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REMOTE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
Example:
he lost the remote for his TV
Synonyms:
remote; remote control
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inaccessible and sparsely populated
Synonyms:
outback; remote
Classified under:
Similar:
inaccessible; unaccessible (capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all)
Derivation:
remoteness (the property of being remote)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Located far away spatially
Example:
remote stars
Synonyms:
distant; remote
Classified under:
Similar:
far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)
Derivation:
remoteness (the property of being remote)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Separate or apart in time
Example:
the remote past or future
Synonyms:
distant; remote; removed
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)
Derivation:
remoteness (the property of being remote)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
Example:
considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics
Synonyms:
distant; remote
Classified under:
Adjectives
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)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Very unlikely
Example:
a remote contingency
Synonyms:
outside; remote
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unlikely (has little chance of being the case or coming about)
Derivation:
remoteness (the property of being remote)
Context examples:
That evening calm betrayed alike the tinkle of the nearest streams, the sough of the most remote.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A diffuse or multifocal peripheral neuropathy related to the remote effects of a neoplasm, most often carcinoma or lymphoma.
(Paraneoplastic Polyneuropathy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The spread of a malignant neoplasm from an unknown primary to another region remote from the primary site.
(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm of Unknown Primary Origin, NCI Thesaurus)
Two other dark storms were discovered by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989 as it flew by the remote planet.
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
It might one day be used to conduct biomedical tests in remote and resource-limited areas.
(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)
They are growing in a remote region of northern Brazil, far from human activity, and may be over 400 years old.
(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)
Sound recorders make great tools for environmental assessment because they can be deployed in remote places and work autonomously for long periods.
(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)
The life of only one member was demanded, which was a remoter interest than their lives, and in the end they were content to pay the toll.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Remote and alien as a traveller from another planet, he snarled down their soft-spoken love-words.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
(The Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe, NASA)
