Remove

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Remove \Re*move"\ (r?-m??v"), v. i.
     To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place;
     to move or go from one residence, position, or place to
     another.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
           I can not taint with fear.               --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The verb remove, in some of its application, is
           synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not
           apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a
           change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his
           head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it,
           but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always
           denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply
           it to a regular, continued course or motion. We never
           say the wind or water, or a ship, removes at a certain
           rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from
           one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic
           term, including the sense of remove, which is more
           generally applied to a change from one station or
           permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.
           [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Remove \Re*move"\ (r?-m??v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Removed}
     (-m??vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Removing}.] [OF. removoir,
     remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to
     move. See {Move}.]
     1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to
        change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.
                                                    --Deut. xix.
                                                    14.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving
              us, I generally ordered the table to be removed.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to
        be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an
        end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. "King Richard
        thus removed." --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President
        removed many postmasters.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: See the Note under {Remove}, v. i.
           [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Remove \Re*move"\, n.
     1. The act of removing; a removal.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              This place should be at once both school and
              university, not needing a remove to any other house
              of scholarship.                       --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic
        belongings, from one location or dwelling house to
        another; -- in the United States usually called a move.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              It is an English proverb that three removes are as
              bad as a fire.                        --J. H.
                                                    Newman.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. The state of being removed. --Locke.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to
        make room for something else.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. The distance or space through which anything is removed;
        interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any
        scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English
        public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
                                                    --Addison.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     6. (Far.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. --Swift.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  remove
       n : degree of figurative distance or separation; "just one
           remove from madness" or "it imitates at many removes a
           Shakespearean tragedy";
       v 1: remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking
            off, etc. or remove something abstract; "remove a
            threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes
            from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This
            machine withdraws heat from the environment" [syn: {take},
             {take away}, {withdraw}]
       2: remove from a position or an office
       3: dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got
          rid of all the dead wood" [syn: {get rid of}]
       4: cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the
          classroom" [syn: {take out}, {move out}]
       5: shift the position or location of, as for business, legal,
          educational, or military purposes; "He removed his
          children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the
          forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another
          court" [syn: {transfer}]
       6: go away or leave; "He absented himself" [syn: {absent}]
       7: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss
          ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: {murder}, {slay}, {hit},
           {dispatch}, {bump off}, {polish off}]
       8: get rid of something abstract; "The death of her mother
          removed the last obstacle to their marriage"; "God takes
          away your sins" [syn: {take away}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  369 Moby Thesaurus words for "remove":
     abandon, abate, abrade, abscond, abstract, amount, annihilate,
     assassinate, avulse, bare, bate, beat a retreat, blow, blow out,
     boot, boot out, bounce, bow out, break, bump, bump off, bust,
     caliber, can, carry away, carry off, cart away, cashier, cast,
     cast aside, cast away, cast off, cast out, chuck, chuck out,
     clean out, cleanse, cleanse away, clear, clear away, clear off,
     clear out, clear the decks, compass, curtail, cut, cut out,
     deconsecrate, decrease, deduct, deep-six, defecate, defenestrate,
     defrock, degrade, degree, delete, deliver, delocalize, demote,
     denudate, denude, deplete, deplume, deport, depose, depreciate,
     deprive, deracinate, derogate, detach, dethrone, detract, detrude,
     dig out, dig up, diminish, disappear, disbar, discard, discharge,
     disconnect, discrown, disemploy, disengage, disentangle,
     disenthrone, dislocate, dislodge, dismiss, disparage, dispart,
     displace, displume, dispose of, distance, disturb, ditch, divest,
     do away with, do in, doff, douse, drain, draw, draw out, dredge,
     dredge up, drop, drum out, dump, eat away, efface, eighty-six,
     eject, elide, eliminate, empty, empty out, eradicate, erase, erode,
     evacuate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exclude, excommunicate,
     execute, exhaust, exile, expatriate, expel, expose, expunge,
     exsect, extent, exterminate, extirpate, extract, extricate,
     extrude, file away, fire, fleece, free, free from, furlough,
     get out, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away,
     give release, give respite, give the ax, give the gate,
     give the hook, gouge out, grade, grub up, heave out, height,
     impair, intermit, interspace, interval, jettison, jilt, junk,
     keep apart, kick, kick downstairs, kick out, kick upstairs, kill,
     lay aside, lay bare, lay off, lay open, leach, leap, lessen,
     let go, let out, level, liberate, liquidate, loose, loosen,
     make a space, make redundant, manhandle, mark, massacre, measure,
     mine, move, murder, notch, nuance, obliterate, obtrude, oust,
     outlaw, overthrow, part, part with, pas, peg, pension, pension off,
     period, pick out, pitch, plane, plateau, pluck, pluck out,
     pluck up, point, proportion, pull, pull out, pull up, purge,
     purge away, purify, put aside, put off, put out, quarry, quit,
     rake out, range, ratio, reach, read out of, reduce, refine, reject,
     release, relocate, remove from office, replace, reprieve, retire,
     retreat, retrench, rip out, root out, root up, round, rub away,
     rub off, rub out, rung, sack, scale, scope, scour out, send,
     separate, separate forcibly, separation, set apart, set aside,
     set at intervals, shade, shadow, shear, shed, shift, ship, shorten,
     shunt, side, slaughter, slay, slip out of, slough, space,
     space out, stair, standard, step, step out of, stint, strike off,
     strike out, strip, strip bare, strip of office, strip of rank,
     subduct, subtract, superannuate, surplus, suspend, sweep away,
     sweep out, take away, take from, take off, take out, tear out,
     thin, thin out, throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over,
     throw overboard, thrust out, toss out, toss overboard, transfer,
     tread, turn off, turn out, unbar, unbind, unbolt, unbuckle,
     unbutton, unchain, unchurch, unclasp, uncloak, unclog, uncover,
     undo, unearth, unfasten, unfetter, unfoul, unfrock, unglue, unlace,
     unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosen, unravel, unsaddle,
     unseat, unsheathe, unstick, unstrap, unthrone, untie, unveil,
     unwrap, uproot, vacate, vanish, vent, void, waste, wear away, weed,
     weed out, weigh anchor, wipe off, wipe out, withdraw, wrest out