Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)distancethe property created by the space between two objects or points (n)distancea distant region“I could see it in the distance” (n)distance, lengthsize 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” (n)distance, spacethe interval between two times“the distance from birth to death”,
“it all happened in the space of 10 minutes” (n)distancea 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” Verbs
(v)distancekeep at a distance“we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living”