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▪ I. remote, a. (n.) and adv.|rɪˈməʊt|
[ad. L. remōt-us, pa. pple. of removēre to remove. Cf. obs. F. remot, -mote (15–16th c. in Godef.).]
A. adj.
1. Placed or situated at a distance or interval from each other; far apart.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. vi. 47 Yf thaire be treen,..Her oon, ther oon, to leue afer remote I holde hit good. 1601Shakes. Phœnix & Turtle 29 Hearts remote, yet not asunder. 1726Leoni tr. Alberti's Archit. I. 16/1 They ought..not..to stand nearer or more remote than Use and Necessity requires. 1776J. Lee Introd. Bot. Explan. Terms 381 Remota, remote, placed at some Distance from each other. 1822J. Imison Sc. & Art I. 69 The nearer the mill-stones are to each other, the finer the corn is ground, and the more remote from one another the coarser. 1861J. R. Greene Man. Anim. Kingd., Cœlent. 204 In Aulopora the somewhat remote corallites are connected by means of a basal creeping cœnenchyma.
Comb.1867Sowerby Eng. Bot. VII. 163 Statice Bahusiensis... Remote-flowered Sea Lavender. 1880Hogg & Johnson Wild Fl. XI. Pl. 871 Carex remota... Remote-flowered Sedge.
2. a. Far away, far off, distant from some place, thing, or person; removed, set apart. (In lit. and fig. uses.)
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cv. iv, Soe remote from wrong of meaner hand That kings for them did sharp rebuke endure. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 806 Some..Hermitage, Remote from all the pleasures of the world. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. v. Wks. 1856 I. 63 The nigher it is to the flame, the more remote (ther's a word, remote), the more remote it is from the frost. 1664Power Exp. Philos. iii. 177 If a Pistol be shot off in a head remote from the eye of a pit, it will give but a little report. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 379 That was the remotest Thing from their Thoughts could be imagin'd. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 143 Remote from towns he ran his godly race. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xiii, The lake lay so remote from the immediate way to Naples. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. vii. 217 The principle of actions often lies remote from the actions themselves.
b. Widely different or divergent from something else. (Cf. 4.)
1659Hammond On Ps. xii. 8 Passing by all these, as remote from the meaning of the place. 1675Penn Eng. Pres. Interest 6 There cannot well be anything more remote from Arbitrariness. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. IV. ix. 275 So remote were they in this respect from the character of the ancient Greeks. 1788Reid Aristotle's Logic iv. §5. 89 Conclusions may be drawn very remote from the first principles. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 415 That this calculation was not remote from the truth we have abundant proof. 1854Thoreau Walden (1884) 140 These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface.
†c. Foreign or alien to a thing. Obs. rare—1.
1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 34, I was gotten into an Employment quite remote to my Genius, and directly contrary to the Life I delighted in.
3. a. Far-off, far-distant.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. iv. 6 So forth she rode,..Searching all lands and each remotest part. 1595Shakes. John v. ii. 31 To grace the Gentry of a Land remote. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 425 By home-bred Robbers, and remote Savages; five times stripd to the skin. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 78 Our Posterity may come by Glasses to out-see the Sun, and Discover Bodies in the remote Universe. 1683Brit. Spec. 118 To spread its bright Beams upon this remote and frozen Island of Britain. 1726Swift (title) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World,..by Lemuel Gulliver. 1780Harris Philol. Enq. Wks. (1841) 521 Marc Paul..travelled into those remote regions as far as the capital and court of Cublai Chan. 1818Shelley Eugan. Hills 261 Once remotest nations came To adore that sacred flame. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) I. Introd. 11 Volunteers from the remotest parts of Christendom. 1880Geikie Phys. Geog. Introd. 1 As we gaze into these depths [of space] still remoter and feebler twinkling points appear.
b. Out-of-the-way, retired, secluded.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. iii. 31 Places remote enough are in Bohemia, There..leaue it crying. a1667Cowley Agric. Wks. 1710 II. 725 The Company was gone Into a Room remote. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 266, I sent..one of the three..to my Cave, where they were remote enough, and out of Danger of being heard or discover'd. 1784Cowper Task iii. 117 With few associates, in remote And silent woods I wander. 1835Lytton Rienzi i. i, The path they had selected was remote and tranquil. 1865Trollope Belton Est. i. 2 The place is remote and the living therefore cheap.
c. In quasi-adv. use: At a distance, far off.
1667Milton P.L. ii. 477 Thir rising all at once was as the sound Of Thunder heard remote. 1715Pope Iliad iv. 424 Can'st thou, remote, the mingling Hosts descry..? 1765T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. I. 134 Living very remote at Springfield. 1781J. Morison in Sc. Paraphr. xxi. 1 Attend ye tribes that dwell remote; ye tribes at hand give ear.
d. Distant in (past or future) time.
1712Addison Spect. No. 273 ⁋12 æneas [was] the remote Founder of Rome. 1781Cowper Table T. 492 When remote futurity is brought Before the keen inquiry of her thought. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 15 The antiseptic qualities of smoke were known to remotest antiquity. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 165 The inheritance of disease or character from a remote ancestor.
e. (Also in compar.) Further.
1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. xxiv, For our separate use, good friend, We'll hold this hut's remoter end. 1862Spencer First Princ. i. iv. §26 (1875) 95 On thinking of a piano, there first rises in imagination its visual appearance, to which are instantly added..the ideas of its remote side and of its solid substance.
f. Situated, occurring, or performed at a distance (not necessarily great); remote control, control of apparatus, etc., at a distance; also (with hyphen) attrib.; so remote-controlled ppl. adj., remote-control vb. trans. and intr. (also fig.).
1904L. Andrews Electricity Control i. 8 It is probable..that for installations of a few thousand horse-power only, some simple method of mechanical remote control will be generally preferred. 1920Wireless World 7 Aug. 356/1 Pilot's and mechanic's cockpits are not very roomy compartments and therefore it has become standard practice to employ ‘remote control’, that is to say the main portion of the wireless apparatus..are [sic] fitted in one or two boxes which can be suspended in any convenient part of the main fuselage of the machine; these circuits being controlled by a small unit..which may be fitted on the dashboard of the machine. 1933Times 16 May 9/2 A remote control device for the selection of several alternative wireless programmes will soon be made available to the public. 1943Gloss. Terms Electr. Engin. (B.S.I.) 84 Remote-controlled substation, a substation the operation of which is controlled at a distance. 1956Nature 28 Jan. 160/2 The remote-handling device for removal of the collectors containing the enriched product without exposure to air. 1957Economist 9 Nov. 525/2 Because of their radioactivity, none of the materials can be handled normally. All operations are carried out painstakingly by remote control. 1961G. Millerson Telev. Production iii. 28 (caption) Lens turret,..rotated by rear handle..or remote switching. 1966P. O'Donnell Sabre-Tooth xv. 203 Two transmitters..were remote-controlled from the H.Q. section. 1967Cox & Grose Organization & Handling Bibl. Rec. by Computer iv. 95 The use of these direct access devices also paves the way for remote-terminal inquiry. 1970O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing vi. 96 Remote processing of data..normally requires multiprogramming. In remote processing, input and output goes via communication lines. 1970‘B. Mather’ Break in Line xv. 187, I wondered if he were still in Calcutta or was remote-controlling from London. 1970New Scientist 6 Aug. 286/1 The study defines remote-access computing as the use of computers where the main computer installation is at a distance from the user, who employs a terminal device to communicate with the computer over telephone or other links. 1972Times 11 Sept. (Botswana, etc., Suppl.) p. vi/2 (caption) Remote sensing, a development of aerial photography, can point to possible indications of mineral deposits. 1973C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. iv. 162 Many computer systems have low speed input/output devices, called remote terminals, attached to the central computer. 1974Harrods Christmas Catal. 69/1 Remote-control Gantry Crane, battery operated... 28{pp} high. {pstlg}8·50. 1977Nature 6 Jan. 34/2 Until this year, the most accurate means of studying the atmospheric pressure at the surface of Mars were provided by remote-sensing from fly-by or orbiting spacecraft. 1978R. V. Jones Most Secret War viii. 68 The German Navy was said to have developed remote-controlled rocket-driven gliders of about three metres span. 1981Oxford Jrnl. 15 May (Advt.), 20{pp} Colour TV. Remote control. Ibid., 14{pp} Colour Portable TV with infra-red remote control hand unit.
4. a. Far off, or distant, in various transf. uses: esp. not immediately or closely related to, connected with, bearing upon, or affecting something else.
1599Blundevil Art of Logike iii. iii, When is a Proposition said to consist of matter remote or vnnatural? When the Predicat agreeth no manner of way with the Subject: as, a man is a horse. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 104 Note that these middles haue contrariety in them in the remisse, or remote degree. 1679C. Nesse Antichrist 188, I would distinguish them from remoter providences. 1692Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. 357 A Soul that disperses it self upon all remote Actions, and applys it self properly to nothing. 1764Reid Inquiry i. i. 43 The external thing is the remote or mediate object. 1781Cowper Conversat. 154 Their nimble nonsense takes a shorter course,..And gains remote conclusions at a jump. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. vii. 257 Newton thus applies this apparently remote fact to the blue of the sky. 1869Ouseley Counterp. xxiii. 181 The student is strongly recommended not to modulate..into extremely remote keys in this style of composition.
b. Of causes, operations, effects, etc.
1620T. Granger Div. Logike 49 Cause, is neere, or remote, id est, further of. 1664Power Exp. Philos. ii. 192 It is but a sensible expression of Effects, dependent on the same (though more remote) Causes. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 90 That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 559 Proximate and remote causes are rather terms of recent, than of ancient writers. 1844Thirlwall Greece VIII. 59 They had not foreseen how the remoter consequences would affect their own safety. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ix. (1879) 415 The remoter effects which our actions are likely to have [etc.].
†c. Far-fetched; unusual. Obs. rare.
1670Dryden Tempest Pref., As his Fancy was quick, so likewise were the Products of it remote and new. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Dryden Wks. II. 386 Words too familiar or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
d. Not closely related by blood or kinship.
1760Foote Minor i. Wks. 1799 I. 239, I will..trust for the support of my name and family to a remoter branch. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. I. 421 Family alliances, near or remote, which either already existed, or were now concluded. 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. xvii. (1876) IV. 96 John was a remote kinsman of the Ducal house.
†5. Antecedent; ultimate. Obs. rare.
1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. iii, 'Twere absurd To think that nature in the earth bred gold Perfect in the instant: Something went before. There must be remote matter. 1697tr. Burgersdicius' Logic ii. vi. 21 The remote Matter of Syllogism are three Terms, to wit, two Extremes, major and minor,..and one Middle.
6. Slight, faint. In later use esp. not the remotest, not the slightest, not the least (idea, etc.); also ellipt.
1711Addison Spect. No. 119 ⁋5 Every thing that had the most remote Appearance of being obscene. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 225 One of the standing figures has no remote resemblance to some of the effigies of Erasmus. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 31 It had a bearing—remote indeed, but real—on what is being done now. 1864Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 228 What I have done to deserve all that love I haven't the remotest conception. 1928D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club xvii. 205 ‘Was the quantity marked on the bottle?’ ‘I haven't the remotest. You'd better ask her.’ 1969E. Stewart Heads (1970) 94 ‘Why do you think he was trailing Father Fields?’ ‘I haven't the remotest,’ Greg said.
†7. Ulterior. Obs. rare—1.
1736Butler Anal. i. iii. 74 Good offices will be done him, from regard to his character, without remote views.
B. n.
a. A remote descendant.
b. A remote region. nonce-uses.
c1653G. Daniel Idyll i. 41 'Twas Shame First taught vs cloths; we peccant, put a blame To each Remote! 1838S. Bellamy Betrayal 15 It was a drear and mountainous remote, as earth's last fugitive retreat it were.
c. U.S. Broadcasting. An outside broadcast (see quots.). Cf. nemo.
1937Amer. Speech XII. 100 A remote pickup or simply a remote means a program brought from some point other than station studios. 1937, etc. [see nemo]. 1947Billboard 1 Nov. 17 First Remote on War Dead's Arrival... What is believed to be the first video broadcast by a remote unit from a moving object will be essayed tomorrow. 1962Sat. Rev. 1 Sept. 17/2 Accent is not only a low-budget show; it is a ‘remote’. A ‘remote’ shoots on location with video⁓cruiser facilities, as distinct from a studio show. 1967Boston Globe 30 Mar. 3/1 CBS said in future days Cronkite may be seen in some news remotes while Zenker remains at the desk. 1976Listener 15 July 53/1 ‘Remotes’ are what American television technicians call outside broadcasts.
C. adv. In comb. with a ppl. forming an adj., = remotely adv. 2 b.
1943, etc. Remote-controlled [see sense A. 3 f above]. 1959H. Barnes Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. iv. 200 Various systems could be devised, some complicated and expensive using remote-indicating compasses, but we have merely mounted an ordinary liquid compass in the field of view of the camera. 1976–7Sea Spray (N.Z.) Dec./Jan. 94 The unit is available either directly mounted to a Borg-Warner marine reverse transmission unit or remote mounted and coupled to engine or reverse gear by a universal joint shaft.
Add:[A.] [3.] [c indigo][f.][/c] remote sensing, the automatic acquisition of information about the surface of the earth or another planet from a (great) distance, as carried out from satellites and high-flying aircraft (cf. sensing vbl. n. 2 b); freq. attrib. See also *remote control n. (Further examples.)
1962Proc. 1st Symposium Remote Sensing Environment 130 We will then have a series of remote sensing records made over this volcano up until the time she erupts and after she erupts. 1986Sci. Amer. Jan. 28/1 Remote sensing includes not only ordinary photoreconnaissance,..but also the imaging of the earth's surface.
[4.] e. Of a person: seemingly set apart or distant from others in manner; withdrawn, reserved; aloof.
1894H. James Death of Lion in Yellow Bk. I. 19 Paraday, still absent, remote, made no answer, as if he had not heard the question. 1929J. B. Priestley Good Companions iii. ii. 487 Miss Trant seemed so dreamy and remote these days that she was considered unapproachable for the time being. 1952R. C. Hutchinson Recoll. Journey ii. 16, I had feared but scarcely disliked him: he was too remote to be disliked. 1988E. Young-Bruehl Anna Freud ii. 92 Max was remote and depressed after his wife's death.
[B.] 2. ellipt. for *remote control n. (now usu. in sense 2).
1966M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xxv. 181 Dr Chapman worked out a gadget which drip-feeds pentothal automatically... We switched it off by remote five minutes ago. 1977Weekly Times (Melbourne) 19 Jan. 54/4 (Advt.), John Deere 420 Crawler, 40 h.p. Remotes, PTO, tracks in good condition. Motor sound. 1984Sears Catal. 1985 Spring–Summer 940 Record-A-Call 675 has a remote with toll saver that doesn't just retrieve messages but changes outgoing announcements, even erases or accumulates messages. 1987Q Oct. 85/2 You can do other selection tricks, programming up to 32 tracks from six discs yourself, choosing tracks from the remote and having your choice confirmed in its readout.
▪ II. † reˈmote, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. ppl. stem of L. removēre: cf. prec.]
trans. To remove.
1600Tourneur Transf. Metamorph. xxvi, Because she..did remote Her heart from heau'n's book, where her name was wrote. |