What's the difference between distance and phone?

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).

Phone


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
  • (2) "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think?
  • (3) Just don’t be surprised if they ask you to repair their phones, too.
  • (4) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
  • (5) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
  • (6) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.
  • (7) Its struggling mobile phone business resulted in a net loss of 136 billion yen for the three months to September, although that figure was smaller than analysts had predicted.
  • (8) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
  • (9) They also had speakers, long before boomboxes and mobile phones pushed sounds out in public.
  • (10) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
  • (11) Ed Balls, the shadow home secretary, today called on the head of the Metropolitan police to reopen the investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World.
  • (12) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
  • (13) Customers who sign up to the Tesco Mobile Xtras programme will see an extra full-screen ad roughly every third time they unlock their phone.
  • (14) Source: Mediacells (Or view the map at OpenHeatMap ) At the other end of the scale, a number of countries will see proportionately few new buyers - suggesting that the remaining featurephone owners are declining to upgrade to more powerful phones.
  • (15) I've spoken to her on the phone and seen her a couple of times, but I've not noticed any change in Georgina.
  • (16) While there's no indication of whether Zuckerberg's teams will act on Dediu's advice, the rumours that Facebook is working on a phone have surfaced from time to time – most recently in April, when the Taiwanese news site Digitimes suggested it is working with Taiwan's HTC to build a device integrating all the Facebook functions, for release this autumn.
  • (17) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
  • (18) More Apple and Android phones have now been sold, for example, than all the Japanese cameras ever made.
  • (19) January 2011 • Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor (news), is suspended following a "serious allegation" relating to phone hacking during Andy Coulson's editorship of the paper.
  • (20) Jowell said she was first told that her phone had been hacked "on 28 or 29 occasions" by the police in May 2006.