remote1 adjectiveremote2 noun
remotere‧mote1 /rɪˈməʊt $ -ˈmoʊt/ ●●○ W3 adjective 
WORD ORIGINremote1
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin past participle of removere; ➔ REMOVEEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Analysts say a political solution is more remote than ever.
- Peter's father was always remote and silent around his family.
- Space probes operate in dark, cold, remote parts of the solar system.
- The chances of such an accident happening again are very remote.
- The helicopter crashed in a remote desert area.
- The plane went down in a remote forest area.
- The procedure was monitored with remote cameras.
- There is a remote possibility the program could be halted, if funding were cut.
- There is only a remote prospect of peace in the region.
- They moved to a remote farmhouse in North Wales.
- But they submitted that the damage was too remote.
- In Izmir, passengers transfer to a 70-foot yacht that sails along the coast, anchoring at remote bays and villages.
- It is your public name on the remote system, and you generally create it the first time you call in.
- Much effort went into tracing remote family connections abroad on the off chance of identifying a benefactor.
- On stage vacuum control for remote rotation is available if required.
- The problems of getting copy on to the system from a remote source was, therefore, already solved.
- The real work is being done by remote computers on the Web.
THESAURUS
adverb a long distance – used mainly in negatives and questions, or after ‘too’, ‘so’, and ‘as’: · It’s not far to the airport from here.· Have you driven far?· The ship was so far away we could hardly see it.
adverb a long distance from somewhere. This is the most common way of talking about long distances, except in negatives and questions when far is also common: · You must be tired – you’ve come a long way.· It’s a long way down from the top of the cliff.· I can’t see things that are a long way away.
adverb informal a very long way: · We hiked miles.· The school is miles away from where I live.
adverb a long way from where you are now – used when talking about things that seem small or sounds that seem quiet because they are a long way away: · Dogs were barking somewhere in the distance.
adjective especially written used about something that is a long distance from where you are now, and looks small or sounds quiet: · By now, the plane was just a distant speck in the sky.· the rumble of distant thunder
adjective especially written a very long distance from where you are now: · a traveller from a faraway land· His voice sounded faraway.· He told us stories about the faraway countries he had visited.
adjective a remote place is a long distance from other places, and few people go there: · The helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country.· remote holiday destinations
adjective an isolated place is a long distance from other towns, buildings, or people, and there is very little communication with surrounding places: · isolated rural areas of Nepal· Occasionally we passed through a small isolated village.· If you travel to isolated areas, make sure you have a good guide.
(also off the beaten path American English) adverb a place that is off the beaten track is a long distance from the places where people usually go, and often seems interesting and different because of this: · She likes to go to places that are a bit off the beaten track.
Longman Language Activatorfar away from other places a distant or far-off town or country is a long way from where you are: · Food at the fair comes from such far-off places as Brazil and Lithuania.· How can we send our young men off to distant lands to die in foreign wars?
written a faraway country, especially one that you have been told about or have read about, is very far away, and different from your own country: · Ed told us stories of all the faraway countries he had visited.· Avis always dreamed of an exotic vacation in some faraway place.
remote places are far away from other places or people, and very few people go there: · They moved to a remote farmhouse in North Wales.· The helicopter crashed in a remote desert area.
a long way from other towns, buildings, or people, especially in a quiet place where you are alone: · If you travel to isolated areas, make sure you have a good guide.· The area is extremely isolated because of the hills that surround it.
a secluded place is private and quiet because it is a long way from other people - use this about a place where people can do what they want without being disturbed: · They drove to a secluded spot in the country to have their picnic.· We rented a little cabin on the edge of a secluded lake.
informal in a lonely place a long way from towns or villages, where you do not expect to find any houses: · Amazingly, we found a really nice motel in the middle of nowhere.· We were miles from anywhere and had no idea how to get back.
American informal in a part of the country that is a long way from any town: · I'm not moving to that place - it's out in the boondocks.· Gayle lives out in the boonies - it would take at least an hour to get there.
fairly far away from any town or from where other people live, and a little difficult to find and travel to: · The house is a little out of the way, but you should be able to find it.
also off the beaten path American a place that is off the beaten track or path is a long way from the places where people usually go, which usually makes it more interesting to visit: · The little restaurant was so far off the beaten track that we almost didn't find it.· Greg likes to get off the beaten path and discover places that other tourists don't find.
a long way from where you are now or far away from the nearest town: way out in/past/beyond etc: · I live way out in Laurel Canyon.· We drove way out past Reno to the old Fielding place.
far-flung places are all connected with a particular organization, country etc but they are all very far away from it: · Our job is to organize the company's far-flung offices.· Participants come from nations as far-flung as Iceland and Japan.
possible but not likely something that is unlikely will probably not happen or is probably not true: · She might come with us, but it's fairly unlikely.unlikely to do something: · A small amount of the drug is unlikely to have any harmful effects.it is unlikely (that): · It is unlikely that anyone saw the attack.
formal unlikely to happen or unlikely to be true: highly improbable: · Carter claims he paid $4000 for the papers, which seems highly improbable.· The new pay agreement makes further industrial action by the union highly improbable.it is/seems improbable that: · It seems improbable that America's allies will oppose the proposed arms reduction.
very unlikely to be true or very unlikely to happen: · "Is Maddy coming tonight?" "It's looking doubtful - she was really sick."it is doubtful that: · It's doubtful that we'll finish this tonight.
extremely unlikely to happen: · The chances of such an accident happening again are very remote.· There is only a remote prospect of peace in the region.· There is a remote possibility the program could be halted, if funding were cut.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
There’s a remote chance that you can catch him before he leaves.
1far away far from towns or other places where people live SYN isolated: There’s a remote chance that you can catch him before he leaves. (=someone related to you, who lived a long time ago)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=a long way from towns and cities)· a remote area of northeast Afghanistan
(=a very small chance)· He still has an outside chance of winning the championship.
(=far from any towns)· There’s a remote cottage in the mountains where we go for walking holidays.
(=far away)· I remember visiting a remote island off the west coast of Ireland.· The islands were so remote that they could only be reached at certain times of the year.
· Rivers of molten lava clearly flowed here in the distant past.
(=something that is not very likely)· There's no point worrying about such a remote possibility.
(=one that is far away from larger towns)· We need to get food aid to the more remote villages.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· The new ScaNet/RemotePC is designed to give ScaNet users remote access from personal computers via a modem.· There is also no character-based interface for remote access making it clumsy as a server.· This ability to share the desktop has many useful features, like allowing remote access to your office computer.· Auto-dialling and remote access is possible from touch-tone telephones and electronic mail and voice-mail functions may be incorporated at a later date.
· Its genes also hint at its remote ancestors.· Our remote ancestors took two hundred million years to learn how to adapt to the land.· Our remote ancestors were among those who found it expedient to change and diversify.
· Darlington Community Health Council yesterday discussed the problem of delays in reaching patients who live in the more remote areas of Teesdale.· There is more at stake here than just bringing boxes of sophisticated equipment to remote areas.· The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas.· Those living in the more remote area like Albany, where I did my first workshop, are truly isolated.· School became standard, even in remote areas.· But they do kill more of the lay people in the remote areas.· He chose accessible routes, found accommodations in remote areas and was knowledgeable about local plants, animals and customs.
· But they also knew there was a remote chance that their efforts might help to prevent catastrophe.· I was naïve enough to think it had a remote chance.· Powell only has a remote chance of playing, for Reilly's squad has retained its shape and strength.
· Applications include mobile facsimile, data sharing and transfer and remote computer access.· You can do this when the terminal window is active, before you dial the remote computer.· The real work is being done by remote computers on the Web.· The large central section of the window displays the remote computer bulletin board.· For example, users can tell the authentication server with which remote computer they want to converse.· It Chapter 5 205 sends two encrypted tokens: one for the user and another to send to the remote computer.
· Specification is high - remote control central locking and electric windows.· Any flip of the remote control will serve up countless images of graphic violence.· He would need a hired watcher for that, or a camera operated by remote control.· Batut, whose work predates radio remote control, triggered his shutter by the use of slow burning fuse.· I particularly liked the detachable remote control unit which not only allows you to operate the shutter but also the zoom.· The handset looks like an elongated remote control and weighs only 1 pound.· I roll a joint and fall into bed with my remote control.· Players have a remote control and can channel surf to the channel they want to play on.
· As the city slumbers, a slum area in a remote corner of the metropolis goes up in flames.· There were no blurry eyes, no one-on-one sessions with the assistant coaches in a remote corner.· They flip from one airport to another collecting and dumping in remote corners, removed from passenger terminals.· Obscured by clouds and rain in remote corners of croplands, they damaged little more than anthills or irrigation networks.· Nobody is quite sure what is happening in remote corners of KwaZulu-Natal like Izingolweni.· Sibley lives in a remote corner of a remote mountain chain in the wilds of Arizona.· Much more impact can be made by delving into the remote corners of society in pursuit of the exotic.· A question bubbled from some remote corner of his brain, as uncomfortable as the children's sores.
· Personal computers are now commonly found in site huts, even in remote locations where they can be powered by car batteries.· As might be expected, phone companies are major advocates and practitioners of working from home or other remote locations.· A lot of the places where Ann and I fish are in remote locations.· These can give people who have to live in certain remote locations a slightly better chance of obtaining appropriate accommodation.· They are not particularly high, but very elegant and their remote location makes a visit a must.· Those responsible for running major contracts in more remote locations may be on a bachelor status with more frequent air tickets.· Because of the remote location, Stornoway Fire Brigade members were flown in by helicopter.· The computer systems at the Grid Control Centre are supported by standby facilities on site and at a remote location.
· It may be that the old pictographic signs acquired a special magic power associated with the remote past.· Besides the cyclical view and the progressive, there was the important tradition concerning a Golden Age in the remote past.· He brings us literally face to face with the remote past.
· It had been a remote possibility, but it had existed.· But that remote possibility, he knew, had already been examined and dismissed.· On the other hand, there is just the remote possibility that some one will invent it tomorrow.· The pipeline is no longer a remote possibility.
· Amelie pushed on through Dax, stopping overnight in remote villages and negotiating the various command posts nervously.· As he had a car he invariably conducted those in the more remote villages such as Carlton, Dean, Millbrook and Riseley.· Transports in and out carrying shipments of rice that were dropped into remote villages.· Up in the remote villages they would be reason ably safe and the people would help them.· During my stay in a remote village in Kangwon Province, watching me shampoo my hair became a spectacle.· Ted Smith owned a smallholding in a remote village in South Lincolnshire.
a remote border town a fire in a remote mountain area► see thesaurus at far2not likely if a chance or possibility of something happening is remote, it is not very likely to happen SYN slightremote chance/possibility There’s a remote chance that you can catch him before he leaves. The prospect of peace seems remote.3time far away in time SYN distant: the remote time when dinosaurs walked the eartha remote ancestor (=someone related to you, who lived a long time ago)4different very different from somethingremote from The Heights was quiet and clean and remote from the busy daily life of the city.5person unfriendly, and not interested in people SYN distant: His father was a remote, quiet man.6not have the remotest idea/interest/intention etc especially British English used to emphasize that you do not know something, are not interested in something, do not intend to do something etc: He hasn’t the remotest interest in sport.remote what/where/who etc I haven’t the remotest idea what you mean.—remoteness noun [uncountable]remote1 adjectiveremote2 noun
remoteremote2 noun [countable] a remote control: Give me the remote.