Meaning of Remove | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Avert something of his possessor.
2. Remove or #move of something or somebody, of way of not being in contact.
3. Remove or #move to something or somebody of a thing or person, so that they are not in contact.
4. The act of removing something.
5. Do that something that was in a place leave to be here.
6. Abandon the active labour life, leave to exert a profession by limit of age.
7. Remove or #move something so that it was not visible.
8. A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
   historical
9. Abandon an activity to devote to another thing.
10. #Take or #move to a person of an activity.
11. (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
    British
12. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
13. Distance in time or space; interval.
14. Emotional distance or indifference.
    broadly, figuratively
15. State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
    broadly, figuratively
16. The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
    dated
17. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

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Examples

“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.”

“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 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.”

“A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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; […]”

“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.”

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

“His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails”

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