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Distant meaning
Far off (physically, logically or mentally). | Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings. | Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).
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Only in the distant future, like so much we view in the distant past, will it be realized how society caused its own problems and blamed others for it.
She came in third, a distant third—like, I mean, a distant third,” Trump continued.
The distant perils of climate change are no longer very distant, however.
Twelve of them are located at distances more than five billion light years from Earth and the most distant is 10.9 billion light years away, the most distant growing black hole in a dwarf galaxy ever seen.
A distant cousin — what we would have called an elderly lady of eighty — was bringing greetings from even more distant relatives in Australia and suddenly forgot, as happens to many people half her age and a third of the age of Ma Murray, one name.
Conversely, because space is expanding, and more distant objects are receding ever more quickly, light emitted by us today may never "catch up" to very distant objects.
His error was due to interstellar dust in the Milky Way, which absorbs and diminishes the amount of light from distant objects, such as a globular clusters, that reaches the Earth, thus making them appear to be more distant than they are.
In a photo of a distant scene, all distant objects are perceived as smaller than when we observe them directly using our vision.
It is a spectroscopic binary, with a companion 0.36 AU distant, and a third star—an orange main-sequence star of spectral type K0—8100 AU distant.
Its perihelion is so distant (approximately 75 AU) that no currently observed mechanism can explain Sedna's eccentric distant orbit.
The name "painter's algorithm" refers to the technique employed by many painters of painting distant parts of a scene before parts which are nearer thereby covering some areas of distant parts.
According to research by an American science team published in 2015 found that Lake Chad had shrunk by 95 percent in forty years, implying that the region of the village of Dufuna would have been part of the lake’s flood plain in the distant past.
A couple of hours later, with the moon and stars above us and the lights of distant Dundee peeking between the hills, we stepped into the steaming bath and soaked up the silence and solitude.
A distant relative, Yasmine is now Mohammed’s only living family member.
A former president who didn’t show at the debate and the guy in distant second place in the polls also are Kremlin-appeasers.
After all, their nihilism was always supposed to fall upon distant and ridiculed others.
After his mother died when he was 10 following a long struggle with substance abuse, Anderson moved in with his distant uncle, Michael Brignac, 59.
After its successful mission, the Curiosity team was astounded to uncover a snapshot of Mars’ distant past: evidence that ancient lakes once existed and lapped at sandy shores.
Afterward, Jocelyn led Rob up to her bedroom and locked the door; with Tedros banging on the door to be let in, the two ended up sleeping together, and it's as if Tedros was all but a distant memory to Jocelyn.
A fury of pedals, pumping legs and the distant crackle of thunder got the evening going as the younger divisions took to the kids course.