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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remove \Re*move"\ (r?-m??v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Removed (-m??vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Removing.] [OF. removoir, remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to move. See Move.]
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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.
--Deut. xix. 14.When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed.
--Goldsmith. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. ``King Richard thus removed.''
--Shak.-
To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
Note: See the Note under Remove, v. i.
Remove \Re*move"\, n.
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The act of removing; a removal.
This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.
--Milton.And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.
It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
--J. H. Newman. The state of being removed.
--Locke.That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
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The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
--Addison. (Far.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
--Swift.
Remove \Re*move"\ (r?-m??v"), v. i. To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I can not taint with fear.
--Shak.
Note: The verb remove, in some of its application, is synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular, continued course or motion. We never say the wind or water, or a ship, removes at a certain rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one station or permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "act of removing," from remove (v.). Sense of "distance or space by which any thing is removed from another" is attested from 1620s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of removing something. 2 ''(archaic)'' Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement. 3 (context British English) (''at some public schools'') A division of the school, especially the form prior to last 4 A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove") 5 distance in time or space; interval. vb. (label en transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
WordNet
n. degree of figurative distance or separation; "just one remove from madness" or "it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy";
v. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" [syn: take, take away, withdraw]
remove from a position or an office
dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood" [syn: get rid of]
cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the classroom" [syn: take out, move out]
shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes; "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court" [syn: transfer]
go away or leave; "He absented himself" [syn: absent]
kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, polish off]
get rid of something abstract; "The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage"; "God takes away your sins" [syn: take away]
Wikipedia
Remove, removed or remover may refer to:
- Removalist or household goods Mover
- Needle remover
- Polish remover
- Staple remover
- Remove (education)
- The degree of cousinship, i.e. "once removed" or "twice removed" - see Cousin chart
A Remove Class in education was a group of students at an English Public School who were prevented from going up with their peers in order to receive extra tuition. In Frank Richards' Billy Bunter series the Remove Class are the focus for all the stories.
Usage examples of "remove".
The short drive ended with him being carried onto a hypersonic aircraft, just big enough to accommodate Tochee at the back where a dozen seats had been removed.
IT people or accounting people to increase their own salaries, make payments to a phony vendor, remove negative ratings from HR records, and so on.
Take away the opportunity of the individual to accumulate wealth for himself, and you remove the temptation for fraud, theft and numerous other crimes, for there is then no incentive left for them.
Whitehall exhaled slowly, extinguished the acetylene flame, and removed his goggles.
Before she could answer, however, I remembered something she had just said and a sudden and terrifying thought occurred to me: Mr Advowson had said that it was Hinxman who had removed the entry from the vestry and I tried now to recall if Sukey had seen him on that distant day when he and Emma tried to abduct me.
He sat there in the office, tapping at the computer as he wrung the cost analyses out of it, adding variables, removing the more unlikely ones, inserting market projections and probable effects on other affiliated firms of the company.
The soil was removed from around one of these arched secondary shoots, and a glass filament was affixed to the basal leg.
At this rate, he was going to be ambulatory in a few hours, so I removed the restraints.
Then, and not until then, did Gregori carefully remove his foot from the ampoule, stoop, pick it up and slide it back inside its steel jacket.
Please remove the hemp to a place sufficiently distant from the house, so that its bad smell may not annoy the spirits to be evoked by me, and let the air be purified by the discharge of gunpowder.
He asserted that the scheme he was about to propose would remove all these inconveniencies, prevent numberless frauds, perjuries, and false entries, and add two or three hundred thousand pounds per annum to the public revenue.
If he had known that Sir Winton was in London, he would have introduced Jon as the vicar and Torwell as an antiquarian, removing his reputation from consideration.
But since she accepted him as a harmless antiquarian, she also removed her habit coat whenever the work made her hot.
Once Beryla and her lover left the lab, Hael Sejm went to the refrigeration unit and removed thirty-two vials of antitoxin, placing them on a tray with just that many syringes.
With the tendons gleaming softly in their beds, I removed the last bits of the aponeurosis, sprayed the wound with a mixture of alcohol and distilled water for disinfection, and set about closing the incisions.