſtance''' and diſtaſte, / Anger and juſt rebuke, and judgement giv'n, {{...}}}}
###* {{RQ:Besant Ivory Gate|chapter=The Select Circle|page=46|passage=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.}}
### [[excessive|Excessive]] [[reserve#Noun|reserve]] or [[lack#Noun|lack]] of [[friendliness]] [[show#Verb|shown]] by a [[person#Noun|person]]; [[aloofness]], [[coldness]].
###: {{synonyms|en|standoffishness|unfriendliness|unsociableness}}
## {{lb|en|obsolete|figurative}}
### The rank to which an [[important]] person [[belong#Verb|belongs]].
###* {{RQ:Donne Poems|year=1639|poem=To the Countesse of Huntington|page=191|passage=[T]o your eye, / Theſe (Madame) that vvithout your '''diſtance''' lie, / Muſt either miſt, or nothing ſeeme to be, {{...}}}}
###* {{RQ:Fuller Church History|book=VIII|section=II|sectionname=To Mr. Thomas Bowyer of the Old Jury Merchant|subsection=33 (Of Those who Died in Prison)|page=23|passage=I am not ſatisfied in vvhat '''diſtance''' properly to place theſe perſons. Some, perchance, vvill account it too high, to rank them amongſt ''Martyrs''; and ſurely, I conceive it too lovv, to eſteem them but bare ''Confeſſours''.}}
### The [[state#Noun|state]] of disagreement or dispute between people; [[dissension]].
###* {{RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth|act=III|scene=i|page=140|column=1|passage=[[w:Macbeth (character)|''Macb''&#91;''eth''&#93;]]. Both of you knovv ''{{w|Banquo}}'' vvas your Enemie. / ''Murth''[''erer'']. True, my Lord. / ''Macb.'' So is he mine: and in ſuch bloody '''diſtance''', / That euery minute of his being, thruſts / Againſt my neer'ſt of Life: {{...}}}}
###* {{RQ:Bacon Essayes|chapter=Of Seditions and Troubles|page=88|passage=Generally, the Diuiding and Breaking of all Factions, and Combinations that are aduerſe to the State, and ſetting them at '''diſtance''', or at leaſt diſtruſt amongſt themſelues, is not one of the vvorſt ''Remedies''.}}
###* {{RQ:Pepys Diary|volume=VII|date=10 September 1667|page=107|passage=He tells me, among other things, that this business of the Chancellor do breed a kind of inward '''distance''' between the King and the Duke of York, and that it cannot be avoided; {{...}}}}
###* {{RQ:Fielding Amelia|volume=I|chapter=Mr. Booth Continues His Story.{{nb...|In this Chapter there are Some Passages that may Serve as a Kind of Touchstone, by which a Young Lady may Examine the Heart of Her Lover. I would Advise, therefore, that Every Lover be Obliged to Read It over in the Presence of His Mistress, and that She Carefully Watch His Emotions while He is Reading}}|pages=107–108|pageref=108|passage=[T]he true Reaſon vvhy I did not mention her before, vvas, that I apprehended there vvas ſome little '''Diſtance''' betvveen them, vvhich I hoped to have the Happineſs of accommodating.}}
### ''Often followed by'' '''[[to#Preposition|to]]''' ''or'' '''[[towards#Preposition|towards]]''': an [[attitude#Noun|attitude]] of remoteness or reserve which [[respect#Noun|respect]] [[require]]s; hence, [[ceremoniousness]].
###* {{RQ:Dryden Indian Emperour|page=4|passage=[T]hough you ſee / The King is kind, I hope your modeſty / VVill knovv, vvhat '''diſtance''' to the Crovvn is due.}}
###* {{RQ:Bentley Epistles|year=1699|page=287|passage=I vvill not ſift into them too minutely; for I'll obſerve the reſpect and '''diſtance''' that's due to him from his ''Scholar:'' {{...}}}}
###* {{RQ:Atterbury Lord Mayor|page=7|passage=''Third'' plain Reaſon of the Publick Honours done to the Magiſtrate is, that he may not only be ſecure, but had alſo in due Eſtimation and Reverence by all thoſe vvho are ſubject to him. 'Tis by Reſpect and '''Diſtance''' that Authority is upheld; and 'tis by Outvvard Marks and Enſigns of Honour that Reſpect is ſecured; eſpecially from Vulgar Minds, vvhich do not enter into the true Reaſons of Things, but are govern'd by Appearances.}}
###* {{RQ:Fielding Joseph Andrews|volume=I|chapter=What Passed betwee the Lady and Mrs. Slipslop, in which We Prophesy there are Some Strokes which Every One will Not Truly Comprehend at the First Reading|page=46|passage=''Slipſlop'', vvho had preſerved hitherto a '''Diſtance''' to her Lady, {{...}} anſvvered her Miſtreſs very pertly, {{...}}}}
###* {{RQ:Scott Rob Roy|volume=I|pages=128–129|pageref=129|passage=It is not to be thought that, however strange and uncommon I might think her liberal and unreserved communications, a young man of two-and-twenty was likely to be severely critical on a beautiful girl of eighteen, for not observing a proper '''distance''' towards him; {{...}}}}

====Alternative forms====
* {{alter|en|distaunce}} {{qualifier|obsolete}}

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|biodistance|demidistance|distanceless|ecodistance|endistancement|interdistance|isodistance|microdistance|multidistance|pseudodistance|ultradistance
|action at a distance
|aesthetic distance
|angular distance
|at a distance
|automatic distance control
|Bhattacharyya distance
|braking distance
|by some distance
|[[cartesian distance]], [[Cartesian distance]]
|[[Chebyshev distance]], [[Tchebychev distance]]
|chessboard distance
|creepage distance
|critical distance
|distance education
|distance fog
|distance formula
|distance function
|distance learner
|distance learning
|distanceless
|distancelessness
|distance line
|distanceometer
|distancer
|distance teaching
|distance vector
|distance vision
|down and distance
|draw distance
|edit distance
|effort distance
|endistance
|endistancement
|equidistance
|Euclidean distance
|focal distance
|from a distance
|go the distance
|Hamming distance
|Hausdorff distance
|Hellinger distance
|horizon distance
|Hubble distance
|interarch distance
|interplant distance
|in the distance
|keep at a distance
|keep one's distance
|keyboard distance
|Levenshtein distance
|linguistic distance
|long-distance
|long-distance relationship
|luminosity distance
|lunar distance
|Manhattan distance
|mean distance between failure
|[[middle-distance]], [[middle distance]]
|polar distance
|power distance
|pseudodistance
|resistance distance
|second distance
|security distance
|self-distance
|short-distance
|skip distance
|slant distance
|{{l|en|social distance|pos=noun}}
|spitting distance
|spooky action at a distance
|stay the distance
|stopping distance
|striking distance
|string distance
|taxicab distance
|[[taxi-distance]], [[taxi distance]]
|thinking distance
|time-distance
|walking distance
|zenith distance
}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|distant}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|(''countable, uncountable'') amount of space between points}}
* Afrikaans: {{t+|af|afstand}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|distancë|f}}, {{t+|sq|largesë|f}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|بُعْد|m}}, {{t|ar|مَسَافَة|f}}
*: Egyptian Arabic: {{t|arz|بعد|m|tr=buʕd}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|հեռավորություն}}
* Assamese: {{t|as|দূৰৈ}}, {{t|as|দূৰতা}}, {{t|as|দূৰত্ব}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|ara}}, {{t+|az|məsafə}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|ара}}
* Basque: {{t|eu|distantzia}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|дыста́нцыя|f}}, {{t|be|адле́гласць|f}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|দূরত্ব}}
* Breton: {{t+|br|pellder|m}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|разстоя́ние|n}}, {{t+|bg|диста́нция|f}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|အကွာအဝေး}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|distància}}
* Central Melanau: {{t|mel|gai}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|距離}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|距離}}, {{t+|cmn|距}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|vzdálenost|f}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|afstand|c}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|afstand|m}}, {{t+|nl|eind|n}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|distanco}}, {{t|eo|malproksimo}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|kaugus}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|etäisyys}}, {{t+|fi|matka}}, {{t+|fi|välimatka}}
* French: {{t+|fr|distance|f}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|distancia|f}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|დაშორება}}, {{t|ka|მანძილი}}, {{t|ka|სიშორე}}, {{t|ka|დისტანცია}}
* German: {{t+|de|Distanz|f}}, {{t+|de|Abstand|m}}, {{t+|de|Entfernung|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|απομάκρυνση}}, {{t+|el|απόσταση|f}}, {{t+|el|διάστημα}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ἀπόστασις|f}}
* Haitian Creole: {{t|ht|distans}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|מֶרְחָק|m|tr=merkhák}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|दूरी|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|táv}}, {{t+|hu|távolság}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|fjarlægð|f}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|jarak}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|etähäisys}}, {{t|izh|matka}}
* Interlingua: {{t+|ia|distantia}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|achar|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|distanza|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|距離|tr=きょり, kyori}}
* Javanese: {{t+|jv|elet}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|арақашықтық}}, {{t|kk|қашықтық}}, {{t|kk|ара}}
* Khmer: {{t+|km|ចម្ងាយ}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|거리(距離)}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t+|ky|аралык}}, {{t+|ky|ара}}
* Ladino: {{t|lad|distansya}}, {{t|lad|lungure}} {{qualifier|Monastir}}
* Lao: {{t|lo|ໄລຍະຫ່າງ}}, {{t|lo|ຊົ່ວຣະຍະ}}
* Latin: {{t|la|distantia}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|atstatums|m}}, {{t|lv|attālums|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|distancija|f}}, {{t|lt|atstumas|m}}, {{t|lt|nuotolis|m}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|диста́нца|f}}, {{t|mk|дале́чина|f}}, {{t|mk|оддале́ченост|f}}, {{t|mk|растоја́ние|n}}, {{t|mk|раздале́ченост|f}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|jarak}}
* Malayalam: {{t+|ml|അകലം}}, {{t+|ml|ദൂരം}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|mataratanga}}, {{t|mi|nehe}}
* Mongolian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t+|mn|зай}}
* Nahuatl: {{t|nah|kalkayotl}}
* North Frisian: {{t|frr|fiirense|f}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|avstand|m}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|avstand|m}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|distància|f}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|feornes|f}}
* Pashto: {{t+|ps|واټن|m}}
* Persian:
*: Dari: {{t+|prs|دُورِی}}, {{t+|prs|فَاصِلَه}}, {{t+|prs|فَاصْلَه}}, {{t+|prs|مَسَافَت}}
*: Iranian Persian: {{t+|fa-ira|دوری}}, {{t+|fa-ira|فَاصِلِه}}, {{t+|fa-ira|مَسافَت}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|dystans|m}}, {{t+|pl|droga|f}}, {{t+|pl|odległość|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|distância|f}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|distanță|f}}, {{t+|ro|depărtare|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|расстоя́ние|n}}, {{t+|ru|диста́нция|f}}, {{t+|ru|отдалённость|f}}
* Sanskrit: {{t+|sa|दूरम्|n}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|eadar-dhealachadh|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|даљѝна|f}}, {{t|sh|у̀да̄љено̄ст|f}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|daljìna|f}}, {{t+|sh|ùdāljenōst|f}}
* Shan: {{t+|shn|ၶၢဝ်းတၢင်း}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|vzdialenosť|f}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|oddaljenost|f}}, {{t|sl|razdalja|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|distancia|f}}
* Sundanese: {{t|su|anggang}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|umbali}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|distans|c}}, {{t+|sv|avstånd|n}}
* Tagalog: {{t+|tl|agwat}}
* Tajik: {{t|tg|масофа}}, {{t+|tg|дурӣ}}, {{t|tg|фосила}}, {{t+|tg|байн}}
* Tamil: {{t-needed|ta}}
* Tatar: {{t+|tt|ара}}
* Thai: {{t|th|ระยะห่าง}}, {{t+|th|ระยะทาง}}
* Tibetan: {{t|bo|ལམ་ཐག}}, {{t|bo|རྒྱང་ཐག}}, {{t|bo|ཐག}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|ara}}, {{t+|tr|mesafe}}
* Turkmen: {{t+|tk|aralyk}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|диста́нція|f}}, {{t|uk|ві́ддаль|f}}, {{t|uk|відда́лення|n}}, {{t+|uk|ві́дстань|f}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|دُوری|f}}, {{t|ur|فاصِلَہ|m}}, {{t|ur|فاصَلَہ|m}}, {{t|ur|مَسافَت|f}}
* Uyghur: {{t|ug|ئارىلىق}}, {{t|ug|مۇساپە}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|masofa}}, {{t+|uz|oraliq}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|khoảng cách}}
* Zulu: {{t|zu|ibanga|c5|c6}}, {{t|zu|iduze|c5|c6}}, {{t|zu|ubude|c14}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|space of more than 30 lengths between two racehorses finishing a race; any space of 240 yards on a racecourse}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[pitkä]] [[ero]]}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|place which is far away or remote; more remote part of a landscape or view as contrasted with the foreground}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[etäinen]] [[paikka]]}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|oddal|m}}, {{t+|pl|dal|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top-also|measure between two points or quantities|difference|variance}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|ero}}, {{t+|fi|rako}}, {{t+|fi|väli}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|interval or length of time between events}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|aikaero}}, {{t|fi|[[ajallinen]] [[etäisyys]]}}, {{t+|fi|ero}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|अंतराल|m}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|separation in some way other than space or time}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|ero}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|(''boxing'') maximum amount of space between a boxer and their opponent within which the boxer can punch effectively}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|etäisyys}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|(''boxing'') scheduled duration of a bout}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|erä}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|amount of space between a fencer and their opponent}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|etäisyys}}, {{t+|fi|väli}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|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 a subsequent heat; point on the racecourse that space away from the winning post; point on racecourse 240 yards from the winning post}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|väli}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|amount of space between soldiers or cavalry riders marching or standing in a rank; amount of space between such ranks}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|väli}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|complete length of a course over which a race is run}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|matka}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|place that is far away or remote}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|отдалеченост|f}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|llunyania|f}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|verte|f}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|foro}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kaukaisuus}}, {{t+|fi|kaukaa}} {{qualifier|from a distance}}
* Galician: {{t|gl|lonxanía|f}}, {{t+|gl|distancia|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Ferne|f}}, {{t+|de|Weite|f}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|दूर}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|messzeség}}, {{t+|hu|távolság}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|遠方|tr=えんぽう, enpō}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|oddal|m}}, {{t+|pl|dal|m}}
* Sorbian:
*: Lower Sorbian: {{t|dsb|dalina|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|distancia|f}}, {{t+|es|lejanía|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|state of being separated from something else, especially by a long way; state of being far off or remote}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|etäisyys}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|entire amount of progress to an objective}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|työ}} {{qualifier|work, as in do the work}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|state of remoteness or separation in some way other than space or time}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|etäisyys}}, {{t+|fi|ero}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|state of people not being close, friendly, or intimate with each other|alienation}}
{{trans-see|state of people who were once close, friendly, or intimate with each other no longer being so|estrangement}}
{{trans-see|excessive reserve or lack of friendliness shown by a person|aloofness|coldness}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}}
## ''Often followed by'' '''[[from]]''': to [[set#Verb|set]] (someone or something) at a [[distance#Noun|distance]] ''(noun {{senseno|en|amount of space}})'' from someone or something else.
##* {{RQ:Fuller Iniured Innocence|part=II|page=6|passage=If therefore the ''Interpoſition'' of ''Gloceſterſhire'' '''diſtanceth''' ''VVorceſterſhire'' from ''confining'' on the ''VVeſt-Saxons'', the ''Animadvertor'' ought to have vented his diſpleaſure not on ''Me'', but on ''{{w|Bede}}'', and [[w:Henry of Huntingdon|{{quote-gloss|Henry of}} ''Huntington'']], vvhoſe vvords I exactly tranſlated.}}
##* {{RQ:Fuller Worthies of England|part=2|chapter=Lancashire|page=106|passage=The faireſt {{quote-gloss|oxen}} in ''England'' are bred (or if you vvill, made) in this County, vvith goodly heads, the Tips of vvhoſe horns are ſometimes '''diſtanced''' ''five'' foot aſunder.}}
##* {{RQ:Emerson Conduct of Life|page=22|passage=It {{quote-gloss|an insight}} '''distances''' those who share it, from those who share it not.}}
## To [[cause#Verb|cause]] (a [[place#Noun|place]], a [[thing]], etc.) to [[seem]] [[distant]], or {{lb|en|figurative}} [[unfamiliar#Adjective|unfamiliar]].
##* {{RQ:Du Fresnoy Dryden Painting|chapter=Observations|page=170|passage=That vvhich gives the Relievo to a Bovvl, (may ſome ſay to me) is the quick Light, or the vvhite, vvhich appears to be on the ſide, vvhich is neareſt to us, and the black by conſequence '''diſtances''' the Object: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Lowell Fireside Travels|page=191|passage=Below you, where the valley widens greenly toward other mountains, which the ripe Italian air '''distances''' with a bloom like that on unplucked grapes, are more arches, ossified arteries of what was once the heart of the world.}}
## To [[leave behind]] (someone or something [[move#Verb|moving]] in the same [[direction]]; specifically, other [[competitor]]s in a [[race#Noun|race]]) some distance away; to [[outpace]], to [[outstrip]].
##: {{synonyms|en|outdistance|outgallop<q:chiefly of a horse or its rider>|outrun}}
##* {{RQ:Longfellow Golden Legend|page=238|passage=Our fleeter steeds have '''distanced''' our attendants; / They lag behind us with a slower pace; / We will await them under the green pendants / Of the great willows in this shady place.}}
##* {{RQ:Craddock Stranger People's Country|chapter=V|page=120|passage=He heard only here and there the ecstatic burst of a mocking-bird's wonderful roulades. Then the horse, with muscles as strong as steel, '''distanced''' the sound.}}
## {{lb|en|figurative}}
### To [[keep#Verb|keep]] (someone) [[emotionally]] or [[socially]] [[apart]] from another [[person#Noun|person]] or people.
### To [[exceed]] or [[surpass]] (someone, such as a [[peer#Noun|peer]] or [[rival#Noun|rival]]); to [[outdo]], to outstrip.
### {{lb|en|reflexive}} To keep (oneself) away from someone or something, especially because one does not [[want#Verb|want]] to be [[associate#Verb|associated]] with that person or thing.
###: {{ux|en|He '''distanced''' himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.}}
###* {{quote-book|en|author=Daniel Burston|title={{lang|grc|ΈΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΣΤΗΣ ἐτι ΈΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΖΟΜΕΝΟΣ}} [ÉUAGGELISTES eti ÉUAGGELIZOMENOS] or, The Evangelist yet Evangelizing.{{nb...|Submitted to the Judgment and Censure of the Churches of England and Ireland.}}|location=Dublin|publisher={{...|Printed by}} John Crook,{{nb...|printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie}}, and are to be sold by Samuel Dancer,{{nb...|bookseller in Castlestreet}}|year=1662|page=41|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6X5mAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA41|oclc=The Evangelist yet Evangelizing|passage=[S]ince the Church hath, and ought to have a Government, it muſt not only be inoffenſive, but moſt proper, to call it an Hierarchy, or holy Government; {{...}} Beſides, [[w:John Calvin|{{quote-gloss|John}} C''alvin'']] admitting of ''ſacrum regimen'' {{quote-gloss|holy government}}, over nicely '''diſtanceth''' himſelf from thoſe vvho call it ''Hierarchy'', for he ſaith the ſame in Latin, vvhich they do in Greek; {{...}}}}
###* {{quote-book|en|author=Abby Green|chapter=Prologue|title=A Christmas Bride for the King|location=London|publisher=w:Mills & Boon|year=2017|page=7|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/christmasbridefo0000gree_n2i9/page/7/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-263-92494-7|passage=[H]e'd built his life around an independence he'd cultivated as far back as he could remember. '''Distancing''' himself from his own family and the heavy legacy of his birth. '''Distancing''' himself from painful memories. '''Distancing''' himself from emotional entanglements or investment, which could only lead to unbearable heartbreak.}}
###* {{quote-journal|en|author=Philip Haigh|title=TPE Must Choose the Right Route to a Brighter Future|journal=[[w:Rail (magazine)|Rail]]|location=Peterborough, Cambridgeshire|publisher=[[w:Bauer Media Group|Bauer Media]]|date=1 November 2023|issue=995|page=57|issn=0953-4563|oclc=999467860|passage=But Gisby '''distances''' himself from calling TPE an inter-city operator.}}
## {{lb|en|chiefly|US|horse racing|archaic}} Of a [[racehorse]]: to [[beat#Verb|beat]] (another [[horse#Noun|horse]]) by a certain distance; also {{lb|en|passive voice}}, to cause (a horse) to be [[disqualify|disqualified]] by beating it by a certain distance.
##* {{RQ:Guardian 1713|issue=6|page=2|column=1|passage=[H]e is of Opinion it is inhuman, that Animals ſhould be put upon their utmoſt Strength and Metal for our Diverſion only. Hovvever, not to be particular, he puts in for the Queen's Plate every Year, vvith Orders to his Rider never to vvin or be '''diſtanced'''; {{...}}}}
## {{lb|en|obsolete}}
### To [[cover#Verb|cover]] the [[entire#Adjective|entire]] distance to (something).
###* {{RQ:More Psychodia|chapter=Psychathanasia|book=3|canto=1|stanza=21|page=61|passage=The ſunne and all the ſtarres that do appear / She {{quote-gloss|Psyche}} feels them in herſelf, can '''diſtance''' all, / For ſhe is at each one purely preſentiall.}}
### To [[depart#Verb|depart]] from (a place); to [[leave#Verb|leave]] (a place) behind.
###* {{quote-book|en|author=&#91;{{w|Elizabeth Charles}}&#93;|chapter=VII|title=Against the Stream: The Story of an Heroic Age in England{{nb...|by the Author of “The Schonberg-Cotta Family”: In Three Vols.}}|location=London|publisher=Strahan & Co.{{nb...|56, Ludgate Hill, London}}|year=1873|volume=I|page=139|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/againststreamsto01char/page/139/mode/1up|oclc=52997726|passage=[W]e heard the joyous voices sound louder and freer as they '''distanced''' the solemn precincts, scattering frolic and music through the town as they separated to their different homes.}}
### To [[indicate]] or [[measure#Verb|measure]] the distance to (a place).
###* {{RQ:Fuller Palestine|chapter=How the Hebrews Measured Places. Of Their Cubits, Furlongs, Miles and Sabbath-days-journeys.|paragraph=1|page=40|passage=THe Hebrevvs '''diſtanced''' their places by ſeverall meaſures, ſome arbitrary, caſuall, and uncertain; others certain, as reduced to a conſtant ſtandard. Of the former vvas their meaſuring of land by paces, for vve read, vvhen ''{{w|David}}'' ſolemnly brought the Ark into ''Jeruſalem'', ''vvhen he had gone ſix paces he offered oxen and fatlings''.}}
### To set ([[two#Numeral|two]] or more things) at [[regular#Adjective|regular]] distances from each other; to [[space#Verb|space]], to [[space out]].
###* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Giacomo Leoni|chapter=Of the Corinthian Order|translator=Nicholas Du Bois|title=The Architecture of [[w:Andrea Palladio|A[ndrea] Palladio]];{{nb...|in Four Books. Containing, a Short Treatise of the Five Orders, and the Most Necessary Observations Concerning All Sorts of Building, as also the Different Construction of Private and Publick Houses, High-ways, Bridges, Market-places, Xystes, and Temples, with Their Plans, Sections, and Upright. To which are Added Several Notes and Observations Made by Inigo Jones, Never Printed before. Revis’d, Design’d, and Publish’d by Giacomo Leoni, a Venetian; Architect to His Most Serene Highness, the Elector Palatine. Translated from the Italian Original.}}|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed by}} John Watts, for the author|year=1715|page=30|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-architecture-of-a-p_palladio-andrea_1715_1/page/n67/mode/1up|oclc=1326263064|passage=In the deſign of a ''Colonnade'', or ſingle Columns, the ''Inter-columns'' are tvvo diameters, as in the ''Portico'' of St. ''Maria Rotunda'' at ''Rome''; and this manner of '''''diſtancing''''' the Columns is, by ''{{w|Vitruvius}}'', call'd ''Syſtylos''.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|reflexive}} ''Often followed by'' '''from'''.
## To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something.
## {{lb|en|figurative}} To keep oneself emotionally or socially apart from another person or people; to [[keep one's distance]].
##* {{quote-book|en|author=David S. Freeman|chapter=The Major Systems Involved in the Family Therapy Process|title=Multigenerational Family Therapy|location=Binghamton, N.Y.&#59; London|publisher=[[w:Haworth Press|The Haworth Press]]|year=1992|page=66|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/multigenerationa0000free/page/66/mode/1up|isbn=978-1-56024-125-6|passage=When a family member goes outside of the family to deal with a problem, he or she '''distances''' from the family. The family therapist offers the family the opportunity to deal with problems in a way that will allow them to deepen their connections with each other. The therapist will not be able to accomplish this goal if various family members go outside the family to resolve their problems.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Goran Arbanas|chapter=Anxiety and Somatoform Disorders|editors=Michal Lew-Starowicz; Annamaria Giraldi; Tillman H. C. Krüger|title=Psychiatry and Sexual Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practitioners|location=Cham, Zug, Switzerland|publisher=w:Springer Nature|year=2021|page=272|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3PD6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA272|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-52298-8|isbn=978-3-030-52297-1|passage=Also, due to irritability, tension, startle reactions, and feelings of no future love and enjoyment, the partners '''distance''' one from another and stop doing things together. {{...}} The therapeutic relationship with PTSD {{quote-gloss|post-traumatic stress disorder}} patients is very difficult at the beginning of the therapy as these patients will not allow the therapist "to come close to them"—for the same reason as they '''distance''' from their family members and partners (the therapist cannot understand them as she/he has not experienced the same thing they did and they are not good enough to be helped; they believe they destroy every person they come into contact with).}}

====Conjugation====
{{en-conj|old=1|stem=distanc}}

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|distancingly
|undistanced
|{{l|en|distanced|pos=adjective}}
|distancer
|{{l|en|distancing|pos=adjective, noun}}
|outdistance
|role-distance
|{{l|en|social distance|pos=verb}}, {{l|en|socially distance}}
}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|to set (someone or something) at a distance from someone or something else}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[sijoittaa]] [[erilleen]]}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to cause (a place, a thing, etc.) to seem distant, or unfamiliar}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|etäännyttää}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|to leave behind (someone or something moving in the same direction) some distance away|outpace|outstrip}}

{{trans-top|to keep (someone) emotionally or socially apart from another person or people}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[pitää]] [[ero|erossa]]}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|to exceed or surpass (someone)|exceed|outdo|outstrip|surpass}}

{{trans-top|to keep (oneself) away from someone or something, especially because one does not want to be associated with that person or thing}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[ottaa]] [[etäisyys|etäisyyttä]]}}, {{t|fi|[[pitää]] [[etäisyys|etäisyyttä]]}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|of a racehorse: to beat (another horse) by a certain distance; to cause (a horse) to be disqualified by beating it by a certain distance}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[voittaa]] ''+ the distance in adessive case''}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|بَعَّدَ}}
* Breton: {{t-check|br|[[mont]] [[diouzh]]}}, {{t-check|br|[[pellaat]] [[diouzh]]}}<!--check if idiom, unlink if yes-->
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|дистанцирам се}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|[[distanciar]]-se}}, {{t|ca|[[allunyar]]-se}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|verwijderen}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|etäännyttää}}, {{t+|fi|etääntyä}}, {{t|fi|ottaa etäisyyttä}}, {{t|fi|ottaa välimatkaa}}, {{t+|fi|pestä kätensä}}, {{t|fi|tehdä eroa}}
* French: {{t+check|fr|éloigner}}, {{t+check|fr|s'éloigner}}
* German: {{t+|de|entfernen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|απομακρύνομαι}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|התרחק|tr=hitrakhék}}
* Hindi: {{t|hi|दूर हटना}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|menjauhi}}
* Interlingua: {{t|ia|distantiar}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|distanziare}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|се дистанци́ра}}, {{t|mk|се оддалечува}}, {{t|mk|се раздалечува}}
* Malayalam: {{t+|ml|അകലുക}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|[[dystansować]] [[się]]|impf}}, {{t|pl|[[zdystansować]] [[się]]|pf}}, {{t|pl|[[oddalać]] [[się]]|impf}}, {{t|pl|[[oddalić]] [[się]]|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|[[distanciar]]-[[se]]}}, {{t|pt|[[afastar]]-[[se]]}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|distanța}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|отдаля́ть}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|[[distanciar]]se}}, {{t|es|[[alejar]]se}}
* Sundanese: {{t|su|anggang}}
* Swedish: {{t|sv|[[distansera]] sig}}, {{t|sv|[[avlägsna]] sig}}
* Telugu: {{t|te|దూరం చేసుకొను}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to keep oneself emotionally or socially apart from another person or people}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[pitää]] [[etäisyys|etäisyyttä]]}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===References===
<references/>

===Further reading===
* {{pedia}}
* {{pedia|distance (disambiguation)}}
* {{R:Century 1911}}
* {{R:Webster 1913}}
* {{R:OneLook}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=acdeinst|danciest}}

{{C|en|Physical quantities}}

==Danish==

===Etymology===
From {{bor|da|fr|distance}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|da|/distanɡsə/|[d̥iˈsd̥ɑŋsə]}}

===Noun===
{{da-noun|n|r}}

# {{l|en|distance}}
# [[detachment]]

====Declension====
{{da-decl|n|r}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:DDO}}

==Esperanto==

===Etymology===
From {{suffix|eo|distanco|e}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{eo-IPA|di|stance}}

===Adverb===
{{eo-head}}

# To or at a great distance.
#: ''rigardi pentraĵon '''distance'''''.

==French==

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}
* {{rhymes|fr|ɑ̃s|s=2}}
* {{audio|fr|Fr-distance.ogg}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|fr|ine-pro|*dus-|*dwi-|*steh₂-}}
From {{inh|fr|frm|distance}}, from {{inh|fr|fro|destance}}, {{m|fro|destaunce}}, {{m|fro|distaunce|t=debate; difference, distinction; discord, quarrel; dispute; space between two points; time interval}}, {{bor+|fr|la|distantia|t=difference, diversity; distance, remoteness; space between two points|nocap=1}}.

====Noun====
{{fr-noun|f}}

# {{l|en|distance}} {{gloss|literal physical distance}}
#: {{ux|fr|On se tient à '''distance''' de deux kilomètres l'un de l'autre.|We stand at a '''distance''' of two kilometers from each other.}}
# {{l|en|distance}} {{lb|fr|metaphoric or figurative}}
#: {{ux|fr|Il convient de la tenir à une certaine '''distance'''.|It's suitable to maintain a certain '''distance'''.}}
#* {{quote-text|fr|year=2014|author=Jean-Claude Bernardon|title=Résolution de conflits|passage=Votre langage doit vous permettre de maintenir une bonne '''distance''' de sécurité, être un peu plus poli et détaché que nécessaire est un avantage.|t=Your language must allow you to maintain a good safe '''distance''', to be a little more polite and detached than necessary is an advantage. }}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col3|fr
|à distance
|de distance en distance
|distance de freinage
|distance focale
|distance matrimoniale
|prendre de la distance
|prendre ses distances
|tenir la distance
|toutes distances gardées
}}

=====Related terms=====
* {{l|fr|distant}}

=====Descendants=====
* {{desc|gcf|distans}}
* {{desc|ht|distans}}
* {{desctree|ru|диста́нция|bor=1}}

===Etymology 2===
{{nonlemma}}

====Verb====
{{head|fr|verb form}}

# {{inflection of|fr|distancer||1//3|s|pres|ind//sub|;|2|s|imp}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}

==Latvian==

===Noun===
{{lv-noun|f|5}}

# [[distance#English|distance]]
# [[interval]]
# [[railway division]]

====Declension====
{{lv-decl-noun|distan|e|5th||c|č|extrawidth=-60}}

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