Distant vs Fairway - What's the difference?
distant | fairway |
Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
(golf) the area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short
any tract of land free from obstacles
(Military) A channel either from offshore, in a river, or in a harbor that has enough depth to accommodate the draft of large vessels.(JP 4-01.6)
(nautical) a navigable channel in a harbour, offshore etc; the usual course taken by vessels in such places.
*1899 , Joseph Conrad,
*:Lights of ships moved in the fairway —a great stir of lights going up and going down.