remoteadj.n.adv.

Brit.

/rᵻˈməʊt/, U.S.

/rəˈmoʊt/,

/riˈmoʊt/

Forms: late Middle English– remote, 1500s–1600s remoate, 1600s remoat.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin remōtus.

Etymology: < classical Latin remōtus distant in space or time, out of the way, recondite, far removed in nature or function, alien, unrelated, retired, secluded, far-fetched, in post-classical Latin also (of matter) essential, fundamental, ultimate (14th cent.; also remotissimus , superlative form), use as adjective of past participle of removēre remove v. Compare Middle French, French †remot (1362), Catalan remot (1290), Spanish remoto (15th cent.), Portuguese remoto (15th cent.), Italian remoto (1308). With use as noun compare classical Latin remōtum remote place, use as noun of neuter of remōtus.

A. adj.

a. Of two or more things or (occasionally) persons: placed or situated at a distance or interval from each other; separated; far apart. Now only in sense A. 1b.

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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > placed or kept at a distance > from each other

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tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) vi. 47 (MED) If ther be treen, vpstocke hem by the roote, Her oon, ther oon, to leue afer remote [L. raro relictis] I holde hit good.

a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 70 (MED) By Justice is made meke terrible thynges, and thynges remote approchen neygh [L. appropinquat remotum].

1601 W. Shakespeare Phoenix & Turtle in R. Chester Loves Martyr 171 Hearts remote, yet not asunder.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 16/1 They ought..not..to stand nearer or more remote than Use and Necessity requires.

b. Chiefly Botany. Of parts of an organism, as flowers, leaves, etc.: set at a distance from each other; widely spaced.

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1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 381 Remota, remote, placed at some Distance from each other.

1831 W. J. Hooker in Bot. Misc. 2 394 Whole plant rather flaccid; stem tetragonous, with remote leaves.

1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 204 In Aulopora the somewhat remote corallites are connected by means of a basal creeping cœnenchyma.

1907 R. B. Hough Handbk. Trees Northern States & Canada 13 Leaves in remote clusters of 2..more or less curved and distributed along the branchlet.

1960 Amer. Midland Naturalist 63 29 The plants from Costa Rica..have much more remote leaves..and a more robust size than the most luxuriant Floridian plants.

2001 Internat. Jrnl. Plant Sci. 162 630/2 The rhizomes of the triploid were short creeping with closely arranged leaves.., while those of the tetraploid were long creeping with remote leaves.

a. With from. Far, distant; removed, set apart. Frequently figurative.

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tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ii. 313 (MED) Bitter yf they be, this be their boote: Thre fyngris from the stook the lond remote [L. circumfosso stipite tribus digitis a radice], Let make a kaue ille humour out to swete.

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Cosmogr. ii, in Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. B.i^v He wes so astonist be mony terrible & greuus plagis appering..[in] Egipt, that he thoucht na thing sa gud nor proffitable, as to be maist remote & distant thairfra.

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxxi. sig. I.iv ^v Thus may ye also finde how muche any one marke is higher or lower than an other, although they be far a sunder, & either of them remote from you by comparing their altitudes, [etc.].

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cv. 27 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 163 Soe remote from wrong of meaner hand That kings for them did sharp rebuke endure.

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. I2 The nigher it is to the flame, the more remote (ther's a word, remote) the more remote it is from the frost.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. iv. 177 If a Pistol be shot off in a head remote from the eye of a pit, it will give but a little report.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 82 That was the remotest thing from their Thoughts that could be imagin'd.

1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 143 Remote from towns he ran his godly race.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. ii. 57 The lake lay so remote from the immediate way to Naples.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. vii. 217 The principle of actions often lies remote from the actions themselves.

1844 Paxton's Mag. Bot. 11 34 Now the horizontal, cellular, rayey masses, appear..rather more remote from the central pith.

1883 Macmillan's Mag. May 67/2 Nothing was too small nor too apparently remote from the main studies of his life to..be without interest for him.

1927 A. Huxley Proper Stud. 207 The earliest philosophies and religions may seem intellectually very remote from ourselves.

1966 A. MacLean When Eight Bells Toll iv. 72 After deflating and caching the dinghy..I'd set off along the shoreline remote from the village of Torbay.

2004 New Yorker 6 Dec. 114 What Dunsany liked about gods was their empyrean vantage point, remote from the world and amused by human striving.

b. With from. Different, divergent, separate; at variance with or contrary to.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense A. 2a.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > very different from

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1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 600 Anger and favour be farre remote one from the other; so is choler and bitter gall much different from mildnesse and benevolence.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xii. 8 Annot.) 68/2 Passing by all these, as remote from the meaning of the place.

1675 W. Penn England's Present Interest 6 There cannot well be anything more remote from Arbitrariness.

1758 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 4) IV. 168 So remote were they in this respect from the character of the ancient Greeks.

1788 T. Reid Aristotle's Logic iv. §5. 89 Conclusions may be drawn very remote from the first principles.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 415 That this calculation was not remote from the truth we have abundant proof.

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 140 These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface.

1917 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 1 241 It is remote from my purpose, and would unduly expand this article, to discuss the methods of handling translation in the classroom.

1959 T. T. Macan Guide Freshwater Invertebr. Animals 37 Tardigrada..are often included with the Arachnids because they have four pairs of legs, though their real affinities are probably elsewhere and almost certainly remote from any known group.

c. With to. Unfamiliar as if through distance; foreign, alien.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > distinct

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1615 T. Jackson Iustifying Faith i. vi. 49 This Assent vnto diuine matters..as perpetually good, is a more essentiall part of Christian faith, then the acknowledgement of their truth, which is a difference proper to an orthodoxall professor of Christianity, but remote to a faithfull man or true Christian.

1689 Exact Acct. Trial between W. Pritchard & T. Papillon 4 This is foreign and remote to my Business, to be concerned in such a Matter as this, it will seem very strange for me to do it.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 39 I was gotten into an Employment quite remote to my Genius, and directly contrary to the Life I delighted in.

1734 Patriot 6 Our weekly Trumpeters of Sedition, who..have constantly, tho' never so remote and foreign to the treasonable or Republican Subject in hand, hooked in something..relating to the Excise-Scheme.

1834 Metropolitan May 4 It is of an origin almost infinitely remote to the human comprehension.

1933 Pop. Mech. June 834/1 Directly over your head, science is still exploring a physical world that is as remote to most of us as the frozen waste of the Antarctic.

1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 23 Nov. r10/2 [Tests] must be..regularly updated to exclude experiences and language that have become remote to the rapidly changing world of the seven-year-old.

a. Of a country, region, etc.: situated at a great distance; far away; (of a person or a people) inhabiting a far away country (now rare).

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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective]

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1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. 149/36 Na irksumnes of remote and fer sege [L. taedium longinquae oppugnationis]..may remove [sc. our army]..quhil the toun be won.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. iv. sig. Ee8 So forth she rode,..Searching all lands and each remotest part.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 31 To grace the Gentry of a Land remote .

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 425 By home-bred Robbers, and remote Savages; five times stripd to the skin.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 78 Our Posterity may come by Glasses to out-see the Sun, and Discover Bodies in the remote Universe.

1683 Britanniæ Speculum 118 To spread its bright Beams upon this remote and frozen Island of Britain.

1726 J. Swift (title) Travels into several remote nations of the world,..by Lemuel Gulliver.

a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) iii. xii. 481 Marc Paul..travelled into those remote regions as far as the capital and court of Cublai Chan.

1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 81 Once remotest nations came To adore that sacred flame.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. Introd. p. xl Volunteers from the remotest parts of Christendom.

1880 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (new ed.) Introd. 1 As we gaze into these depths [of space] still remoter and feebler twinkling points appear.

1939 Fortune Oct. 5 (advt.) Wherever loads are hauled today, in the remote corners of the world or just around the corner from you, truck men are proud to say, ‘It's an International!’

1993 Guardian 4 Oct. ii. 34/4 The theory that there are millions or billions of remote icy worlds milling slowly around in the so-called Kuiper belt beyond Neptune.

b. Of a place, house, etc.: situated away from the main centres of population or society; free of or cut off from the features of civilization or industrialization; secluded; unspoilt; (of a person or a people) inhabiting or located in such a place.Formerly also: †(of a room) set apart from the main part of a building (obsolete).

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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective] > devoted to retirement or seclusion

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1549 E. Somerset et al. Let. 24 June in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1583) II. 1302/1 Within that your cathedral church, there be as yet the Apostles masse, and our Ladies masse..vsed in priuate chappels and other remote places of the same, and not in the Chauncell.

1563 Proclam. Elizabeth I consyderyng Newhauen 1 Aug. (single sheet) Her Maiestie earnestly requireth..the principall officers..of all Cities..to prouide some remote places, where the..poore and sicke persons may be seperated from conuersation with other beyng whole.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 30 Places remote enough are in Bohemia, There..leaue it crying.

a1667 A. Cowley Agriculture in Wks. (1710) II. 725 The Company was gone Into a Room remote.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 309 I sent..one of the three..to my Cave, where they were remote enough, and out of Danger of being heard or discover'd.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 117 With few associates, in remote And silent woods I wander.

1815 P. B. Shelley in E. Dowden Life Shelley (1887) I. l. 522 Whether there is in any remote and solitary situation a house to let for a time.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. i. 3 The path they had selected was remote and tranquil.

1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. i. 4 The place is remote and the living therefore cheap.

1924 C. Crowell in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories (1925) 31 A boy brought up..on a remote farm works out his own jumbled ideas on social laws.

1969 Listener 30 Jan. 155/2 How destructive, physically and socially, the culture-contacts with these remote peoples could be.

1972 G. Friel Mr Alfred M. A. xvii. 104 The bens and glens and lochs, the sheep and highland cattle, the remote cottage and the blue sky over all.

1997 Trail May 10/1 Mountain marathoners..who get their kicks by running around some of the most remote areas in the country..during the depths of winter.

c. Distant in time; esp. of or belonging to the distant past; ancient.

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the world > time > duration > [adjective] > distant or remote

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1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 97 Vnto Euil-merodach, succeeded Beshazzar his Sonne, called also the Sonne of Nebuchadnetzar, a tearme given commonly to successors, though far remote.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Rr3^v That force of Eloquence and perswasion, hath made thinges future, and remote, appeare as present.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 273. ¶12 Æneas [was] the remote Founder of Rome.

1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 492 When remote futurity is brought Before the keen inquiry of her thought.

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 15 The antiseptic qualities of smoke were known to remotest antiquity.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 165 The inheritance of disease or character from a remote ancestor.

1928 J. K. Folsom Culture & Social Progr. xvi. 430 [Liberty] is necessary not only for present happiness, but for progress toward..greater happiness in the remote future.

1956 Econ. Bot. 10 25/1 Recovery of oil from the kernels has been practiced since remote times by the time-honored method of roasting.

1997 Chicago Tribune 5 Oct. i. 1/3 [Dinosaurs] provide invaluable material for research into the Earth's remote past.

d. Denoting the distance of one thing in relation to another. Chiefly in comparative and superlative.

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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > more distant

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a1652 S. Foster Elliptical Horologiography (1654) 180 All the other points on the remoter side of the proper 12, must go the contrary way.

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 132 In Acornes..the germ puts [printed pnts] forth at the remotest part of the pulp.

1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy ii. 109 The Seed-Branch..never strikes through the Stone into the Coats of the Seed directly, but above its Cone or remoter end.

1784 G. Wakefield Enq. Opinions Christian Writers I. ii. §ii. 277 The Women's Apartments, which were always situated in the remoter Side of the House.

1792–3 T. Jefferson Direct. Building Great Clock in J. Catanzariti Papers (1997) XXVII. 839 A circle of 12 I. radius round the center of the hour circle, will barely cover the remotest point of the works.

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xxiv. 111 For our separate use, good friend, We'll hold this hut's remoter end.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables i. 18 With such a tramp of his ponderous riding-boots as might of itself have been audible in the remotest of the seven gables, he advanced to the door.

1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iv. §26 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.

1941 R. Headstrom Adventures with Microscope xl. 148 In these creatures the air itself is conveyed to the remotest tissues by means of an elaborate system of branching air-tubes called tracheæ.

e. With reference to technical apparatus and processes: situated, occurring, or performed at a distance (not necessarily great), with no physical connection or contact. Cf. telecommand n., teleprocessing n. at tele- comb. form 1a.See also remote sensing n. at Compounds, remote control n. 2.

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1903 U.S. Patent 732,255 1/1 My invention relates to the construction of switches for high-tension circuits,..as also to the mechanism for operating the switches by remote control.

1931 Proc. IRE 19 461 The electric field of a Hertzian dipole can be divided into three parts, designated as the near-by field, the transition field, and the remote field.

1956 Nature 28 Jan. 160/2 The remote-handling device for removal of the collectors containing the enriched product without exposure to air.

1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production iii. 28 (caption) Lens turret,..rotated by rear handle..or remote switching.

1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing vi. 96 In remote processing, input and output goes via communication lines.

1989 UnixWorld Sept. 125/2 uunet does give subscribers..gateways that provide electronic mail, batch file transfer, and remote log-in services.

2020 GlobeNewswire (Nexis) 10 Mar. To help organizations deal with the reality of the coronavirus outbreak and maintain ongoing activity by providing their employees with remote access to corporate resources.

f. Making use of communications technology to enable activities to be carried out away from premises traditionally or usually used for the purpose; esp. designating work done at home rather than in an office, with technology used to submit work and communicate and meet with colleagues; designating a person who works in this way.Originally in educational contexts.

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1956 T. C. Capraro Study of Learning & Attitudes AFROTC Cadets in Closed-circuit Instructional Television Program (D.Ed. thesis, Pennsylvania State Univ.) 48 The instructor's ability to question students in the remote classes received favorable comment.

1970 Res. Managem. 13 12 To this end, experimentation is proceeding with 2.5 gHz equipment together with leased telephone lines for talkback purposes which enables the remote student to really function as a part of the class.

1997 Creative Technol.gy May 36/3 One of the by-products of remote working is that desks are left empty and this has given rise to the uncomfortable phrase ‘hot desking’.

2012 Atlantic July 34/1 Remote workers and digital nomads come together in virtual teams..to tackle projects.

2020 Northwich Guardian (Nexis) 27 Apr. This remote performance was a wonderful way to pay tribute to the NHS and key workers.

2020 @mizingamelu 24 May in twitter.com (accessed 3 June 2020) Effective remote working will become a new normal as Businesses struggle with office space and social distancing.

†4. Strange, unusual; far-fetched, outlandish, bizarre. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > bizarre

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1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. i. 15 Quha may sikkerlie afferme sa remote & vncouth historie?

1600 C. G. Minte of Deformities sig. B Vnfit conceipts shipt from the Persians, all christians hating Pagan fantasies, Remote attires of the Graesians, are enterteynd as solemne cerimonies.

1651 N. Culverwell Spiritual Opticks 5 This remote and far-fetcht way of knowledge.

1670 J. Dryden in J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest Pref. sig. A3 As his fancy was quick, so likewise were the products of it remote and new.

1770 T. Percy tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. I. xiii. 395 They took their metaphors from other subjects, which were commonly very far-fetched and remote.

1779 S. Johnson Dryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 191 Words too familiar or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.

a. Of a cause, effect, etc.: indirect. Opposed to immediate or proximate.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > of or relating to types of cause > remote or not immediate

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1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors i. f. 3^v The second cause efficient, is double, either remote that is to saye, farre of, or next of al. The farther cause of them as of all other natural effectes, are the same, the sonne, with y^e other planetes and sterres, and the very heauen it selfe in which they are moued.

1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints iii. f. 41^v Such causes as they be, be called remote, as it were to farre of: so they bee also idle and of no operation of them selues, without sume other to set them a worke.

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 49 Cause, is neere, or remote, id est, further of.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 192 It is but a sensible expression of Effects, dependent on the same (though more remote) Causes.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 90 That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 40 Proximate and remote causes are rather terms of recent than of ancient writers.

1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. 59 They had not foreseen how the remoter consequences would affect their own safety.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ix. 415 The remoter effects which our actions are likely to have [etc.].

1940 Amer. Hist. Rev. 45 591 He finds..any present situation is the immediate result of the immediate past situation and the remote result of all past situations.

1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Jan. i. a Her ‘death is too remote a consequence of the parole officers' action to hold them responsible’ under federal civil rights law, [the court said].

2008 M. R. Cilio et al. in J. Engel et al. Epilepsy ccxxviii. 2323/1 A severe epileptic disorder..with no identifiable immediate or remote cause.

b. Indirectly related to or connected with something; not having an immediate bearing or effect on another thing; seemingly unconnected.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > [adjective] > immediate or direct > not immediate

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1586 S. Bredwell Detection E. Glouers Hereticall Confection ii. 98 As though a decree were not rather directly of such thinges as shoulde bee brought to passe, the things incident thereto, hauing a more remote consideration.

1599 T. Blundeville 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.

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 104 Note that these middles haue contrariety in them in the remisse, or remote degree.

1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 188 I would distinguish them from remoter providences.

1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 357 A Soul, that disperses it self upon all remote Actions, and applys it self properly to nothing.

1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind i. i. 43 The external thing is the remote or mediate object.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 220 Their nimble nonsense takes a shorter course,..And gains remote conclusions at a jump.

1825 Oriental Herald 8 287 The manners and customs of the strange nations he visits..bear a relation more or less remote to the hero of the narrative.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. vii. 257 Newton thus applies this apparently remote fact to the blue of the sky.

1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint xxiii. 181 The student is strongly recommended not to modulate..into extremely remote keys in this style of composition.

1952 Musical Q. 38 521 Here is established a very intimate reciprocation between melody and harmony, in that both connect remote relations to the tonality into a perfect unity.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 12 Aug. 321/1 This physiological action might be more remote or indirect, operating at a higher level of organization in the central nervous system.

2007 Times (Nexis) 20 Oct. (Mag. section) 79 When it comes to shoes, the high street is..not good... ‘Patents’ that peel after two outings, anorexic soles, comfort not even a remote factor.

c. Distant in kinship or blood; not closely related. Cf. removed adj. 2a.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [adjective] > not related

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1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. E4^v A stranger both remoat in blood, And in his hart oppos'd my enemy.

1613 J. Heath tr. P. Du Moulin Accomplishm. Prophecies i. 41 The Pope..hath forbidden it [sc. marriage] betweene Cosen germans, and their children, and those which are remote even to the fourth degree.

1760 S. Foote Minor i. 27 I will..trust for the support of my name and family to a remoter branch.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 421 Family alliances, near or remote, which either already existed, or were now concluded.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xvii. 96 John was a remote kinsman of the ducal house.

1907 ‘M. Twain’ Christian Sci. ii. i. 79 I was never able to refrain from mentioning..that in a remote branch of my family there exists a claimant to an earldom.

1938 Amer. Anthropologist 40 119 Unity..founded upon a community of interests arising from near or remote degrees of kinship between its members.

2005 Observer 14 Aug. (Review section) 17/2 His remote descendants, according to Barnes, include Mountbattens and others close to the Windsor dynasty.

d. Of a person: seemingly set apart or distant from others in manner; withdrawn, reserved; aloof. Also of a person's expression, manner, etc.

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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [adjective] > detached or non-participating

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1775 J. Howie Biographia Scoticana 385 Some time before this, it is said, he was very remote and spoke very little in company.

1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 63/1 We become remote, indifferent, serenely unambitious, largely incurious.

1894 H. James Death of Lion in Yellow Bk. 1 19 Paraday, still absent, remote, made no answer, as if he had not heard the question.

1914 T. Bailey Contrary Mary xxi. 324 Cousin Patty's manner was remote.

1962 O. Manning Spoilt City v. 54 His neat, Napoleonic face had taken on a remote expression intended to conceal annoyance.

1988 E. Young-Bruehl Anna Freud ii. 92 Max was remote and depressed after his wife's death.

2006 P. Woit Not even Wrong xi. 159 He is remote and unapproachable, so that those who desire to make his acquaintance are well advised to undertake an arduous course of preparation.

†6. Intentionally concealed; ulterior. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adjective]

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1601 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Martij 1600 sig. D6^v You seemed by his wordes to haue indaungered his body, as beeing a remote motiue to that his action.

1615 T. Jackson Iustifying Faith iii. vii. 321 Their slender vncertaine hopes, or remote interest in promotion.

1708 D. Defoe Memorial to Nobility Scotl. 15 The Nobility of Scotland would act like themselves, and make their Election intirely free from any remote View of Interest or Prejudices.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 53 Good offices will be done him, from Regard to his Character without remote Views.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xiii. 84 What long-reaching selfishness is my brother govern'd by! By what remote, exceedingly remote views!

7. Philosophy. Of matter: constituting the material cause of a thing (see cause n. 5); (also) basic, primary, fundamental, ultimate. Now chiefly historical.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective]

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1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. iv. sig. C3 Wee admit..the distinction, by which he [sc. Aristotle] diuideth his beginnings, namely, into the first matter, into the simple matter, and into that which is remote, enduring all alterations of formes, or wherein there is power to bee made subiect to all formes.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E^v 'Twere absurd To think that Nature, in the earth, bred Gold Perfect i'the instant. Something went before. There must be remote Matter.

1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica ii. vi. 21 The remote Matter of Syllogism are three Terms, to wit, two Extremes, major and minor,..and one Middle.

1717 Hist. Acct. Hungary iii. 82 The Vapours rising from the Blood of those Victims..was the remote Matter which gave Fire to the Lightening of the Malcontents.

1733 I. Watts Philos. Ess. xi. §ii. 263 The proxime Matter of a Book is its Leaves printed with Words, bound up in Covers: but Paper and Printer's Ink are the remote Matter of it.

1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. iv. ii. 35 Wine is the remote matter of the Eucharist.

1902 J. M. Baldwin et al. Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 52 Matter of composition, or proximate matter, is that of which a thing consists; matter of generation, or remote matter, that from which it is developed, as a seed or egg.

1988 T. Irwin Aristotle's First Princ. (1990) ii. xi. 242 The vital activities of the creature realize the functional properties of its proximate matter, not the physical properties of the remote matter. The soul is the essence of the proximate, not the remote, matter.

8. Slight, faint. In later use frequently (colloquial) in not to have the remotest: not to have the slightest idea, chance, etc.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > slight

brief1432

ride?a1500

nice1561

remote1625

slim1671

faint1726

slightish1761

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > be ignorant [phrase] > know nothing

to say (also know) neither buff nor stye?a1750

to know little (or nothing) and care less1783

not to know beans1833

not to have the remotest1864

(not) to know from nothing1933

not to know shit from Shinolaa1948

1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe i. vii. 59 Whiles the delight or solace which men take in sensuall pleasures exceeds..all sense or feeling of any spirituall ioy: they cannot but wish to exchange their remote hopes of the one, for quiet fruition of the other.

a1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. (1675) ii. vii. 374 Other things may be said to have some remote resemblance to the Deity; but man only amongst the visible creatures, is capable of those more immediate communications from him, by Religion.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 119. ¶5 Every thing that had the most remote Appearance of being obscene.

1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper II. ii. vi. 102 He was too sanguine in his opinion to give it up, while there was the remotest possibility on his side.

1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 225 One of the standing figures has no remote resemblance to some of the effigies of Erasmus.

1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 228 What I have done to deserve all that love I haven't the remotest conception.

1875 Appleton's Jrnl. 7 Aug. 163/3 ‘Don't you know who your unknown Nora is?’ asked Mamie... ‘I haven't the remotest idea,’ he said, carelessly.

1928 D. 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.’

1956 K. M. Bell Some Useful Hints Pract. Surv. 9 If the instrument has been set up correctly and is in proper adjustment, the chances of any errors being made are extremely remote.

1969 E. Stewart Heads (1970) 94 ‘Why do you think he was trailing Father Fields?’ ‘I haven't the remotest,’ Greg said.

2002 Daily Mirror 31 May 25/3 Insiders say the show will sink even the remotest hope he might have had of being accepted back into polite society.

B. n.

†1.

a. A remote place or region. Frequently in plural. Obsolete.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > remote descendant

remote1568

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > remote or outlying area

nookc1480

out-country1639

outland1645

remoteness1694

backwoods1709

back county1775

remote1838

Mountains of the Moon1852

nowhere1871

the sticks1899

way back1901

downstate1905

back o' Bourke1918

far-back1926

woop woop1926

boohai?1946

bundu1946

Dogpatch1946

outback1954

toolies1961

upstate1965

Watford1973

1568 Skelton's Colyn Cloute (new ed.) in Wks. sig. Q.iiii^v Some wil neyther golde ne grotes Some pluck a partrich in remotes.

1678 J. Leanerd Rambling Justice Prol. sig. A2 The Women thus grown out of Favour too, Must in Remotes begin and trade a new.

1795 Let. from Chancellor 87 Hail, my Bishops, go, go to the remotes of Iona and Lewis.

1838 S. Bellamy Betrayal 15 It was a drear and mountainous remote, as earth's last fugitive retreat it were.

b. A remote descendant. Obsolete. rare.

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1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vi. xxxii. 159 Though thy great-Grandsier, Grandsier, & thy Father wonne & wore The King-ring, which thy Father hild yeares thirtie eight and more, Though by the cappitall Remotes of Lancaster withstood, Yeat fayle prescription and discents, now lacke they but our blood.

c1653 G. Daniel Idyllia i. 41 'Twas Shame First taught vs cloths; we peccant, put a blame To each Remote!

2. Originally and chiefly U.S. Broadcasting. A radio or television programme or segment of a programme recorded or broadcast from a location outside a studio; = outside broadcast n. at outside n., adj., adv., and prep. Compounds. Cf. nemo n. and adj.

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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > types of

news bulletin1857

news summary1875

police message1886

newsflash1904

headline1908

play-by-play1909

feature1913

spot ad1916

magazine1921

news1923

time signal1923

outside broadcast1924

radiocast1924

amateur hour1925

bulletin1925

serial1926

commentary1927

rebroadcast1927

school broadcast1927

feature programme1928

trailer1928

hour1930

schools broadcast1930

show1930

spot advertisement1930

spot announcement1930

sustaining1931

flash1934

newscast1934

commercial1935

clambake1937

remote1937

repeat1937

snap1937

soap opera1939

sportcast1939

spot commercial1939

daytimer1940

magazine programme1941

season1942

soap1943

soaper1946

parade1947

public service announcement1948

simulcasting1949

breakfast-time television1952

call-in1952

talkathon1952

game show1953

kidvid1955

roundup1958

telenovela1961

opt-out1962

miniseries1963

simulcast1964

soapie1964

party political1966

novela1968

phone-in1968

sudser1968

schools programme1971

talk-in1971

God slot1972

roadshow1973

trail1973

drama-doc1977

informercial1980

infotainment1980

infomercial1981

kideo1983

talk-back1984

indie1988

omnibus1988

teleserye2000

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1937 Amer. Speech 12 100 A remote pickup or simply a remote means a program brought from some point other than station studios.

1947 Billboard 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.

1967 Boston Globe 30 Mar. 3/1 CBS said in future days Cronkite may be seen in some news remotes while Zenker remains at the desk.

2000 Jrnl. Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Nexis) 22 Sept. 716 The primary goal of a promotional remote is to generate traffic and interest in the radio station and its sponsors.

3. Short for remote control n. 2b.

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1965 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Tribune 8 Dec. c8/4 (advt.) You buy a set... You can have remote control when you buy or anytime later on. And 4 remotes to choose from.

1984 Sears, Roebuck Catal. 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.

1990 R. Doyle Snapper (1993) 69 What's on, Sharon? Top o' the Pops, said Sharon. Oh good shite! said Jimmy Sr. Where's the remote?

2007 Ebony (Nexis) July 90 Requiring reading time encourages kids to get into the habit of reading for entertainment instead of reaching for the remote.

C. adv.

1. Remotely; from or at a distance; away from centres of population. Frequently poetic. Now rare.

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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] > at or to a distance

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farc900

longOE

afarc1300

yond13..

on length1340

alonga1382

adreigha1393

on dreicha1400

afar offc1400

far-aboutc1450

alengtha1500

distantlya1500

remote1589

remotely1609

yferrea1643

out of his (her, its, etc.) way1650

adistance1807

away1818

way1833

way off1836

way out1840

1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxvi. 107 The holy Hermit..prayed them to fast, to watch, and pray, And liue remote from worldlie men.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 477 Thir rising all at once was as the sound Of Thunder heard remote .

1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 134 Living very remote at Springfield.

1781 J. Morison in Sc. Paraphr. xxi. 1 Attend ye tribes that dwell remote; ye tribes at hand give ear.

2000 Manuf. Home Constr. & Safety Standards (U.S. Dept. Housing & Urban Developm.) xx. 111/1 Manufactured homes shall have a minimum of two exterior doors located remote from each other.

2. Combined with a present or past participle forming an adjective, or less commonly a verb in the past tense: = remotely adv. 2b. Cf. remote-controlled adj.

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1904 Chicago Electr. Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers) 44 The six-phase regulators are of the induction type remote controlled.

1913 P. Laubach tr. R. Edler Switches & Switchgear 374 (heading) Remote control and remote indicating devices.

1927 U.S. Patent 267,583 3/1 The combination gives a remote indicating thermometer.

1979 J. P. Hogan Two Faces of Tomorrow ix. 95 Similar considerations ruled out putting remote-triggered destructive devices into the primary node centers of the net.

1995 Gourmet Mar. 54/2 (advt.) Remote-activated memory seats that adjust themselves before you ever open the [car] door.

1997 I. Rankin Black & Blue (1998) xiii. 177 He grabbed his briefcase and cellphone, remote-locked the car and set its alarm.

2006 Stuff Feb. 45/2 Generally accessed via a remote-entered hack or occasionally with a quick solder job.

Compounds

remote flowered adj. Botany (of a plant, flower spike, etc.) having flowers which are sparse or widely spaced; frequently in the names of plants.

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1787 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (ed. 11) 603/1 Amaryllis,..Cape remote flowered.

1865 W. H. Harvey & O. W. Sonder Flora Capensis III. 601 Flowers disposed into an elongated remote-flowered spike.

1867 J. T. B. Syme Sowerby's Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) VII. 163 Statice Bahusiensis... Remote-flowered Sea Lavender.

1907 Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 12 394 Slender, glabrate, remote-flowered plants, with thin ovate roughened leaves.

2000 C. L. Withner Cattleyas & Relatives VI. ii. 125 (heading) Remote-flowered Encyclia.

remote locking n. a feature on a motor vehicle which allows doors to be locked and unlocked by means of remote control; cf. Plip n.²

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1962 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 15 May 24/1 Coming also is the car door that will open without the usual manual struggle. Remote locking..has paved the way.

2009 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 6 Mar. All versions have an electronic stability programme, air conditioning, four electric windows, remote locking and six airbags.

remote sensing n. sensing (sensing n. 2b) of something not immediately adjacent to the sensor; spec. the automatic acquisition of information about the surface of the earth or another planet from a distance, as carried out from satellites and high-flying aircraft.

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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > [noun] > remote sensing

remote sensing1958

the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > [adjective] > remote sensing

remote sensing1958

1958 U.S. Patent 2,847,636 5 A lead taken..to the negative side of the load so as to eliminate lead drop by providing remote sensing. Thus the voltage error may be sensed at any point.

1962 Proc. 1st Symp. 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.

1986 Sci. Amer. Jan. 28/1 Remote sensing includes not only ordinary photoreconnaissance,..but also the imaging of the earth's surface.

1997 Science 10 Jan. 198/2 Terrestrial-based remote sensing studies..indicate that Mercury has a silicate crust.

2007 Nature 22 Feb. 830/1 The largest subglacial lakes can also be detected using remote sensing.

remote sensor n. a device or instrument used for remote sensing.

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1961 Brit. Patent 879,756 1/2 On failure of the remote sensor..the pilot can find the required information displayed at the same familiar point on his panel.

1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Oct. c1 Voyager identified some of the [Jovian] atmosphere's composition with remote sensors.

2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 520/1 Scientists use an expansive network of wireless remote sensors to measure everything from barometric shifts..to the number of times a willow flycatcher returns to its nest.

remote viewer n. Parapsychology a person who practises remote viewing; a clairvoyant.

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1974 Nature 18 Oct. 606/1 The judges were asked to match the nine locations..against the typed manuscripts of the tape-recorded narratives of the remote viewer.

2005 Time Out N.Y. 4 Aug. 63/4 Word is that during the Cold War the U. S. military used ‘remote viewers’, psychics who gathered intelligence on places they′d never seen.

remote viewing n. Parapsychology the supposed ability to see distant objects or events by means of extrasensory perception; clairvoyance.

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1974 Nature 18 Oct. 605/2 During the observation period, the remote-viewing subject would describe his impressions of the target site into a tape recorder.

2003 Fortean Times Nov. 68/2 Learn hypnotherapy at home for Past Life Regression, trance work, Remote Viewing, anxiety, phobia removal, performance enhancement.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	remote
释义	remoteadj.n.adv. Brit. /rᵻˈməʊt/, U.S. /rəˈmoʊt/, /riˈmoʊt/ Forms: late Middle English– remote, 1500s–1600s remoate, 1600s remoat. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin remōtus. Etymology: < classical Latin remōtus distant in space or time, out of the way, recondite, far removed in nature or function, alien, unrelated, retired, secluded, far-fetched, in post-classical Latin also (of matter) essential, fundamental, ultimate (14th cent.; also remotissimus , superlative form), use as adjective of past participle of removēre remove v. Compare Middle French, French †remot (1362), Catalan remot (1290), Spanish remoto (15th cent.), Portuguese remoto (15th cent.), Italian remoto (1308). With use as noun compare classical Latin remōtum remote place, use as noun of neuter of remōtus. A. adj. 1. a. Of two or more things or (occasionally) persons: placed or situated at a distance or interval from each other; separated; far apart. Now only in sense A. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > placed or kept at a distance > from each other remote?1440 clear1720 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) vi. 47 (MED) If ther be treen, vpstocke hem by the roote, Her oon, ther oon, to leue afer remote [L. raro relictis] I holde hit good. a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 70 (MED) By Justice is made meke terrible thynges, and thynges remote approchen neygh [L. appropinquat remotum]. 1601 W. Shakespeare Phoenix & Turtle in R. Chester Loves Martyr 171 Hearts remote, yet not asunder. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 16/1 They ought..not..to stand nearer or more remote than Use and Necessity requires. b. Chiefly Botany. Of parts of an organism, as flowers, leaves, etc.: set at a distance from each other; widely spaced. ΚΠ 1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 381 Remota, remote, placed at some Distance from each other. 1831 W. J. Hooker in Bot. Misc. 2 394 Whole plant rather flaccid; stem tetragonous, with remote leaves. 1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 204 In Aulopora the somewhat remote corallites are connected by means of a basal creeping cœnenchyma. 1907 R. B. Hough Handbk. Trees Northern States & Canada 13 Leaves in remote clusters of 2..more or less curved and distributed along the branchlet. 1960 Amer. Midland Naturalist 63 29 The plants from Costa Rica..have much more remote leaves..and a more robust size than the most luxuriant Floridian plants. 2001 Internat. Jrnl. Plant Sci. 162 630/2 The rhizomes of the triploid were short creeping with closely arranged leaves.., while those of the tetraploid were long creeping with remote leaves. 2. a. With from. Far, distant; removed, set apart. Frequently figurative. ΚΠ tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ii. 313 (MED) Bitter yf they be, this be their boote: Thre fyngris from the stook the lond remote [L. circumfosso stipite tribus digitis a radice], Let make a kaue ille humour out to swete. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Cosmogr. ii, in Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. B.i^v He wes so astonist be mony terrible & greuus plagis appering..[in] Egipt, that he thoucht na thing sa gud nor proffitable, as to be maist remote & distant thairfra. ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxxi. sig. I.iv ^v Thus may ye also finde how muche any one marke is higher or lower than an other, although they be far a sunder, & either of them remote from you by comparing their altitudes, [etc.]. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cv. 27 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 163 Soe remote from wrong of meaner hand That kings for them did sharp rebuke endure. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. I2 The nigher it is to the flame, the more remote (ther's a word, remote) the more remote it is from the frost. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. iv. 177 If a Pistol be shot off in a head remote from the eye of a pit, it will give but a little report. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 82 That was the remotest thing from their Thoughts that could be imagin'd. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 143 Remote from towns he ran his godly race. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. ii. 57 The lake lay so remote from the immediate way to Naples. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. vii. 217 The principle of actions often lies remote from the actions themselves. 1844 Paxton's Mag. Bot. 11 34 Now the horizontal, cellular, rayey masses, appear..rather more remote from the central pith. 1883 Macmillan's Mag. May 67/2 Nothing was too small nor too apparently remote from the main studies of his life to..be without interest for him. 1927 A. Huxley Proper Stud. 207 The earliest philosophies and religions may seem intellectually very remote from ourselves. 1966 A. MacLean When Eight Bells Toll iv. 72 After deflating and caching the dinghy..I'd set off along the shoreline remote from the village of Torbay. 2004 New Yorker 6 Dec. 114 What Dunsany liked about gods was their empyrean vantage point, remote from the world and amused by human striving. b. With from. Different, divergent, separate; at variance with or contrary to.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense A. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > very different from extravagant1601 remote1603 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 600 Anger and favour be farre remote one from the other; so is choler and bitter gall much different from mildnesse and benevolence. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xii. 8 Annot.) 68/2 Passing by all these, as remote from the meaning of the place. 1675 W. Penn England's Present Interest 6 There cannot well be anything more remote from Arbitrariness. 1758 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 4) IV. 168 So remote were they in this respect from the character of the ancient Greeks. 1788 T. Reid Aristotle's Logic iv. §5. 89 Conclusions may be drawn very remote from the first principles. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 415 That this calculation was not remote from the truth we have abundant proof. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 140 These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface. 1917 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 1 241 It is remote from my purpose, and would unduly expand this article, to discuss the methods of handling translation in the classroom. 1959 T. T. Macan Guide Freshwater Invertebr. Animals 37 Tardigrada..are often included with the Arachnids because they have four pairs of legs, though their real affinities are probably elsewhere and almost certainly remote from any known group. c. With to. Unfamiliar as if through distance; foreign, alien. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > distinct distincta1382 alienc1384 sundrya1393 alienate1533 several1533 particular1547 severable1548 different?a1560 distinguished1609 remote1615 discriminate1626 incoincident1636 discriminated1673 allogenous1842 1615 T. Jackson Iustifying Faith i. vi. 49 This Assent vnto diuine matters..as perpetually good, is a more essentiall part of Christian faith, then the acknowledgement of their truth, which is a difference proper to an orthodoxall professor of Christianity, but remote to a faithfull man or true Christian. 1689 Exact Acct. Trial between W. Pritchard & T. Papillon 4 This is foreign and remote to my Business, to be concerned in such a Matter as this, it will seem very strange for me to do it. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 39 I was gotten into an Employment quite remote to my Genius, and directly contrary to the Life I delighted in. 1734 Patriot 6 Our weekly Trumpeters of Sedition, who..have constantly, tho' never so remote and foreign to the treasonable or Republican Subject in hand, hooked in something..relating to the Excise-Scheme. 1834 Metropolitan May 4 It is of an origin almost infinitely remote to the human comprehension. 1933 Pop. Mech. June 834/1 Directly over your head, science is still exploring a physical world that is as remote to most of us as the frozen waste of the Antarctic. 1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 23 Nov. r10/2 [Tests] must be..regularly updated to exclude experiences and language that have become remote to the rapidly changing world of the seven-year-old. 3. a. Of a country, region, etc.: situated at a great distance; far away; (of a person or a people) inhabiting a far away country (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] sideOE fara1000 ferrenc1160 lungeteync1330 on dreicha1400 yondera1413 widec1425 roomc1443 lontaignec1450 remote1533 distant1549 remotedc1580 disloigned1596 discoasted1598 dissite1600 far-off1600 aloof1608 longinque1614 distantial1648 Atlantic1790 far-distant1793 far-away1816 far-apart1865 way off1871 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. 149/36 Na irksumnes of remote and fer sege [L. taedium longinquae oppugnationis]..may remove [sc. our army]..quhil the toun be won. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. iv. sig. Ee8 So forth she rode,..Searching all lands and each remotest part. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 31 To grace the Gentry of a Land remote . View more context for this quotation 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 425 By home-bred Robbers, and remote Savages; five times stripd to the skin. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 78 Our Posterity may come by Glasses to out-see the Sun, and Discover Bodies in the remote Universe. 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 118 To spread its bright Beams upon this remote and frozen Island of Britain. 1726 J. Swift (title) Travels into several remote nations of the world,..by Lemuel Gulliver. a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) iii. xii. 481 Marc Paul..travelled into those remote regions as far as the capital and court of Cublai Chan. 1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 81 Once remotest nations came To adore that sacred flame. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. Introd. p. xl Volunteers from the remotest parts of Christendom. 1880 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (new ed.) Introd. 1 As we gaze into these depths [of space] still remoter and feebler twinkling points appear. 1939 Fortune Oct. 5 (advt.) Wherever loads are hauled today, in the remote corners of the world or just around the corner from you, truck men are proud to say, ‘It's an International!’ 1993 Guardian 4 Oct. ii. 34/4 The theory that there are millions or billions of remote icy worlds milling slowly around in the so-called Kuiper belt beyond Neptune. b. Of a place, house, etc.: situated away from the main centres of population or society; free of or cut off from the features of civilization or industrialization; secluded; unspoilt; (of a person or a people) inhabiting or located in such a place.Formerly also: †(of a room) set apart from the main part of a building (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective] > devoted to retirement or seclusion remote1549 retiringc1595 1549 E. Somerset et al. Let. 24 June in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1583) II. 1302/1 Within that your cathedral church, there be as yet the Apostles masse, and our Ladies masse..vsed in priuate chappels and other remote places of the same, and not in the Chauncell. 1563 Proclam. Elizabeth I consyderyng Newhauen 1 Aug. (single sheet) Her Maiestie earnestly requireth..the principall officers..of all Cities..to prouide some remote places, where the..poore and sicke persons may be seperated from conuersation with other beyng whole. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 30 Places remote enough are in Bohemia, There..leaue it crying. View more context for this quotation a1667 A. Cowley Agriculture in Wks. (1710) II. 725 The Company was gone Into a Room remote. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 309 I sent..one of the three..to my Cave, where they were remote enough, and out of Danger of being heard or discover'd. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 117 With few associates, in remote And silent woods I wander. 1815 P. B. Shelley in E. Dowden Life Shelley (1887) I. l. 522 Whether there is in any remote and solitary situation a house to let for a time. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. i. 3 The path they had selected was remote and tranquil. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. i. 4 The place is remote and the living therefore cheap. 1924 C. Crowell in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories (1925) 31 A boy brought up..on a remote farm works out his own jumbled ideas on social laws. 1969 Listener 30 Jan. 155/2 How destructive, physically and socially, the culture-contacts with these remote peoples could be. 1972 G. Friel Mr Alfred M. A. xvii. 104 The bens and glens and lochs, the sheep and highland cattle, the remote cottage and the blue sky over all. 1997 Trail May 10/1 Mountain marathoners..who get their kicks by running around some of the most remote areas in the country..during the depths of winter. c. Distant in time; esp. of or belonging to the distant past; ancient. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > distant or remote longc1405 remote1596 distanta1616 far1646 far-off1850 far-away1851 1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 97 Vnto Euil-merodach, succeeded Beshazzar his Sonne, called also the Sonne of Nebuchadnetzar, a tearme given commonly to successors, though far remote. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Rr3^v That force of Eloquence and perswasion, hath made thinges future, and remote, appeare as present. View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 273. ¶12 Æneas [was] the remote Founder of Rome. 1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 492 When remote futurity is brought Before the keen inquiry of her thought. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 15 The antiseptic qualities of smoke were known to remotest antiquity. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 165 The inheritance of disease or character from a remote ancestor. 1928 J. K. Folsom Culture & Social Progr. xvi. 430 [Liberty] is necessary not only for present happiness, but for progress toward..greater happiness in the remote future. 1956 Econ. Bot. 10 25/1 Recovery of oil from the kernels has been practiced since remote times by the time-honored method of roasting. 1997 Chicago Tribune 5 Oct. i. 1/3 [Dinosaurs] provide invaluable material for research into the Earth's remote past. d. Denoting the distance of one thing in relation to another. Chiefly in comparative and superlative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > more distant farther1569 further1578 farthermore1610 remotea1652 a1652 S. Foster Elliptical Horologiography (1654) 180 All the other points on the remoter side of the proper 12, must go the contrary way. 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 132 In Acornes..the germ puts [printed pnts] forth at the remotest part of the pulp. 1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy ii. 109 The Seed-Branch..never strikes through the Stone into the Coats of the Seed directly, but above its Cone or remoter end. 1784 G. Wakefield Enq. Opinions Christian Writers I. ii. §ii. 277 The Women's Apartments, which were always situated in the remoter Side of the House. 1792–3 T. Jefferson Direct. Building Great Clock in J. Catanzariti Papers (1997) XXVII. 839 A circle of 12 I. radius round the center of the hour circle, will barely cover the remotest point of the works. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xxiv. 111 For our separate use, good friend, We'll hold this hut's remoter end. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables i. 18 With such a tramp of his ponderous riding-boots as might of itself have been audible in the remotest of the seven gables, he advanced to the door. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iv. §26 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. 1941 R. Headstrom Adventures with Microscope xl. 148 In these creatures the air itself is conveyed to the remotest tissues by means of an elaborate system of branching air-tubes called tracheæ. e. With reference to technical apparatus and processes: situated, occurring, or performed at a distance (not necessarily great), with no physical connection or contact. Cf. telecommand n., teleprocessing n. at tele- comb. form 1a.See also remote sensing n. at Compounds, remote control n. 2. ΚΠ 1903 U.S. Patent 732,255 1/1 My invention relates to the construction of switches for high-tension circuits,..as also to the mechanism for operating the switches by remote control. 1931 Proc. IRE 19 461 The electric field of a Hertzian dipole can be divided into three parts, designated as the near-by field, the transition field, and the remote field. 1956 Nature 28 Jan. 160/2 The remote-handling device for removal of the collectors containing the enriched product without exposure to air. 1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production iii. 28 (caption) Lens turret,..rotated by rear handle..or remote switching. 1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing vi. 96 In remote processing, input and output goes via communication lines. 1989 UnixWorld Sept. 125/2 uunet does give subscribers..gateways that provide electronic mail, batch file transfer, and remote log-in services. 2020 GlobeNewswire (Nexis) 10 Mar. To help organizations deal with the reality of the coronavirus outbreak and maintain ongoing activity by providing their employees with remote access to corporate resources. f. Making use of communications technology to enable activities to be carried out away from premises traditionally or usually used for the purpose; esp. designating work done at home rather than in an office, with technology used to submit work and communicate and meet with colleagues; designating a person who works in this way.Originally in educational contexts. ΚΠ 1956 T. C. Capraro Study of Learning & Attitudes AFROTC Cadets in Closed-circuit Instructional Television Program (D.Ed. thesis, Pennsylvania State Univ.) 48 The instructor's ability to question students in the remote classes received favorable comment. 1970 Res. Managem. 13 12 To this end, experimentation is proceeding with 2.5 gHz equipment together with leased telephone lines for talkback purposes which enables the remote student to really function as a part of the class. 1997 Creative Technol.gy May 36/3 One of the by-products of remote working is that desks are left empty and this has given rise to the uncomfortable phrase ‘hot desking’. 2012 Atlantic July 34/1 Remote workers and digital nomads come together in virtual teams..to tackle projects. 2020 Northwich Guardian (Nexis) 27 Apr. This remote performance was a wonderful way to pay tribute to the NHS and key workers. 2020 @mizingamelu 24 May in twitter.com (accessed 3 June 2020) Effective remote working will become a new normal as Businesses struggle with office space and social distancing. †4. Strange, unusual; far-fetched, outlandish, bizarre. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > bizarre remote1533 antic1579 outlandish1588 bizarrea1648 outré1722 freakish1805 weird1820 freaky1824 weirdish1863 ostrobogulous1951 ostrobogulatory1952 far-out1954 weirdo1962 flaky1972 zonky1972 gonzo1974 mondo bizarro1976 mondo1979 woo-woo1986 freakazoid1990 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. i. 15 Quha may sikkerlie afferme sa remote & vncouth historie? 1600 C. G. Minte of Deformities sig. B Vnfit conceipts shipt from the Persians, all christians hating Pagan fantasies, Remote attires of the Graesians, are enterteynd as solemne cerimonies. 1651 N. Culverwell Spiritual Opticks 5 This remote and far-fetcht way of knowledge. 1670 J. Dryden in J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest Pref. sig. A3 As his fancy was quick, so likewise were the products of it remote and new. 1770 T. Percy tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. I. xiii. 395 They took their metaphors from other subjects, which were commonly very far-fetched and remote. 1779 S. Johnson Dryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 191 Words too familiar or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. 5. a. Of a cause, effect, etc.: indirect. Opposed to immediate or proximate. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > of or relating to types of cause > remote or not immediate remote1563 mediate cause1626 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors i. f. 3^v The second cause efficient, is double, either remote that is to saye, farre of, or next of al. The farther cause of them as of all other natural effectes, are the same, the sonne, with y^e other planetes and sterres, and the very heauen it selfe in which they are moued. 1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints iii. f. 41^v Such causes as they be, be called remote, as it were to farre of: so they bee also idle and of no operation of them selues, without sume other to set them a worke. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 49 Cause, is neere, or remote, id est, further of. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 192 It is but a sensible expression of Effects, dependent on the same (though more remote) Causes. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 90 That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation. View more context for this quotation 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 40 Proximate and remote causes are rather terms of recent than of ancient writers. 1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. 59 They had not foreseen how the remoter consequences would affect their own safety. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ix. 415 The remoter effects which our actions are likely to have [etc.]. 1940 Amer. Hist. Rev. 45 591 He finds..any present situation is the immediate result of the immediate past situation and the remote result of all past situations. 1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Jan. i. a Her ‘death is too remote a consequence of the parole officers' action to hold them responsible’ under federal civil rights law, [the court said]. 2008 M. R. Cilio et al. in J. Engel et al. Epilepsy ccxxviii. 2323/1 A severe epileptic disorder..with no identifiable immediate or remote cause. b. Indirectly related to or connected with something; not having an immediate bearing or effect on another thing; seemingly unconnected. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [adjective] > immediate or direct > not immediate remote1586 distant1654 unimmediate1827 1586 S. Bredwell Detection E. Glouers Hereticall Confection ii. 98 As though a decree were not rather directly of such thinges as shoulde bee brought to passe, the things incident thereto, hauing a more remote consideration. 1599 T. Blundeville 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. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 104 Note that these middles haue contrariety in them in the remisse, or remote degree. 1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 188 I would distinguish them from remoter providences. 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 357 A Soul, that disperses it self upon all remote Actions, and applys it self properly to nothing. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind i. i. 43 The external thing is the remote or mediate object. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 220 Their nimble nonsense takes a shorter course,..And gains remote conclusions at a jump. 1825 Oriental Herald 8 287 The manners and customs of the strange nations he visits..bear a relation more or less remote to the hero of the narrative. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. vii. 257 Newton thus applies this apparently remote fact to the blue of the sky. 1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint xxiii. 181 The student is strongly recommended not to modulate..into extremely remote keys in this style of composition. 1952 Musical Q. 38 521 Here is established a very intimate reciprocation between melody and harmony, in that both connect remote relations to the tonality into a perfect unity. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 12 Aug. 321/1 This physiological action might be more remote or indirect, operating at a higher level of organization in the central nervous system. 2007 Times (Nexis) 20 Oct. (Mag. section) 79 When it comes to shoes, the high street is..not good... ‘Patents’ that peel after two outings, anorexic soles, comfort not even a remote factor. c. Distant in kinship or blood; not closely related. Cf. removed adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [adjective] > not related fremda1200 strange1338 remote1607 foreign1609 unrelated1657 1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. E4^v A stranger both remoat in blood, And in his hart oppos'd my enemy. 1613 J. Heath tr. P. Du Moulin Accomplishm. Prophecies i. 41 The Pope..hath forbidden it [sc. marriage] betweene Cosen germans, and their children, and those which are remote even to the fourth degree. 1760 S. Foote Minor i. 27 I will..trust for the support of my name and family to a remoter branch. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 421 Family alliances, near or remote, which either already existed, or were now concluded. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xvii. 96 John was a remote kinsman of the ducal house. 1907 ‘M. Twain’ Christian Sci. ii. i. 79 I was never able to refrain from mentioning..that in a remote branch of my family there exists a claimant to an earldom. 1938 Amer. Anthropologist 40 119 Unity..founded upon a community of interests arising from near or remote degrees of kinship between its members. 2005 Observer 14 Aug. (Review section) 17/2 His remote descendants, according to Barnes, include Mountbattens and others close to the Windsor dynasty. d. Of a person: seemingly set apart or distant from others in manner; withdrawn, reserved; aloof. Also of a person's expression, manner, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [adjective] > detached or non-participating partlessa1400 sullen1629 aloof1639 remote1775 unparticipate1824 unparticipant1829 non-participating1876 detached1913 1775 J. Howie Biographia Scoticana 385 Some time before this, it is said, he was very remote and spoke very little in company. 1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 63/1 We become remote, indifferent, serenely unambitious, largely incurious. 1894 H. James Death of Lion in Yellow Bk. 1 19 Paraday, still absent, remote, made no answer, as if he had not heard the question. 1914 T. Bailey Contrary Mary xxi. 324 Cousin Patty's manner was remote. 1962 O. Manning Spoilt City v. 54 His neat, Napoleonic face had taken on a remote expression intended to conceal annoyance. 1988 E. Young-Bruehl Anna Freud ii. 92 Max was remote and depressed after his wife's death. 2006 P. Woit Not even Wrong xi. 159 He is remote and unapproachable, so that those who desire to make his acquaintance are well advised to undertake an arduous course of preparation. †6. Intentionally concealed; ulterior. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adjective] privya1398 palliate?a1425 beguiled1561 masked1567 covert1574 retired1596 remote1601 palliated1612 unsuspected1620 lapped1637 sopited1646 veiled1651 perdua1734 ulterior1735 screened1844 marzipanned1979 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Martij 1600 sig. D6^v You seemed by his wordes to haue indaungered his body, as beeing a remote motiue to that his action. 1615 T. Jackson Iustifying Faith iii. vii. 321 Their slender vncertaine hopes, or remote interest in promotion. 1708 D. Defoe Memorial to Nobility Scotl. 15 The Nobility of Scotland would act like themselves, and make their Election intirely free from any remote View of Interest or Prejudices. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 53 Good offices will be done him, from Regard to his Character without remote Views. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xiii. 84 What long-reaching selfishness is my brother govern'd by! By what remote, exceedingly remote views! 7. Philosophy. Of matter: constituting the material cause of a thing (see cause n. 5); (also) basic, primary, fundamental, ultimate. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective] mother?c1225 originalc1350 radicala1398 primitive?a1425 fundamentalc1449 primordial?a1450 primea1500 primary1565 nativea1592 fundamentive1593 primordiate1599 primara1603 remote1605 originousa1637 originary1638 parental1647 principiate1654 fontal1656 underivative1656 underived1656 fountainous1662 first hand1699 matricular1793 first-handed1855 protomorphic1887 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. iv. sig. C3 Wee admit..the distinction, by which he [sc. Aristotle] diuideth his beginnings, namely, into the first matter, into the simple matter, and into that which is remote, enduring all alterations of formes, or wherein there is power to bee made subiect to all formes. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E^v 'Twere absurd To think that Nature, in the earth, bred Gold Perfect i'the instant. Something went before. There must be remote Matter. View more context for this quotation 1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica ii. vi. 21 The remote Matter of Syllogism are three Terms, to wit, two Extremes, major and minor,..and one Middle. 1717 Hist. Acct. Hungary iii. 82 The Vapours rising from the Blood of those Victims..was the remote Matter which gave Fire to the Lightening of the Malcontents. 1733 I. Watts Philos. Ess. xi. §ii. 263 The proxime Matter of a Book is its Leaves printed with Words, bound up in Covers: but Paper and Printer's Ink are the remote Matter of it. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. iv. ii. 35 Wine is the remote matter of the Eucharist. 1902 J. M. Baldwin et al. Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 52 Matter of composition, or proximate matter, is that of which a thing consists; matter of generation, or remote matter, that from which it is developed, as a seed or egg. 1988 T. Irwin Aristotle's First Princ. (1990) ii. xi. 242 The vital activities of the creature realize the functional properties of its proximate matter, not the physical properties of the remote matter. The soul is the essence of the proximate, not the remote, matter. 8. Slight, faint. In later use frequently (colloquial) in not to have the remotest: not to have the slightest idea, chance, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > slight brief1432 ride?a1500 nice1561 remote1625 slim1671 faint1726 slightish1761 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > be ignorant [phrase] > know nothing to say (also know) neither buff nor stye?a1750 to know little (or nothing) and care less1783 not to know beans1833 not to have the remotest1864 (not) to know from nothing1933 not to know shit from Shinolaa1948 1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe i. vii. 59 Whiles the delight or solace which men take in sensuall pleasures exceeds..all sense or feeling of any spirituall ioy: they cannot but wish to exchange their remote hopes of the one, for quiet fruition of the other. a1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. (1675) ii. vii. 374 Other things may be said to have some remote resemblance to the Deity; but man only amongst the visible creatures, is capable of those more immediate communications from him, by Religion. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 119. ¶5 Every thing that had the most remote Appearance of being obscene. 1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper II. ii. vi. 102 He was too sanguine in his opinion to give it up, while there was the remotest possibility on his side. 1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 225 One of the standing figures has no remote resemblance to some of the effigies of Erasmus. 1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 228 What I have done to deserve all that love I haven't the remotest conception. 1875 Appleton's Jrnl. 7 Aug. 163/3 ‘Don't you know who your unknown Nora is?’ asked Mamie... ‘I haven't the remotest idea,’ he said, carelessly. 1928 D. 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.’ 1956 K. M. Bell Some Useful Hints Pract. Surv. 9 If the instrument has been set up correctly and is in proper adjustment, the chances of any errors being made are extremely remote. 1969 E. Stewart Heads (1970) 94 ‘Why do you think he was trailing Father Fields?’ ‘I haven't the remotest,’ Greg said. 2002 Daily Mirror 31 May 25/3 Insiders say the show will sink even the remotest hope he might have had of being accepted back into polite society. B. n. †1. a. A remote place or region. Frequently in plural. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > remote descendant remote1568 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > remote or outlying area nookc1480 out-country1639 outland1645 remoteness1694 backwoods1709 back county1775 remote1838 Mountains of the Moon1852 nowhere1871 the sticks1899 way back1901 downstate1905 back o' Bourke1918 far-back1926 woop woop1926 boohai?1946 bundu1946 Dogpatch1946 outback1954 toolies1961 upstate1965 Watford1973 1568 Skelton's Colyn Cloute (new ed.) in Wks. sig. Q.iiii^v Some wil neyther golde ne grotes Some pluck a partrich in remotes. 1678 J. Leanerd Rambling Justice Prol. sig. A2 The Women thus grown out of Favour too, Must in Remotes begin and trade a new. 1795 Let. from Chancellor 87 Hail, my Bishops, go, go to the remotes of Iona and Lewis. 1838 S. Bellamy Betrayal 15 It was a drear and mountainous remote, as earth's last fugitive retreat it were. b. A remote descendant. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vi. xxxii. 159 Though thy great-Grandsier, Grandsier, & thy Father wonne & wore The King-ring, which thy Father hild yeares thirtie eight and more, Though by the cappitall Remotes of Lancaster withstood, Yeat fayle prescription and discents, now lacke they but our blood. c1653 G. Daniel Idyllia i. 41 'Twas Shame First taught vs cloths; we peccant, put a blame To each Remote! 2. Originally and chiefly U.S. Broadcasting. A radio or television programme or segment of a programme recorded or broadcast from a location outside a studio; = outside broadcast n. at outside n., adj., adv., and prep. Compounds. Cf. nemo n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > types of news bulletin1857 news summary1875 police message1886 newsflash1904 headline1908 play-by-play1909 feature1913 spot ad1916 magazine1921 news1923 time signal1923 outside broadcast1924 radiocast1924 amateur hour1925 bulletin1925 serial1926 commentary1927 rebroadcast1927 school broadcast1927 feature programme1928 trailer1928 hour1930 schools broadcast1930 show1930 spot advertisement1930 spot announcement1930 sustaining1931 flash1934 newscast1934 commercial1935 clambake1937 remote1937 repeat1937 snap1937 soap opera1939 sportcast1939 spot commercial1939 daytimer1940 magazine programme1941 season1942 soap1943 soaper1946 parade1947 public service announcement1948 simulcasting1949 breakfast-time television1952 call-in1952 talkathon1952 game show1953 kidvid1955 roundup1958 telenovela1961 opt-out1962 miniseries1963 simulcast1964 soapie1964 party political1966 novela1968 phone-in1968 sudser1968 schools programme1971 talk-in1971 God slot1972 roadshow1973 trail1973 drama-doc1977 informercial1980 infotainment1980 infomercial1981 kideo1983 talk-back1984 indie1988 omnibus1988 teleserye2000 kidult- 1937 Amer. Speech 12 100 A remote pickup or simply a remote means a program brought from some point other than station studios. 1947 Billboard 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. 1967 Boston Globe 30 Mar. 3/1 CBS said in future days Cronkite may be seen in some news remotes while Zenker remains at the desk. 2000 Jrnl. Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Nexis) 22 Sept. 716 The primary goal of a promotional remote is to generate traffic and interest in the radio station and its sponsors. 3. Short for remote control n. 2b. ΚΠ 1965 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Tribune 8 Dec. c8/4 (advt.) You buy a set... You can have remote control when you buy or anytime later on. And 4 remotes to choose from. 1984 Sears, Roebuck Catal. 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. 1990 R. Doyle Snapper (1993) 69 What's on, Sharon? Top o' the Pops, said Sharon. Oh good shite! said Jimmy Sr. Where's the remote? 2007 Ebony (Nexis) July 90 Requiring reading time encourages kids to get into the habit of reading for entertainment instead of reaching for the remote. C. adv. 1. Remotely; from or at a distance; away from centres of population. Frequently poetic. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] > at or to a distance ferrenc888 farc900 longOE afarc1300 yond13.. on length1340 alonga1382 adreigha1393 on dreicha1400 afar offc1400 far-aboutc1450 alengtha1500 distantlya1500 remote1589 remotely1609 yferrea1643 out of his (her, its, etc.) way1650 adistance1807 away1818 way1833 way1833 way off1836 way out1840 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxvi. 107 The holy Hermit..prayed them to fast, to watch, and pray, And liue remote from worldlie men. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 477 Thir rising all at once was as the sound Of Thunder heard remote . View more context for this quotation 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 134 Living very remote at Springfield. 1781 J. Morison in Sc. Paraphr. xxi. 1 Attend ye tribes that dwell remote; ye tribes at hand give ear. 2000 Manuf. Home Constr. & Safety Standards (U.S. Dept. Housing & Urban Developm.) xx. 111/1 Manufactured homes shall have a minimum of two exterior doors located remote from each other. 2. Combined with a present or past participle forming an adjective, or less commonly a verb in the past tense: = remotely adv. 2b. Cf. remote-controlled adj. ΚΠ 1904 Chicago Electr. Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers) 44 The six-phase regulators are of the induction type remote controlled. 1913 P. Laubach tr. R. Edler Switches & Switchgear 374 (heading) Remote control and remote indicating devices. 1927 U.S. Patent 267,583 3/1 The combination gives a remote indicating thermometer. 1979 J. P. Hogan Two Faces of Tomorrow ix. 95 Similar considerations ruled out putting remote-triggered destructive devices into the primary node centers of the net. 1995 Gourmet Mar. 54/2 (advt.) Remote-activated memory seats that adjust themselves before you ever open the [car] door. 1997 I. Rankin Black & Blue (1998) xiii. 177 He grabbed his briefcase and cellphone, remote-locked the car and set its alarm. 2006 Stuff Feb. 45/2 Generally accessed via a remote-entered hack or occasionally with a quick solder job. Compounds remote flowered adj. Botany (of a plant, flower spike, etc.) having flowers which are sparse or widely spaced; frequently in the names of plants. ΚΠ 1787 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (ed. 11) 603/1 Amaryllis,..Cape remote flowered. 1865 W. H. Harvey & O. W. Sonder Flora Capensis III. 601 Flowers disposed into an elongated remote-flowered spike. 1867 J. T. B. Syme Sowerby's Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) VII. 163 Statice Bahusiensis... Remote-flowered Sea Lavender. 1907 Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 12 394 Slender, glabrate, remote-flowered plants, with thin ovate roughened leaves. 2000 C. L. Withner Cattleyas & Relatives VI. ii. 125 (heading) Remote-flowered Encyclia. remote locking n. a feature on a motor vehicle which allows doors to be locked and unlocked by means of remote control; cf. Plip n.² ΚΠ 1962 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 15 May 24/1 Coming also is the car door that will open without the usual manual struggle. Remote locking..has paved the way. 2009 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 6 Mar. All versions have an electronic stability programme, air conditioning, four electric windows, remote locking and six airbags. remote sensing n. sensing (sensing n. 2b) of something not immediately adjacent to the sensor; spec. the automatic acquisition of information about the surface of the earth or another planet from a distance, as carried out from satellites and high-flying aircraft. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > [noun] > remote sensing remote sensing1958 the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > [adjective] > remote sensing remote sensing1958 1958 U.S. Patent 2,847,636 5 A lead taken..to the negative side of the load so as to eliminate lead drop by providing remote sensing. Thus the voltage error may be sensed at any point. 1962 Proc. 1st Symp. 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. 1986 Sci. Amer. Jan. 28/1 Remote sensing includes not only ordinary photoreconnaissance,..but also the imaging of the earth's surface. 1997 Science 10 Jan. 198/2 Terrestrial-based remote sensing studies..indicate that Mercury has a silicate crust. 2007 Nature 22 Feb. 830/1 The largest subglacial lakes can also be detected using remote sensing. remote sensor n. a device or instrument used for remote sensing. ΚΠ 1961 Brit. Patent 879,756 1/2 On failure of the remote sensor..the pilot can find the required information displayed at the same familiar point on his panel. 1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Oct. c1 Voyager identified some of the [Jovian] atmosphere's composition with remote sensors. 2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 520/1 Scientists use an expansive network of wireless remote sensors to measure everything from barometric shifts..to the number of times a willow flycatcher returns to its nest. remote viewer n. Parapsychology a person who practises remote viewing; a clairvoyant. ΚΠ 1974 Nature 18 Oct. 606/1 The judges were asked to match the nine locations..against the typed manuscripts of the tape-recorded narratives of the remote viewer. 2005 Time Out N.Y. 4 Aug. 63/4 Word is that during the Cold War the U. S. military used ‘remote viewers’, psychics who gathered intelligence on places they′d never seen. remote viewing n. Parapsychology the supposed ability to see distant objects or events by means of extrasensory perception; clairvoyance. ΚΠ 1974 Nature 18 Oct. 605/2 During the observation period, the remote-viewing subject would describe his impressions of the target site into a tape recorder. 2003 Fortean Times Nov. 68/2 Learn hypnotherapy at home for Past Life Regression, trance work, Remote Viewing, anxiety, phobia removal, performance enhancement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). remotev. Brit. /rᵻˈməʊt/, U.S. /rəˈmoʊt/, /riˈmoʊt/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Probably also partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: Latin remōt- , removēre ; remote adj. Etymology: Originally < classical Latin remōt-, past participial stem of removēre remove v. In later use probably directly < remote adj. Compare slightly earlier remoted adj. rare. transitive. To make (something) remote; (in later use) to convey to a location at a distance. Also intransitive with reflexive meaning.Formerly also: †to remove (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away ateec885 withbreidec890 animOE overbearOE to do awayOE flitc1175 reavec1175 takec1175 to have away?a1300 to draw awayc1300 weve13.. to wend awaya1325 withdrawa1325 remuec1325 to carry away1363 to take away1372 waive1377 to long awaya1382 oftakec1390 to draw offa1398 to do froa1400 forflitc1420 amove?a1425 to carry out?a1425 surtrayc1440 surtretec1440 twistc1440 abstract1449 ostea1450 remove1459 ablatea1475 araisea1475 redd1479 dismove1480 diminish?1504 convey1530 alienate1534 retire1536 dimove1540 reversec1540 subtractc1540 submove1542 sublate1548 pare1549 to pull in1549 exempt1553 to shift off1567 retract?1570 renversec1586 aufer1587 to lay offa1593 rear1596 retrench1596 unhearse1596 exemea1600 remote1600 to set off1600 subduct1614 rob1627 extraneize1653 to bring off1656 to pull back1656 draft1742 extract1804 reef1901 1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. B5^v Because she..did remote Her heart from heau'n's book where her name was wrote. 1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations l. 265 He therefore generate because he approaches neerer: and cause corruption, because he remotes and recedeth farther from the earth. 1962 Educ. Television: Next Ten Years (Institute for Communication Research, Stanford) vi. 290 Observatory television is employed in classrooms for picking up authentic demonstrations or examples of classroom procedures and remoting them to teacher trainees for study and analysis. 2003 R. Wallis How Safe are our Skies? iv. 91 Passenger and hand baggage screening remoted to the departure gate allows the terrorist to approach within paces of their objective before being challenged. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.adv.?1440v.1600
随便看	to get the start of to get the stink eye to get the strength of to get the sun in one's eyes to get the sun of to get the swap to get the waur to get the willies to get the wind up to get the wire to get the wissel of one's groat to get the works to get the worse to get the worse end of the staff to get the worse of to get the worship of to get the worst to get the worst of to get the worst of it to get the wrong end of the pineapple to get the wrong end of the stick to get theirs to get there to get there fustest with the mostest to get through

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