comma vs distance

comma

noun
  • A brief interval. 

  • A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways. 

  • In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma. 

  • The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. 

  • A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia. 

  • A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence. 

verb
  • To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas. 

distance

noun
  • Length or interval of time. 

  • Remoteness of place; a remote place. 

  • The space measured back from the winning-post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in the final heat. 

  • A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance. 

  • The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness. 

  • A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse. 

  • The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line. 

  • The entire amount of progress to an objective. 

  • Remoteness in succession or relation. 

  • The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities. 

verb
  • To lose interest in a specific issue. 

  • To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind. 

  • To move away (from) someone or something. 

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