remove
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ɹɪˈmuːv/
美 /ɹɪˈmuv/|/ɹɪˈmʉːv/
英文释义
名词 n.
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The act of removing something.
— This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.
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A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
— A supper brings up the rear, not forgetting the introductory luncheon, almost equalling in removes the dinner.
- (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
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A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
— A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
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Distance in time or space; interval.
— How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy Name, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine; […]
- Emotional distance or indifference.
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State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
— The fact that one structure applied in the rainy season and another in the dry allowed Nambikwara chiefs to view their own social arrangements at one remove: to see them as not simply “given”, in the natural order of things, but as something at least partially open to human intervention.
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The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
— It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
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The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
— His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails
动词 v.
- To delete.
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To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
— He removed the marbles from the bag.
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To move from one place to another, especially to take away.; To replace a dish within a course.
— But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
- To murder.
- To dismiss a batsman.
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To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
— Eternall thraldom was to her more liefe, / Then loſſe of chaſtitie, or chaunge of loue : / Dye had ſhe rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any ſhould of falſeneſſe her reproue, / Or looſeneſſe, that ſhe lightly did remoue.
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To depart, to leave; to move oneself or be moved.
— THenne the kynge dyd doo calle syre Gawayne / syre Borce / syr Lyonel and syre Bedewere / and commaunded them to goo strayte to syre Lucius / and saye ye to hym that hastely he remeue oute of my land / And yf he wil not / bydde hym make hym redy to bataylle and not distresse the poure peple
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To change one's residence or place of business; to move.
— Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.
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To dismiss or discharge from office.
— The President removed many postmasters.
词形变化
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Proto-Italic *wremoweō
Latin removeō
Old French removoir
Anglo-Norman removerbor.
Middle English removen
English remove
From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native Old English āfierran.
Proto-Italic *wre-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Proto-Italic *wremoweō
Latin removeō
Old French removoir
Anglo-Norman removerbor.
Middle English removen
English remove
From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native Old English āfierran.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Proto-Italic *wremoweō
Latin removeō
Old French removoir
Anglo-Norman removerbor.
Middle English removen
English remove
From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native Old English āfierran.
Proto-Italic *wre-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Proto-Italic *wremoweō
Latin removeō
Old French removoir
Anglo-Norman removerbor.
Middle English removen
English remove
From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native Old English āfierran.
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