Distance vs. Clearance — What's the Difference?

Distance is a numerical measurement of how far apart objects or points are. In physics or everyday usage, distance may refer to a physical length or an estimation based on other criteria (e.g.

The action or process of clearing or of being dispersed

The length of the space between two points

Official authorization for something to proceed or take place

The full length of a race

Clear space allowed for a thing to move past or under another

The avoidance of familiarity; reserve

The act or process of clearing.

Make (someone or something) far off or remote in position or nature

A space cleared; a clearing.

Beat (a horse) by a distance.

The amount of space or distance by which a moving object clears something.

The extent of space between two objects or places; an intervening space.

The height or width of a passage

The fact or condition of being apart in space; remoteness.

An intervening space or distance allowing free play, as between machine parts.

(Mathematics) The length or numerical value of a straight line or curve.

Permission for an aircraft, ship, or other vehicle to proceed, as after an inspection of equipment or cargo or during certain traffic conditions.

The extent of space between points on a measured course.

Official certification of blamelessness, trustworthiness, or suitability.

The length of a race, especially of a horserace.

A sale, generally at reduced prices, to dispose of old merchandise.

A point or area that is far away

The passage of checks and other bills of exchange through a clearing-house.

A depiction of a such a point or area.

The removal by the kidneys of a substance from blood plasma.

A stretch of space without designation of limit; an expanse

Renal clearance.

The extent of time between two events; an intervening period.

The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.

A point removed in time

The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine

The full period or length of a contest or game

The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage; a gap, headroom.

An amount of progress

A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.

Difference or disagreement

A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information.

Emotional separateness or reserve; aloofness.

A permission to use something, usually intellectual property, that is legally, but not otherwise, protected.

To place or keep at or as if at a distance

(retail) A sale of merchandise, especially at significantly reduced prices, usually in order to make room for new merchandise or updated versions of the same merchandise.

To cause to appear at a distance.

The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.

To leave far behind; outrun.

(medicine) The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.

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

The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.

Length or interval of time.

(soccer) The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.

The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.

(chess) Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.

Remoteness of place; a remote place.

Clear or net profit.

Remoteness in succession or relation.

(Australian rules football) The first disposal in a chain that leaves the area of a stoppage, or a disposal that leaves the area of a stoppage itself.

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

(Australian rules football) The act of leaving the area of a stoppage.

The entire amount of progress to an objective.

The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.

A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.

A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.

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

Clear or net profit.

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.

The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages.

(transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.

The distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them

(transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.

Vertical space available to allow easy passage under something

(transitive) To lose interest in a specific issue.

Permission to proceed;

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.

Remoteness of place; a remote place.

A space marked out in the last part of a race course.

Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; - contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left.

Space between two antagonists in fencing.

The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape.

Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety.

Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events.

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

A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.

Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.

The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh.

To place at a distance or remotely.

To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.

The property created by the space between two objects or points

A distant region;

Size of the gap between two places;

Indifference by personal withdrawal;

The interval between two times;

A remote point in time;

Keep at a distance;

Go far ahead of;