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# distance

«distance» in Mova's school dictionary: **how far it is from one place to another** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (distance, distances)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Distance is how far it is from one place to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/#m1)

2) «In the distance» means far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/#m2)

3) To keep your distance is to stay away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a length between places or travelled; distance = speed × time; distance around a shape is the perimeter; maps and scales; science: the distance from Earth to the Sun, light-years; PE: long-distance running; safety: keep a safe distance from roads, fires and wild animals

### examples

- The distance from home to school is 2 km. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/#x1)
- What distance does the car travel in 3 hours at 50 km an hour? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/#x2)
- She ran a distance of 400 meters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/#x3)
- Find the distance around the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/#x4)
- We saw mountains in the distance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/#x5)
- Keep your distance from the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/#x6)
- The Moon is a long distance from Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/#x7)
- Measure the distance on the map with a ruler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/#x8)
- Still it was a great distance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/#x9)

### note

Asks for a length; with speed and time: distance = speed × time. Trap: a round trip is twice the one-way distance.

### In the corpora

- [Prince Philip died on 9 April 2021 aged 99, and the Queen sat alone at his funeral because of Covid distancing rules.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/16/)
- [Overworking means adding too much until the picture gets muddy; painters step back and look from a distance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/15/)
- [A galloping racehorse can reach about 70 kilometres an hour over a short distance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/10/)
- [These words put distance between people and what is really done, which is why it matters to know what they mean.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/3/)
- [Alligators can lunge very fast over a short distance, in the water and on land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/26-wild-animals/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «distance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.