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nose
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odo-
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distancelessness
bittock
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hop, skip, and a jump
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spitting distance
little by little
shortly
cough and a spit
mileage
milage
widespan
piece
inhowfar
meco-
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come
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minute
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wee
long-range
closeness
stand back
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separation
diameter
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interval
cunt hair
whisker
hairsbreadth
hair
hair's-breadth
distancer
long haul
scale
set back
furthest
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metric
on a sixpence
apomecometry
hair's breadth
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pin back
DTE
carry
longinquity
leptomorphic
widely
ways
k
deep
microgeography
span
bridge over
bridge
micrometer caliper
Bhattacharyya distance
micrometer gauge
micrometer
RLL
coss
masoscale
chain
odometry
proximic
make
milliparsec
outbye
cooee
Altuve
microparsec
blue
thought
kilometres per second
kilometres per hour
km/h
kilometers per hour
country mile
kph
kilometers per second
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brief
widespan
long-distance
long-range
far
metric
leptomorphic
masoscale
proximic
long
by inches
by small degrees
little by little
shortly
inhowfar
furthest
farthest
widely
deep
outbye
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step
nose
handsbreadth
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distancelessness
bittock
hop, skip, and a jump
spitting distance
cough and a spit
mileage
milage
piece
way
hour
minute
nearness
wee
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inch
separation
diameter
outbounds
interval
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whisker
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hair
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apomecometry
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Bhattacharyya distance
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micrometer
RLL
coss
odometry
milliparsec
cooee
Altuve
microparsec
blue
thought
kilometres per second
kilometres per hour
km/h
kilometers per hour
country mile
kph
kilometers per second
gigaparsec
come
stand back
set back
step
eat up
pin back
carry
span
bridge over
bridge
chain
make
noun
noun
- a short distance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the distance covered by a step
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- relative position in a graded series
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- a musical interval of two semitones
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
verb
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- measure (distances) by pacing
- shift or move by taking a step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- treat badly
- furnish with steps
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
noun
- a small distance
- the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft)
- the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon
- a symbol of inquisitiveness
- the sense of smell (especially in animals)
- a natural skill
- a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
verb
noun
adv
adj
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- good at remembering
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
adj
- of relatively great height
- involving substantial risk
- planning prudently for the future
- having or being more than normal or necessary
verb
noun
noun
noun
noun
- a distance
- a separate part of a whole
- an item that is an instance of some type
- a portion of a natural object
- a musical work that has been created
- an instance of some kind
- an artistic or literary composition
- a portable gun
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- a work of art of some artistic value
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a share of something
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
verb
prefix
noun
- the property of distance in general
- how something is done or how it happens
- to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
- a line leading to a place or point
- the condition of things generally
- a course of conduct
- any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another
- a journey or passage
- space for movement
- doing as one pleases or chooses
- a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'
- a portion of something divided into shares
adv
verb
- cover a certain distance
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- come to pass; arrive, as in due course
- reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position
- to be the product or result
- be found or available
- come forth
- be a native of
- extend or reach
- exist or occur in a certain point in a series
- come under, be classified or included
- happen as a result
- add up in number or quantity
- to measure up to in kind or quality
- be received
- come to one's mind; suggest itself
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- proceed or get along
- experience orgasm
- have a certain priority
noun
noun
- Any very short distance.
- A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- A small island; an islet.
- A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
- A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
- An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
- Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
adj
verb
noun
- the distance between things
- the state of lacking unity
- coming apart
- sorting one thing from others
- the social act of separating or parting company
- the space where a division or parting occurs
- the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
- (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
- the act of dividing or disconnecting
noun
- a very small distance or space
- a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
- filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
- any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
- cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
- a filamentous projection or process on an organism
noun
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- Limescale.
- Size; scope.
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
- A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- A scale insect.
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
verb
- To climb to the top of.
- To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- To scatter; to spread.
- To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
- To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- To remove the scales of.
adj
- Of or relating to distance.
- Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
- Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
noun
- A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
- A metric tensor.
- A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": d(x,y)>0, (2) "identity of indiscernibles": d(x,y)=0 mbox iffx=y, (3) "symmetry": d(x,y)=d(y,x), and (4) "triangle inequality": d(x,y)<d(x,z)+d(z,y).
verb
prep_phrase
verb
- cover a certain distance or advance beyond
- move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- serve as a means for expressing something
- bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of
- support or hold in a certain manner
- contain or hold; have within
- extend to a certain degree
- continue or extend
- be necessarily associated with or result in or involve
- win in an election
- include, as on a list
- behave in a certain manner
- have on hand
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- propel
- pass on a communication
- have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence
- be conveyed over a certain distance
- keep up with financial support
- have or possess something abstract
- be equipped with (a mast or sail)
- win approval or support for
- compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance
- take further or advance
- have on the surface or on the skin
- capture after a fight
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication
- pursue a line of scent or be a bearer
- bear (a crop)
- propel or give impetus to
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- be able to feed
- have a certain range
- secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions)
- be successful in
- sing or play against other voices or parts
- be pregnant with
noun
noun
adv
adj
- marked by depth of thinking
- very distant in time or space
- intense or extreme
- having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
- strong; intense
- relatively thick from top to bottom
- extending relatively far inward
- (of darkness) densely dark
- large in quantity or size
- with head or back bent low
- of an obscure nature
- difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
noun
- the central and most intense or profound part
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- literary term for an ocean
adj
verb
- To extend through the distance between or across.
- To extend through (a time period).
- To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
- To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
- To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
noun
- The space of all linear combinations of something.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- A small space or a brief portion of time.
- The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
verb
noun
- a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
- a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected
- something resembling a bridge in form or function
- the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose
- any of various card games based on whist for four players
- a wooden support that holds the strings up
- a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth
- the link between two lenses; rests on the nose
- an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands
noun
verb
- To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- To link multiple items together.
- To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
- To obligate.
- To fasten something with a chain.
- To secure someone with fetters.
- To load and automatically run (a program).
- To be chained to another data item.
noun
- A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
- A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- A long measuring tape.
- A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- The warp threads of a web.
- A series of interconnected things.
verb
- To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- To defecate or urinate.
- To constitute.
- To proceed (in a direction).
- To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
- To develop into; to prove to be.
- To prepare (food); to cook (food).
- To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- To force to do.
- To move at (a speed).
- To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
- To indicate or suggest to be.
- To enact; to establish.
- To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
- To form or formulate in the mind.
- To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- To recognise, identify, spot.
- To take the virginity of.
- To perform a feat.
- To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
- To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- To cause to be.
- To build, construct, produce, or originate.
- To behave, to act.
- To interpret.
- To write or compose.
- To add up to, have a sum of.
- To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- To appoint; to name.
- To bring into success.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
noun
- A person's character or disposition.
- Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- A made basket.
- The camera was of German make.
- A home-made project
- Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
- Brand or kind; model.
- Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
- Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
- Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
- A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
- The closing of an electrical circuit.
- Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
- A promotion.
- Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
noun
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- A blue uniform. See blues.
- One of the three color charges for quarks.
- A bluefish.
- A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- An umpire, in reference to the typical dark blue color of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- Blue clothing.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- A member of law enforcement.
- A type of firecracker.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
- The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and purple in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- An argument or brawl.
verb
- To fight, brawl, or argue.
- To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
adj
- Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- Having a color charge of blue.
- Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
- Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- Having blue as its color.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade of the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep red blood cells.
- Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
noun
- A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.
- A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
- The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
- Anxiety, distress.
- Representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
- The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation.
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