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REMOTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does remote mean?
• REMOTE (noun)
The noun REMOTE has 1 sense:
1. a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
Familiarity information: REMOTE used as a noun is very rare.
• REMOTE (adjective)
The adjective REMOTE has 5 senses:
1. located far away spatially
2. very unlikely
3. separate or apart in time
4. inaccessible and sparsely populated
5. far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
Familiarity information: REMOTE used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
remote; remote control
Context example:
he lost the remote for his TV
Hypernyms ("remote" is a kind of...):
device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)
Holonyms ("remote" is a part of...):
remote-control bomb (a bomb that can be detonated by remote control)
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: remotest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Located far away spatially
Synonyms:
distant; remote
Context example:
remote stars
Similar:
far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)
Derivation:
remoteness (the property of being remote)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Very unlikely
Synonyms:
outside; remote
Context example:
a remote contingency
Similar:
unlikely (has little chance of being the case or coming about)
Derivation:
remoteness (the property of being remote)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Separate or apart in time
Synonyms:
Context example:
the remote past or future
Similar:
far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)
Derivation:
remoteness (the property of being remote)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Inaccessible and sparsely populated
Synonyms:
outback; remote
Similar:
inaccessible; unaccessible (capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all)
Derivation:
remoteness (the property of being remote)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
Synonyms:
distant; remote
Context example:
considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics
Similar:
faraway (far removed mentally)
loosely knit (having only distant social or legal ties)
removed (separated in relationship by a given degree of descent)
ulterior (beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote)
Context examples
Ruth pressed her mother's hand in assent, feeling that she really did understand, though her conception was of something vague, remote, and terrible that was beyond the scope of imagination.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It had come down to him from a remote ancestry through a thousand thousand lives.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Also called high-dose-rate remote radiation therapy and remote brachytherapy.
(High-dose-rate remote brachytherapy, NCI Dictionary)
It is a remote desert town with a population of around fifty people.
(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)
The principal function of this retainer was to quarrel with the cook; in which respect he was a perfect Whittington, without his cat, or the remotest chance of being made Lord Mayor.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This is the first time astronomers have found stars being born in such a remote location.
(Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center, JPL/NASA)
The remote galaxy is three times as massive as the Milky Way but only half the size.
(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
They constructed a remote controlled, optofluidic implant.
(Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons, NIH)
Also called high-dose-rate remote brachytherapy and remote brachytherapy.
(High-dose-rate remote radiation therapy, NCI Dictionary)
The first remote sound to which she felt herself obliged to attend, was the name of Jane Fairfax.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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