distant — İngilizce Sözlük

Sıfat

1. Far off (physically, logically or mentally).

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   faraway

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   We heard a distant rumbling but didn't pay any more attention to it. She was surprised to find that her fiancé was a distant relative of hers. His distant look showed that he was not listening to me.

   Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

2. Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   aloofcold

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   Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.

3. Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).

   Kullanım

   • not-comparable

   Zıt anlamlılar

   local

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   Any determination that a particular television signal is "distant" must, of course, be made with respect to its proximity to a specific local area, which we have termed the CATV community, […]

   Finally, there will be those unusual situations where a signal is distant to part of a CATV system and local to the rest of it.

Sıfat

1. separated in space or coming from or going to a distance

   Zıt anlamlılar

   close

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   distant villages

   the sound of distant traffic

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   a distant sound

   a distant telephone call

2. far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   remote

   Zıt anlamlılar

   close

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   a distant cousin

   a remote relative

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   a distant likeness

   considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics

3. remote in manner

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   aloofupstage

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   stood apart with aloof dignity

   a distant smile

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   he was upstage with strangers

4. separate or apart in time

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   remoteremoved

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   distant events

   the remote past or future

5. located far away spatially

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   remote

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   distant lands

   remote stars