What's the difference between departure and distance?

Departure


Definition:

  • (n.) Division; separation; putting away.
  • (n.) Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
  • (n.) Removal from the present life; death; decease.
  • (n.) Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
  • (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
  • (n.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ultimate nonsurvivors of ICU admission (36 per cent) had shorter out-of-hospital times, shorter travel distances, and increased interventional support, as assessed by the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System applied over the telephone and prior to departure at the referring hospital.
  • (2) The unidirectional Cl- fluxes may have significant contributions from both the transcellular and paracellular pathways, with the direction of departure from predicted values being consistent with the presence of Cl- exchange diffusion.
  • (3) The announcement of Dame Helen Ghosh's departure from the top job at the Home Office the morning after the Olympics is likely to leave Whitehall looking "maler and paler".
  • (4) At higher concentrations of burimamide, inhibition curves showed distinct evidence of departure from competitive character for both guinea pig and rabbit atria.
  • (5) The main findings of the study in comparison with the control group were: Mean OCC residue levels in blood were slightly higher in group A and markedly so in group B; The variability and the extent of departure from normality of distributions of organochlorine insecticides (OCIs) decreased, whereas those of PCBs increased, in arteriosclerotic patients (more markedly in group B); The degree of correlation between blood serum levels of various OCCs was elevated in group A and low in group B.
  • (6) I suppose he’ll have to go to QPR.” Lampard released a statement confirming his departure from Chelsea that read: “When I arrived at this fantastic club 13 years ago I would never have believed that I would be fortunate enough to play so many games and enjoy sharing in so much success.
  • (7) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
  • (8) The latter, which is external and solvent accessible, is associated with a distortion in the alpha-helix centered around Tyr33 which consists of a significant increase in the CO(i-4)-N(i) and CO(i-4)-NH(i) distances relative to those in the rest of the helix, as well as a significant departure in the phi, psi angles of Tyr33 relative to regular helical geometry.
  • (9) The departure of Emmerson – who said in a statement that no allegations had been put to him – is a huge blow.
  • (10) The model assumption that there are no second- or higher-order interactions was tested in the 2 X 2 X 2 X 2 table of twin by disease outcomes without revealing strong evidence of departure, even in this large data set.
  • (11) Four non-executive directors have now announced their departure.
  • (12) Yes, Shine, the company she set up after a controversial departure from Sky, was helped by an output deal with that branch of the family firm.
  • (13) On Tuesday afternoon, there was speculation that the government was rushed into making the announcement of Kerslake's departure following a report on Monday's Newsnight programme which claimed that Kerslake had been sacked.
  • (14) With Hilton's departure to the US, Coulson's role is likely to become even more important.
  • (15) The 24-year-old becomes Alan Pardew’s fifth signing of the summer and offers much-needed support up front after the departures of the loan signing Loic Rémy and the out-of-contract Shola Ameobi.
  • (16) The killings set the stage for the departure of former president Viktor Yanukovych, the installation of the new government, the Russian incursion in Crimea and Ukraine's current crisis.
  • (17) Taking the results of this first series as a point of departure, the next experiment focussed on the possible masking influence of friction noise on the perception of a preceding stop.
  • (18) However, the dihybrid cross with linkage group I marker maroon showed a highly significant departure from 39:13:9:3 ratio.
  • (19) He told me it was a difficult moment because of the departure of André, who is a friend of his, and that we had to look ahead.
  • (20) In overturning the fine, the court today found that the commission had long "practiced restraint" in exercising its authority to sanction broadcasters for indecent content, and that the mammoth fine was an improper departure from that.

Distance


Definition:

  • (n.) The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place.
  • (n.) Remoteness of place; a remote place.
  • (n.) A space marked out in the last part of a race course.
  • (n.) Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left.
  • (n.) Space between two antagonists in fencing.
  • (n.) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape.
  • (n.) Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety.
  • (n.) Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events.
  • (n.) The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
  • (n.) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.
  • (n.) Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.
  • (n.) The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh.
  • (v. t.) To place at a distance or remotely.
  • (v. t.) To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.
  • (v. t.) To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The distance between the end of fic and the start of pabA was 31 base pairs.
  • (2) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
  • (3) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
  • (4) The capillary-adipocyte distances were shorter and the vascularization density was higher in old rats.
  • (5) Within the capillary-perfused mucosa and muscularis (between 50 and 2000 microns from the urothelial surface), concentrations decreased by 50% for each 500-microns distance.
  • (6) When compared with nonspecialized regions of the cell membranes, these contact sites were characterized by a decreased intercellular distance, subplasmalemmal densities and coated pits.
  • (7) The distance of nucleoid sedimentation increased as a function of exposure temperature and exposure time, and was proportional to an increased protein to DNA ratio in the nucleoids.
  • (8) The bond distances of Cu to Cl(1), Cl(2), N(3) and N(3') atoms are 2.299 (1), 2.267 (1), 1.985 (4) and 1.996 (3) A, respectively.
  • (9) The authors used a linear multivariate regression to evaluate the effects of distance from the highway, age and sex of the child, and housing condition.
  • (10) Tests in which the size of the landmark was altered from that used in training suggest that distance is not learned solely in terms of the apparent size of the landmark as seen from the goal.
  • (11) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
  • (12) Long-distanced urethrocystopexy which permits to avoid an unwanted increase of outflow resistance with following retention of urine should be preferred.
  • (13) After using the OK method to obtain a distance curve for height, we introduce a new method (VADK) to derive velocity and acceleration curves from the fitted distance curve.
  • (14) Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said people would see through her attempts to distance herself from Gove.
  • (15) Transplanted cells divided in vivo and progressively migrated into the host brain from the site of implantation up to distances of about 1 mm.
  • (16) Discrimination was possible among these four groups on the basis of the Mahalanobis' generalized distance.
  • (17) Extrapolating animal data to the neonates, we found the thoracic segment length recommended (the average of 29% of body length and electrode distance) to be accurate.
  • (18) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
  • (19) The duration of electrophoresis was based on the migration of a marker dye for a predetermined distance.
  • (20) Near acuity with distance correction was J2 or more in 93.1% of the bifocals and in 17.4% of the monofocals (without correction: 79.3% and 41.4%, respectively).