Distance and Year

Distance

Distance noun - The space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects.

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Year and distance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Year" instead a noun "Distance".

Year noun - The period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun.

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Distance and year are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Distance" instead a noun "Year".

Nearby Words: yearly, yearling

full	full distance	full year
exact	exact distance	exact year
normal	normal distance	normal year
specific	specific distance	specific year
Other adjectives: certain, actual, entire, massive, great, wrong, extra, far, different.

A mistake that seems to be getting less common (but it still showed up in, eg., Earth 2): Like parsecs, light-years are a unit of distance (the distance light travels in a year), not time.

Source: Analysis / Unit Confusion
Mars' distance from the sun is, well, not similar (the Martian year is 687 days), but it is within the Sun's habitable zone, where liquid water could regularly exist.

Source: Useful Notes / Dan Quayle
It's so far away that their advanced spaceships took a year to traverse the distance to Earth, and they are trying to prepare Earth for when the bad aliens arrive in their less-advanced spaceships.

Source: Sci Fi Writers Have / No Sense Of Distance

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