distancer
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]distancer (plural distancers)
- (psychology) A person who tends to maintain emotional distance and detachment.
- Coordinate term: pursuer
- A means for establishing physical or emotional distance.
- 2008 December 14, Ben Ratliff, “Critic's Choice: New CDs”, in The New York Times[2]:
- The band’s third album, “When the World Comes Down,” isn’t striking obscure poses, inventing slang or playing with the audience through distancers like tension and distortion.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]distancer (plural distancers)
- (dated) A long-distance runner.
- Synonym: long distancer
- 1921 August 22, “Paulist Distancer Triumphs in Two-Mile Race”, in The New York Times[3], page 16:
- Phillips was one of a field of a dozen distancers who started in the twomile handicap run which featured the games of the Friend's of Irish Freedom at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn.
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]distancer c
Verb
[edit]distancer or distancér
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English distance + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]distancer
- (transitive) to distance, outdistance
Conjugation
[edit]This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.
Conjugation of distancer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | distancer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | distançant /dis.tɑ̃.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | distancé /dis.tɑ̃.se/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | distance /dis.tɑ̃s/ |
distances /dis.tɑ̃s/ |
distance /dis.tɑ̃s/ |
distançons /dis.tɑ̃.sɔ̃/ |
distancez /dis.tɑ̃.se/ |
distancent /dis.tɑ̃s/ |
imperfect | distançais /dis.tɑ̃.sɛ/ |
distançais /dis.tɑ̃.sɛ/ |
distançait /dis.tɑ̃.sɛ/ |
distancions /dis.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
distanciez /dis.tɑ̃.sje/ |
distançaient /dis.tɑ̃.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | distançai /dis.tɑ̃.se/ |
distanças /dis.tɑ̃.sa/ |
distança /dis.tɑ̃.sa/ |
distançâmes /dis.tɑ̃.sam/ |
distançâtes /dis.tɑ̃.sat/ |
distancèrent /dis.tɑ̃.sɛʁ/ | |
future | distancerai /dis.tɑ̃.sʁe/ |
distanceras /dis.tɑ̃.sʁa/ |
distancera /dis.tɑ̃.sʁa/ |
distancerons /dis.tɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/ |
distancerez /dis.tɑ̃.sʁe/ |
distanceront /dis.tɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | distancerais /dis.tɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
distancerais /dis.tɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
distancerait /dis.tɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
distancerions /dis.tɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
distanceriez /dis.tɑ̃.sə.ʁje/ |
distanceraient /dis.tɑ̃.sʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | distance /dis.tɑ̃s/ |
distances /dis.tɑ̃s/ |
distance /dis.tɑ̃s/ |
distancions /dis.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
distanciez /dis.tɑ̃.sje/ |
distancent /dis.tɑ̃s/ |
imperfect2 | distançasse /dis.tɑ̃.sas/ |
distançasses /dis.tɑ̃.sas/ |
distançât /dis.tɑ̃.sa/ |
distançassions /dis.tɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
distançassiez /dis.tɑ̃.sa.sje/ |
distançassent /dis.tɑ̃.sas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | distance /dis.tɑ̃s/ |
— | distançons /dis.tɑ̃.sɔ̃/ |
distancez /dis.tɑ̃.se/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
[edit]- “distancer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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