Definition of distant

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Distant (a.) Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.

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Chill :: Chill (a.) Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception..
Rotation :: Rotation (n.) The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution..
Prolong :: Prolong (a.) To put off to a distant time; to postpone.
Round :: Round (a.) Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; as, a round ball..
Far :: Far (a.) Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
Son :: Son (n.) A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general..
Antisolar :: Antisolar (a.) Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180ยก distant from the sun.
Tetragon :: Tetragon (n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle..
Aerolite :: Aerolite (n.) A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone..
Distantly :: Distantly (adv.) At a distance; remotely; with reserve.
Semiquartile :: Semiquartile (n.) An aspect of the planets when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half..
Infinity :: Infinity (n.) That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity..
Midland :: Midland (a.) Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants..
Cold :: Cold (n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed..
Insinuation :: Insinuation (n.) That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion; as, slander may be conveyed by insinuations..
Inequidistant :: Inequidistant (a.) Not equally distant; not equidistant.
Level :: Level (n.) A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere..
Long :: Long (adv.) At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest..
Freezing :: Freezing (a.) Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner..
Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine..
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