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/ɹɪˈmuːv/
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/ɹɪˈmuv/
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/ɹɪˈmʉːv/
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/ɹəˈmʉːv/
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ɹɪˈmuːv
Verb
To delete.
Usage- Transitive
To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
Usage- Transitive
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He removed the marbles from the bag.
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Thou ſhalt not remoue thy neghbours marke which they of olde tyme haue ſett in thyne enheritaunce that thou enheretteſt in the londe which the Lorde thy God geueth the to enioye it.
His first indication of coming events was to remove the key from the outside to the inside of the door.
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Now that she was rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.
To move from one place to another, especially to take away. To replace a dish within a course.
Usage- Formal
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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.
To murder.
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To dismiss a batsman.
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To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
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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.
The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
To depart, to leave; to move oneself or be moved.
Usage- Archaic
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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
[…] you shall set your stakes at the brim of the water, each a yard apart, and so yedder them with your yedders, and so stake them with your strut stowers, that they may stand three tides without removing by the force thereof.
To change one's residence or place of business; to move.
Usage- Archaic
- Intransitive
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Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.
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Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.
Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
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I am going to remove. / Where are you going to remove to? / I don't know yet. / When will you know?
About a year ago we removed to the above address, which we leased on a five-year lease with privilege of cancellation in one year.
To dismiss or discharge from office.
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The President removed many postmasters.
Noun
The act of removing something.
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This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove.
A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
Usage- Historical
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A supper brings up the rear, not forgetting the introductory luncheon, almost equalling in removes the dinner.
An attempt at entrées and removes failed at the first dinner-party.
(at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
Usage- UK usage
A step or gradation (as in the phrase “at one remove”).
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A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
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That vve may underſtand the full extent of theſe relations, vve must conſider, that tvvo objects are connected together in the imagination, not only vvhen the one is immediately reſembling, contiguous to, or the cauſe of the other, but alſo vvhen there is interpoſed betwixt them a third object, vvhich bears to both of them any of theſe relations. This may be carried on to a great length; tho' at the ſame time vve may obſerve, that each remove conſiderably vveakens the relation.
Thus though this degree of faith is but one remove from disbelief, (denial) nevertheless as much probability is given to one side of the question as the other, and we stand, as it were, on an average between two.
In his unfortunate absence at this far remove of 2007, Zevon's musicianship and irascible wit are as missed as ever.
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They were standing in the foreshortened airlock approach now, having just left a gaggle of nervous techs and agents behind the sealed bulkhead. Nobody knew what they were about to unleash, so it was best to keep it as many removes from the rest of the Site as was possible. When they opened the vault door, the filtration systems would whir to life and start sifting the air for esoteric elements. Ibanez suspected it would be months before the approach was considered clean, the doors retracted and active air and pedestrian circulation restored.
Distance in time or space; interval.
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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; […]
Emotional distance or indifference.
Usage- broadly
- Figurative
State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
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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.
The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
Usage- Dated
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It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
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His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails
Noun
degree of figurative distance or separation
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just one remove from madness
it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy
Verb
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
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remove a threat
remove a wrapper
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Remove the dirty dishes from the table
take the gun from your pocket
This machine withdraws heat from the environment
Take that weight off me!
pull the old soup cans from the supermarket shelf
remove from a position or an office
dispose of
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Get rid of these old shoes!
The company got rid of all the dead wood
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We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
cause to leave
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The teacher took the children out of the classroom
shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
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He removed his children to the countryside
Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city
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remove a case to another court
stay away or leave
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He absented himself
kill intentionally and with premeditation
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The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered
get rid of something abstract
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The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage
God takes away your sins