Definition of distant

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

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Freezing :: Freezing (a.) Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner..
Short :: Short (superl.) Not distant in time; near at hand.
Strange :: Strange (superl.) Reserved; distant in deportment.
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..
Son :: Son (n.) A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general..
Low :: Low (superl.) Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes..
Telescope :: Telescope (n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies..
Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine..
Farmost :: Farmost (a.) Most distant; farthest.
Removed :: Removed (a.) Distant in location; remote.
Ulterior :: Ulterior (a.) Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain..
Semiquintile :: Semiquintile (n.) An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees..
Circle :: Circle (n.) A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center..
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..
Trine :: Trine (n.) The aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, or one third of the zodiac; trigon..
Province :: Province (n.) A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital..
Distant :: Distant (a.) Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance..
Remittance :: Remittance (n.) The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation..
Parallel :: Parallel (n.) A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc..
Telespectroscope :: Telespectroscope (n.) A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars..
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