Crossword clues for remotely
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remote \Re*mote"\ (r?-m?t"), a. [Compar. Remoter (-?r); superl. Remotest.] [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to remove. See Remove.]
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Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
Places remote enough are in Bohemia.
--Shak.Remote from men, with God he passed his days.
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Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses. Specifically:
Not agreeing; alien; foreign. ``All these propositions, how remote soever from reason.''
--Locke.Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
Separate; abstracted. ``Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies.''
--Locke.Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. ``From the effect to the remotest cause.''
--Granville.Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
(Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual. [1913 Webster] -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 At a distance, far away. 2 not much; scarcely; hardly.
WordNet
adv. in a remote manner; "when the measured speech of the chorus passes over into song the tones are, remotely but unmistakably, those taught by the orthodox liturgy"
to a remote degree; "it is remotely possible"
Usage examples of "remotely".
Affront with the other local species, and, to their eternal credit, the Padressahl had been doggedly endeavouring to nudge the Affront into something remotely resembling decent behaviour for more centuries than they cared to remember or admit.
To deal even remotely with all that is being said and done against Anarchism would necessitate the writing of a whole volume.
Others, he was as happy to tease me, take care of me remotely via analog transmission.
I searched for Baltimore homicides on the net but came up with nothing remotely similiar to Angelique Bernet or the other killings.
Steve Penman or anything they believed to be even remotely suspicious.
And still more remotely, still deeper behind all these faces, slept remoter, deeper, older faces, prehuman, animal, vegetable, stony, as if the last man on earth in the moment before death were recalling once again with the speed of dream all the forms of past ages when the universe was young.
We reflect within ourselves there is life, there is intellect, not in extension but as power without magnitude, issue of Authentic Being which is power self-existing, no vacuity but a thing most living and intellective--nothing more living, more intelligent, more real--and producing its effect by contact and in the ratio of the contact, closely to the close, more remotely to the remote.
The signals captured by the equipment will be remotely retransmitted to a geostationary Sigint satellite, which will relay them to NSA.
I would much relish soft-soaping you, sweetling, if the exercise even remotely resembles drekking you.
The only remotely ordered area in the room was a cabinet of videos that seemed to be arranged according to some system, though there were gaps in the rows, and half a dozen unboxed tapes were piled on top of the TV.
He found a few winged things that might be called worms, but none that even remotely resembled the angleworm with the halo.
According to archeologists, the Danubian culture was agricultural, pre-urban, worshipped a female rather than a male god, and never invented anything remotely like a state.
And with that clue to guide him he presently began to catch other syllables which were remotely like syllables from the dryland speech.
There is no source of reference remotely as authoritative as the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Coyle and Tall Paul Shaw, and remotely possibly Frannie Unwin, all know Hal gets regularly covertly high.