8.2.6 Distance
Use this domain for words referring to the distance between two things.
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(1) What words refer to the distance between two things?
Example words: distance, how far, span, as the crow flies
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(2) What words indicate the distance between two places?
Example words: from, away, off, apart, away from
Dallas is a thousand miles <from> Phoenix.; Our house is two miles <from> town.; Our house is two miles <away>.
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(3) What words refer to the distance something can move?
Example words: range, reach (n), extent
The gun has a <range> of one mile.
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(4) What words indicate that something (like an area or road) continues for some distance?
Example words: extend, stretch, go on, continue, spread
The road <stretched> on for miles.
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(5) What question words ask for the distance between two things?
<How far> is New York from Washington?; <What is the distance> from New York to Washington?