What's the difference between distant and farthest?

Distant


Definition:

  • (a.) Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
  • (a.) Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
  • (a.) Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
  • (a.) Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
  • (a.) Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
  • (2) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
  • (3) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
  • (4) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
  • (5) Seven patients died, six because of distant metastases within one year.
  • (6) Local or distant metastases presented in 6 patients.
  • (7) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
  • (8) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
  • (9) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
  • (10) The national study accrued 216 patients with measurable or evaluable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with either unresectable stage III, or distant metastasis (stage IV).
  • (11) The special advantage of the UV-beam is that it allow to inactivate selectively of the particular elements of nuclear apparatus of living ciliates is to observe consequences of operation on distant descendants of irradiated cell.
  • (12) Although a high rate of local control can be expected, distant metastases continue to be a problem.
  • (13) Indeed, the geographical nature of the division also keeps a check on the club's carbon footprint – Dartford rarely have to travel far outside the M25, with the trips to Bognor Regis and Margate about as distant as they get.
  • (14) Concomitant immunity (CI) is defined as the lack or retardation or proliferation of a secondary tumor implant at a distant site; it has been given an immunological interpretation.
  • (15) Children with osteosarcoma or Ewing's sarcoma rarely have bone disease distant from the site of their primary bone lesion at presentation.
  • (16) The effect of combined treatment was studied in 97 patients with nonseminomatous testicular tumors with regional and distant metastases with regard to the blood serum levels of alpha-fetoprotein and chorionic gonadotropin.
  • (17) At diagnosis, 15 (16.5%) patients had regional metastases and six (7%) had distant metastases.
  • (18) The PPi-dependent Pfk of potato is only distantly related to the ATP-dependent enzymes.
  • (19) Sequences homologous to Inp are present in multiple copies in the N. plumbaginifolia and the N. tabacum genome but not in more distant species.
  • (20) Local or regional recurrence without evidence of distant metastases was identified in 11 per cent of cases after 'curative' resections.

Farthest


Definition:

  • (Superl.) Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.
  • (adv.) At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two of them, extending farthest into the 5' and 3' direction respectively, were characterized by restriction mapping and Southern hybridization as well as by electron microscopic analysis of hybrids between the cloned DNA and ovomucoid mRNA.
  • (2) In the outer stripe only those proximal straight tubules (P3 segments) farthest from the vascular bundles were damaged.
  • (3) Dissection of the femoral nerve below the inguinal ligament and its branch(es) to an uninvolved area of the quadricepts the farthest from the location of the tumor is essential.
  • (4) First and farthest to spread was gas-light iodine 131, which tends to accumulate in the thyroid gland – it was quickly detected as far away as Tokyo.
  • (5) In the inner stripe only those thick ascending loops of Henle at the periphery of the vascular bundles escaped damage; all thick ascending loops of Henle lying farthest from the bundles were severely damaged.
  • (6) The interior of the molecule has extensive base-paired regions which connect distant regions of the molecule; the farthest being 2500 nucleotides apart.
  • (7) The farthest reaching proposals in more than a decade for the funding of long-term care for the elderly and disabled have met with a cautious government response , amid fears in Whitehall over the £1.7bn cost of the scheme.
  • (8) Visual fatigue was determined by the changes of visuognosis persistent time, nearest and farthest point in nearvision, and accommodation from before to after classes.
  • (9) These intermediates accumulated during excision of RNA primers in the presence of adenine 9-beta-D-arabinoside 5'-triphosphate, and those Okazaki fragments blocked by RNA primers (class III) were found to have originated the farthest from the 5' ends of long nascent DNA strands.
  • (10) It was assumed that items that maximally instantiated the rule were those farthest from the category boundary that separated small and large stimuli.
  • (11) In fact, observations established that older pedestrians were the safest age group, standing the farthest away from traffic.
  • (12) The compressive method was practiced instinctively in farthest antiquity.
  • (13) The general law of local regulation of the circulation and the "law of behaviour" of vascular smooth muscle are proposed on the basis of precise definition of hierarchically interrelated aims of the circulation: 1) stabilization of substances and heat fluxes through the tissue, 2) stabilization of the tissue environment at farthest points from the supplying vessels, and 3) minimization of circulating blood volume.
  • (14) The various experimental conditions incorporated binaural and monaural listening with the latter utilizing the ear nearest or ear farthest from the sound source.
  • (15) Muscles located farthest from the spine also played an important role as the trunk became more asymmetric.
  • (16) Nodes nearest to tumor showed least reaction; nodes at intermediate distances from tumor were most reactive, while those farthest away showed mostly little reaction.
  • (17) Le Guin won a national book award for The Farthest Shore in 1973, and on Wednesday reflected on the industry, which has undergone profound change in the more than four decades between these literary achievements.
  • (18) Similarly, the human gamma-globin gene is silenced earlier when present farthest from the LCR.
  • (19) This week, 40 years after the third Earthsea book, The Farthest Shore , won the National Book award in children’s literature, Le Guin has been awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, presented to her by Neil Gaiman in New York.
  • (20) With a mean of 6.9 mm, the apices of the mesial roots of the first molars were farthest from the canal.