Stance vs Distance - What's the difference?
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The manner, posture, or pose in which one stands.
One’s opinion or point of view.
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(Scotland) A station; a position; a site; a stopping place for buses at a bus station
(obsolete) A stanza.
(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.
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As nouns the difference between stance and distance
is that stance is the manner, posture, or pose in which one stands while distance is the amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.As a verb distance is
to move away (from) someone or something.stance
English
(wikipedia stance)Noun
(en noun)- The fencer’s stance showed he was ready to begin.
- I don’t agree with your stance on gun control.
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Synonyms
* opinion * position * standExternal links
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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.