2. Verb. Third person singular simple present of ''to distance'' (oneself). ¹
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Definition of Distances
1. distance [v] - See also: distance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distances
Literary usage of Distances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1830)
"On the Extension of Hade's Empirical Law of the distances of the Planets from
the Sun, to the distances of tlie Satellites from their respective Primaries. ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The considerable variation of 0.5 À in the iron-iron distances observed in ...
The Fe-Fe distances in the nitrogen-bridged complexes are the shortest ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"The stadia method of locating points is one in which distances are measured by
... If the rod is held at different distances from the telescope different ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"The old map or sketch clearly showed this ; and the correspondences of distances
and other evidence showed that the east line must have been actually ..."
5. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"distances FROM LONDON BY AIR Л list of the distances In statute miles from London
to various places abroad. distances given are those of the ..."
6. A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest by Edward Herbert Bunbury (1883)
"ESTIMATED distances. Sir H. Rawlinson observes in his able memoir on the site of
... Pliny has indeed preserved to us an itinerary of the distances from the ..."
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