Distant vs Impression - What's the difference?
distant | impression |
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.
The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
An outward appearance.
(advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad. is shown once.
(painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
(engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.
