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Distanced vs Remote - What's the difference?

distanced | remote |

As verbs the difference between distanced and remote

is that distanced is (distance) while remote is (computing) to connect to a computer from a remote location.

As an adjective remote is

at a distance; disconnected.

As a noun remote is

short for remote control.

distanced

English

Verb

(head)
  • (distance)

  • distance

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Noun

  • (lb) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
  • :
  • *, chapter=5
  • , title= 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,
  • 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
  • * (1777-1844)
  • *:'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.
  • Synonyms

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    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 distance

    Verb

  • 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.

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    remote

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • At a distance; disconnected.
  • A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.
  • Distant or otherwise inaccessible.
  • After his fall from the emperor's favor, the general was posted to a remote outpost.
  • Unlikely.
  • There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes.
  • Emotionally detached.
  • After her mother's death, my friend grew remote for a time while she dealt with her grief.

    Synonyms

    * (at a distance ): disconnected, hands-free, wireless * (distant or otherwise inaccessible ): far, hidden, outlying * (unlikely ): abysmal, faint, improbable, poor * (emotionally detached ): aloof, dispassionate, distant, removed, withdrawn

    Antonyms

    * (at a distance ): attached, connected, contiguous, direct * (distant or otherwise inaccessible ): close, near, proximate * (unlikely ): likely, probable, reasonable, sure * (emotionally detached ): companionable, intimate, involved, passionate

    Derived terms

    * remote control * remoteness * remote surgery

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Short for remote control.
  • I hate it when my uncle comes over to visit; he always sits in the best chair and hogs the remote .
  • (broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
  • Synonyms

    * (remote control) clicker

    Verb

    (remot)
  • (computing) To connect to a computer from a remote location.
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