region vs distance

distance vs region

region and distance both are nouns.

region is not a verb while distance is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
region	Yes	No	No	No
distance	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, distance is a hyponym of region; that is, distance is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than region:

region: the extended spatial location of something
distance: a distant region

Other hyponyms of region include air, atmosphere, biosphere, depths, interplanetary space, interstellar space, heliosphere, intergalactic space, deep space, aerospace, zone, belt, bottom, county, Eden, heaven, nirvana, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la, extremity, hell, hell on earth, hellhole, inferno, snake pit, the pits, inside, interior, ionosphere, layer, exterior, outside, radius, side, air, vacuity, vacuum, top, zodiac, house, mansion, planetary house, sign, sign of the zodiac, star sign, Papua, Sind, black hole, Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, Kuiper belt, mare, maria.

region (noun)	distance (noun)
a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve	the property created by the space between two objects or points
a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about	size of the gap between two places
the extended spatial location of something	indifference by personal withdrawal
a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth	a distant region
the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')	the interval between two times
	a remote point in time

region (verb)	distance (verb)
	go far ahead of
	keep at a distance

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