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