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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
remote
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a remote/faint possibility (=something that is not very likely)
▪ There's no point worrying about such a remote possibility.
a remote/isolated area (=a long way from towns and cities)
▪ a remote area of northeast Afghanistan
an outside/a remote chance (=a very small chance)
▪ He still has an outside chance of winning the championship.
remote access
remote control
▪ a missile guided by remote control
remote interrogation
remote sensing
remote working
remote (=far from any towns)
▪ There’s a remote cottage in the mountains where we go for walking holidays.
remote (=far away)
▪ I remember visiting a remote island off the west coast of Ireland.
▪ The islands were so remote that they could only be reached at certain times of the year.
remote (=one that is far away from larger towns)
▪ We need to get food aid to the more remote villages.
the distant/remote past
▪ Rivers of molten lava clearly flowed here in the distant past.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
access
▪ The new ScaNet/RemotePC is designed to give ScaNet users remote access from personal computers via a modem.
▪ There is also no character-based interface for remote access making it clumsy as a server.
▪ This ability to share the desktop has many useful features, like allowing remote access to your office computer.
▪ Auto-dialling and remote access is possible from touch-tone telephones and electronic mail and voice-mail functions may be incorporated at a later date.
ancestor
▪ Its genes also hint at its remote ancestors.
▪ Our remote ancestors took two hundred million years to learn how to adapt to the land.
▪ Our remote ancestors were among those who found it expedient to change and diversify.
area
▪ Darlington Community Health Council yesterday discussed the problem of delays in reaching patients who live in the more remote areas of Teesdale.
▪ There is more at stake here than just bringing boxes of sophisticated equipment to remote areas.
▪ The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas.
▪ Those living in the more remote area like Albany, where I did my first workshop, are truly isolated.
▪ School became standard, even in remote areas.
▪ But they do kill more of the lay people in the remote areas.
▪ He chose accessible routes, found accommodations in remote areas and was knowledgeable about local plants, animals and customs.
chance
▪ But they also knew there was a remote chance that their efforts might help to prevent catastrophe.
▪ I was naïve enough to think it had a remote chance.
▪ Powell only has a remote chance of playing, for Reilly's squad has retained its shape and strength.
computer
▪ Applications include mobile facsimile, data sharing and transfer and remote computer access.
▪ You can do this when the terminal window is active, before you dial the remote computer.
▪ The real work is being done by remote computers on the Web.
▪ The large central section of the window displays the remote computer bulletin board.
▪ For example, users can tell the authentication server with which remote computer they want to converse.
▪ It Chapter 5 205 sends two encrypted tokens: one for the user and another to send to the remote computer.
control
▪ Specification is high - remote control central locking and electric windows.
▪ Any flip of the remote control will serve up countless images of graphic violence.
▪ He would need a hired watcher for that, or a camera operated by remote control.
▪ Batut, whose work predates radio remote control, triggered his shutter by the use of slow burning fuse.
▪ I particularly liked the detachable remote control unit which not only allows you to operate the shutter but also the zoom.
▪ The handset looks like an elongated remote control and weighs only 1 pound.
▪ I roll a joint and fall into bed with my remote control.
▪ Players have a remote control and can channel surf to the channel they want to play on.
corner
▪ As the city slumbers, a slum area in a remote corner of the metropolis goes up in flames.
▪ There were no blurry eyes, no one-on-one sessions with the assistant coaches in a remote corner.
▪ They flip from one airport to another collecting and dumping in remote corners, removed from passenger terminals.
▪ Obscured by clouds and rain in remote corners of croplands, they damaged little more than anthills or irrigation networks.
▪ Nobody is quite sure what is happening in remote corners of KwaZulu-Natal like Izingolweni.
▪ Sibley lives in a remote corner of a remote mountain chain in the wilds of Arizona.
▪ Much more impact can be made by delving into the remote corners of society in pursuit of the exotic.
▪ A question bubbled from some remote corner of his brain, as uncomfortable as the children's sores.
location
▪ Personal computers are now commonly found in site huts, even in remote locations where they can be powered by car batteries.
▪ As might be expected, phone companies are major advocates and practitioners of working from home or other remote locations.
▪ A lot of the places where Ann and I fish are in remote locations.
▪ These can give people who have to live in certain remote locations a slightly better chance of obtaining appropriate accommodation.
▪ They are not particularly high, but very elegant and their remote location makes a visit a must.
▪ Those responsible for running major contracts in more remote locations may be on a bachelor status with more frequent air tickets.
▪ Because of the remote location, Stornoway Fire Brigade members were flown in by helicopter.
▪ The computer systems at the Grid Control Centre are supported by standby facilities on site and at a remote location.
past
▪ It may be that the old pictographic signs acquired a special magic power associated with the remote past.
▪ Besides the cyclical view and the progressive, there was the important tradition concerning a Golden Age in the remote past.
▪ He brings us literally face to face with the remote past.
possibility
▪ It had been a remote possibility, but it had existed.
▪ But that remote possibility, he knew, had already been examined and dismissed.
▪ On the other hand, there is just the remote possibility that some one will invent it tomorrow.
▪ The pipeline is no longer a remote possibility.
village
▪ Amelie pushed on through Dax, stopping overnight in remote villages and negotiating the various command posts nervously.
▪ As he had a car he invariably conducted those in the more remote villages such as Carlton, Dean, Millbrook and Riseley.
▪ Transports in and out carrying shipments of rice that were dropped into remote villages.
▪ Up in the remote villages they would be reason ably safe and the people would help them.
▪ During my stay in a remote village in Kangwon Province, watching me shampoo my hair became a spectacle.
▪ Ted Smith owned a smallholding in a remote village in South Lincolnshire.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Analysts say a political solution is more remote than ever.
▪ Peter's father was always remote and silent around his family.
▪ Space probes operate in dark, cold, remote parts of the solar system.
▪ The chances of such an accident happening again are very remote.
▪ The helicopter crashed in a remote desert area.
▪ The plane went down in a remote forest area.
▪ The procedure was monitored with remote cameras.
▪ There is a remote possibility the program could be halted, if funding were cut.
▪ There is only a remote prospect of peace in the region.
▪ They moved to a remote farmhouse in North Wales.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But they submitted that the damage was too remote.
▪ In Izmir, passengers transfer to a 70-foot yacht that sails along the coast, anchoring at remote bays and villages.
▪ It is your public name on the remote system, and you generally create it the first time you call in.
▪ Much effort went into tracing remote family connections abroad on the off chance of identifying a benefactor.
▪ On stage vacuum control for remote rotation is available if required.
▪ The problems of getting copy on to the system from a remote source was, therefore, already solved.
▪ The real work is being done by remote computers on the Web.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I try three remotes before one works.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remote

Remote \Re*mote"\ (r?-m?t"), a. [Compar. Remoter (-?r); superl. Remotest.] [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to remove. See Remove.]

  1. 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.
    --Parnell.

  2. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses. Specifically:

    1. Not agreeing; alien; foreign. ``All these propositions, how remote soever from reason.''
      --Locke.

    2. Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.

    3. Separate; abstracted. ``Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies.''
      --Locke.

    4. Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. ``From the effect to the remotest cause.''
      --Granville.

    5. Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.

  3. (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual. [1913 Webster] -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
remote

mid-15c., from Middle French remot or directly from Latin remotus "afar off, remote, distant in place," past participle of removere "move back or away" (see remove (v.)). Related: Remotely; remoteness. Remote control "fact of controlling from a distance" is recorded from 1904; as a device which allows this from 1920.

Wiktionary
remote

  1. 1 At a distance; disconnected. 2 distant or otherwise inaccessible. 3 unlikely. 4 emotion detached. n. 1 Short for remote control. 2 (context broadcasting English) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room. v

  2. (context computing English) To connect to a computer from a remote location.

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WordNet
remote

n. a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance; "he lost the remote for his TV" [syn: remote control]

remote

  1. adj. far distant in space; "distant lands"; "remote stars"; "a remote outpost of civilization"; "a hideaway far removed from towns and cities" [syn: distant, removed]

  2. very unlikely; "an outside chance"; "a remote possibility"; "a remote contingency" [syn: outside]

  3. far distant in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future"; "a civilization ten centuries removed from modern times" [syn: distant, removed]

  4. inaccessible and sparsely populated [syn: backwoods(a), outback(a)]

  5. far apart in nature; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics" [syn: removed(p)]

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Wikipedia
Remote

Remote may refer to:

  • Remote control, commonly known as a remote
  • Remote broadcast, commonly known in broadcasting as a person or a live remote
  • Remote access (disambiguation)
  • Remote desktop
  • Remoteness (disambiguation), various meanings:
    • Remoteness, inaccessible places on land and places in the ocean which are far from land
    • Remote and isolated community, a community in a remote location
    • Remoteness (legal), the legal concept of how remotely possible a consequence is (or should have been foreseen to be)
  • Remotion, withdrawal of a Privatdozent academic teaching license
  • Remote (manga), a manga
  • Remote (Hue & Cry album), a 1988 album by Hue & Cry
  • Remote (P.A.L. album), a 1996 album by P.A.L
  • Remote (film), a 1992 movie
  • Remote (band), ambient chillout band
  • Remote (Apple software), software application made by Apple Inc. for the iOS (Apple)
  • Remote control car, a car that can be controlled from a distance
  • Remote, Oregon
  • Remote Peninsula, Canada
  • Remote Western Australia
Remote (film)

Remote ( Moonbeam Entertainment, 1993) is a comedy film that was released on September 22, 1993, starring Chris Carrara, Jessica Bowman, and John Diehl. Ted Nicolaou directed the film and it was written by Mike Farrow, best known for his hard-boiled detective persona Tommy Sledge. The movie's premise is similar to that of Home Alone. It is the second film to be released by Moonbeam Entertainment.

Remote (Hue & Cry album)

Remote is the second studio album by Scottish duo Hue & Cry. It was released in 1988, and re-released in 2008. It includes the Top 20 single "Looking for Linda".

Remote (manga)

is a manga series written by Tadashi Agi and illustrated by Tetsuya Koshiba, and published in Kodansha's Young Magazine from 2002 to 2004. The manga follows Kurumi Ayaki, the newest member of the Unsolved Crimes Division, Special Unit B.

Remote was adapted into a ten-episode Japanese television drama in October 2002. The North American version of the manga is published by Tokyopop.

Remote (band)

Remote is an ambient music group. The group is a collaboration between film score composer and ambient icon Roger Eno, and Danish production duo and Cafe Del Mar favourites, Miro.

The group's first album Opening Door, a collection of thirteen pieces that provide a unique twist on old-school electronic ambient released on Tundra, was described as "a rolling soundscape of chilled cinematic moments combined with downtempo pop sensibilities."

Remote (album)
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Usage examples of "remote".

From the scholarly point of view, however, it is equally orthodox to affirm that no human beings had evolved in those remote times, let alone human beings capable of accurately mapping the landmasses of the Antarctic.

If we accept the skeletal evidence presented in these reports, we must go further and accept the existence of anatomically modern human beings in these remote periods.

We have moved on, and so you must expect to meet here a certain naiveness of contrivance and simplicity of aim appertaining to the remote epoch.

It was known that President Johnson was deeply offended by the indirect refusal of the House to pass any resolution in the remotest degree approving his course.

They went back to the remotest antiquity among the Greeks, and were attributed by some to Bakchos himself, and by others to Orpheus.

Most of the work could be done by machines, but there were judgment calls that eluded the best automation, and that no one had ever bothered to make remotes for.

But only as remote, Brigg considered, as his chances of opening his sexual life.

Blanche, entreating their mercy, immediately gave up the miniature, while another of the ruffians fiercely interrogated her, concerning what she had overheard of their conversation, when, her confusion and terror too plainly telling what her tongue feared to confess, the ruffians looked expressively upon one another, and two of them withdrew to a remote part of the room, as if to consult further.

If the Karens somehow suspected that he and Malibu had come to this remote corner of the globe as part of the ongoing war against the drug producers, they might reason that those warlords would pay handsomely for their capture.

I had no idea when Marit would return or when the reception was, so I wandered down to her media room, found a remote control and started a survey of the television landscape.

He looked remote and feral, with the narrow face and the sleek ferret head and the oversize arms, meaty as thighs, sticking out of the chopped-off sleeves.

Had you the slightest, the remotest sense of your high duty, messieurs, you would ask me rather to explain how, if what I state be true, I come to be confounded with Lesperon and arrested in his place.

Yet this did not explain the extent of the metalliferous strata, which were discovered in other more remote excavation sites as well.

Scientists tracking the meteor state that it should land somewhere in the remote upper Amazon basin, possibly near the Peruvian border, but it should be quite low over Rio when it arrives at approximately two-fifteen local time.

There is another kind of millenarian summons, a militant call that tends to place the faithful in barricaded buildings, often in remote mountain country, with a stock of ready weapons.