remove
(noun) degree of figurative distance or separation; “just one remove from madness”; “it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy”
remove, take, take away, withdraw
(verb) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, 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”
absent, remove
(verb) go away or leave; “He absented himself”
remove, take away
(verb) get rid of something abstract; “The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage”; “God takes away your sins”
remove, transfer
(verb) 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”
remove
(verb) remove from a position or an office
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
(verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation; “The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
remove (third-person singular simple present removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed)
(transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
(obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
(transitive) To murder.
(cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
(transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
(intransitive, now, rare) To depart, leave.
(intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
To dismiss or discharge from office.
• unstay
• (move something from one place to another): settle, place, add
remove (plural removes)
The act of removing something.
(archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
(British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
Distance in time or space; interval.
(figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
Source: Wiktionary
Re*move" (r-mv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Removed (-mvd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Removing.] Etym: [OF. removoir, remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to move. See Move.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
Note: See the Note under Remove, v. i.
Re*move" (r-mv"), v. i.
Definition: 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.
Re*move", n.
1. 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. Goldsmith.
2. 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.
3. The state of being removed. Locke.
4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
5. 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.
6. (Far.)
Definition: The act of resetting a horse's shoe. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
