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Synonyms for distance
Synonyms for distance: space and length. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for distance
Two senses of distance, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
the interval between two times
The distance from birth to death.
distance in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The distance between the two phone calls made her wonder if he still thought about her.
- She measured the distance from the first cough to the fever breaking as three restless days.
How it behaves: In this temporal sense distance usually follows a preposition like from or between and pairs with a span noun such as years, days, or calls in fairly formal or reflective prose.
The true synonym
space
Same sentence, swapped: The space from birth to death.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot distance is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- meantime
- rhythm
- base
size of the gap between two places
The distance from New York to Chicago.
The true synonym
length
Same sentence, swapped: The length from New York to Chicago.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for distance in the sentence quoted.
- perimeter
- smallness
- base
Where distance turns up in the game
distance is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where distance is the trap
- baseverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is found, in the sense "use as a basis for", and distance is on the board beside it.
- lengthnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is duration, in the sense "continuance in time", with distance sitting one tile away.
- vicinitynoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is proximity, in the sense "the area near or surrounding a particular place", and distance is one of the three tiles that lose.
- distributionnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is dispersion, in the sense "the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume", so distance is there to be ruled out.
Play distance
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so distance reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because time is the company distance keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. distance carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.