Different vs Distance - What's the difference?
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Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
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, title= Various, assorted, diverse.
* 2006 , Delbert S. Elliott et al., Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521863575, page 19:
Distinct, separate; (used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity).
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, title= Unlike most others; unusual.
(lb) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
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, title= Length or interval of time.
*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
*:ten years' distance between one and the other
*(John Playfair) (1748-1819)
*: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.
*(Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
*:easily managed from a distance
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*:'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:[He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato.
Remoteness in succession or relation.
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A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
*(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
*:the horse that ran the whole field out of distance
The entire amount of progress to an objective.
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A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
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*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:Setting them [factions] at distance , or at least distrust amongst themselves.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:On the part of Heaven, / Now alienated, distance and distaste.
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*: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.
The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:I hope your modesty / Will know what distance to the crown is due.
*(Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
*:'Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld.
To move away (from) someone or something.
To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 71:
As a verb different
is .different
English
(wikipedia different)Adjective
(en adjective)- Enter the American tourist. He thinks of himself as a good guy but when he looks in the mirror to shave this good guy he has to admit that "well, other people are different from me and I don't really like them." This makes him feel guilty toward other people.
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
- In any case, poor black respondents living in high-poverty neighborhoods are most likely to view their neighborhood as a single block or block group and to use this definition consistently when asked about different neighborhood characteristics and activities.
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
Usage notes
* (not the same) Depending on dialect, time period, and register, the adjective may be construed with one of the prepositions (from), (to), and (than), or with the subordinating conjunction (than).- Pleasure is different from'''/'''than'''/'''to''' happiness.''
- ''It's different '''than''' ''(or '''''from what'' )'' I expected.
Synonyms
* distinctAntonyms
* alike * identical * same * similar * undifferentDerived terms
* different as chalk and cheese * different drummer * different ideal * different light * different strokes * horse of a different color * march to the beat of a different drumExternal links
* *distance
English
(wikipedia distance)Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* aesthetic distance * angular distance * automatic distance control * braking distance * Cartesian distance * critical distance * distance formula * distance learning * distance vision * distancer * edit distance * effort distance * Euclidean distance * focal distance * go the distance * Hamming distance * horizon distance * interarch distance * interplant distance * keep at a distance * keep one's distance * Levenshtein distance * long-distance * luminosity distance * mean distance between failure * middle-distance * polar distance * resistance distance * self-distance * short-distance * skip distance * social distance * spitting distance * striking distance * string distance * taxicab distance * walking distance * zenith distanceVerb
- He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.
- Then the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound.