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Remove

//ɹɪˈmuːv// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of removing something.

    "This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship."

  2. 2
    degree of figurative distance or separation wordnet
  3. 3
    A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course. historical

    "A supper brings up the rear, not forgetting the introductory luncheon, almost equalling in removes the dinner."

  4. 4
    (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last British
  5. 5
    A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")

    "A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator."

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  1. 6
    Distance in time or space; interval.

    "How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy Name, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine; […]"

  2. 7
    Emotional distance or indifference. broadly, figuratively
  3. 8
    State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things. broadly, figuratively

    "The fact that one structure applied in the rainy season and another in the dry allowed Nambikwara chiefs to view their own social arrangements at one remove: to see them as not simply “given”, in the natural order of things, but as something at least partially open to human intervention."

  4. 9
    The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move. dated

    "It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire."

  5. 10
    The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

    "His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails"

Verb
  1. 1
    To delete. transitive
  2. 2
    remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract wordnet
  3. 3
    To move from one place to another, especially to take away. transitive

    "He removed the marbles from the bag."

  4. 4
    stay away or leave wordnet
  5. 5
    To move from one place to another, especially to take away.; To replace a dish within a course. formal, obsolete, transitive

    "But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either."

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  1. 6
    get rid of something abstract wordnet
  2. 7
    To murder. transitive
  3. 8
    shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes wordnet
  4. 9
    To dismiss a batsman. transitive
  5. 10
    dispose of wordnet
  6. 11
    To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.). transitive

    "Eternall thraldom was to her more liefe, / Then loſſe of chaſtitie, or chaunge of loue : / Dye had ſhe rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any ſhould of falſeneſſe her reproue, / Or looſeneſſe, that ſhe lightly did remoue."

  7. 12
    remove from a position or an office wordnet
  8. 13
    To depart, to leave; to move oneself or be moved. archaic, intransitive

    "THenne the kynge dyd doo calle syre Gawayne / syre Borce / syr Lyonel and syre Bedewere / and commaunded them to goo strayte to syre Lucius / and saye ye to hym that hastely he remeue oute of my land / And yf he wil not / bydde hym make hym redy to bataylle and not distresse the poure peple"

  9. 14
    cause to leave wordnet
  10. 15
    To change one's residence or place of business; to move. archaic, intransitive

    "Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane."

  11. 16
    kill intentionally and with premeditation wordnet
  12. 17
    To dismiss or discharge from office.

    "The President removed many postmasters."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native Old English āfierran.

Etymology 2

From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native Old English āfierran.

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