the property created by the space between two objects or points
size of the gap between two places; "the distance from New York to Chicago"; "he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"
indifference by personal withdrawal; "emotional distance"
a distant region; "I could see it in the distance"
the interval between two times; "the distance from birth to death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes"
a remote point in time; "if that happens it will be at some distance in the future"; "at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details"
keep at a distance; "we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living"
the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
a high public official of imperial China
any high government official or bureaucrat
a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia