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Definition: Remote |
RemoteAdjective1. Far distant in space; "distant lands"; "remote stars"; "a remote outpost of civilization"; "a hideaway far removed from towns and cities". 2. Very unlikely; "outside chance"; "remote possibility". 3. Far distant in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future"; "a civilization ten centuries removed from modern times". 4. Inaccessible and sparsely populated. 5. Far apart in nature; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics". Noun1. A device used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance; "he lost the remote for his TV". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "remote" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Pertaining to an equipment located at a distance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | Outside studio broadcast. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A local switch with limited call-processing capabilities, installed in a sparsely populated area and linked to a single host system on which it depends both for complex control functions and for routing traffic. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A programme originating elsewhere than in the studio of a broadcasting organisation, or the broadcast description of an event in progress. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| REBECCA | English | Remote Electrical Block Energisation Chock Control Arrangement | N/A |
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Synonyms: RemoteSynonyms: backwoods(a) (adj), distant (adj), outback(a) (adj), outside (adj), removed (adj), removed(p) (adj), remote control (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cause | Spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead; fons et origo, genesis; descent; (paternity); remote cause; influence. |
Distance | Noun: distance; space; remoteness, farness, far-cry to; longinquity, elongation; offing, background; remote region; removedness; parallax; reach, span, stride. |
Adjective: distant; far off, far away; remote, telescopic, distal, wide of; stretching to; Verb: yon, yonder; ulterior; transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine; tramontane; ultramontane, ultramundane; hyperborean, antipodean; inaccessible, out of the way; unapproached, unapproachable; incontiguous. | |
Futurity | Noun: futurity, futurition; future, hereafter, time to come; approaching time, coming time, subsequent time, after time, approaching age, coming age, subsequent age, after age, approaching days, coming days, subsequent days, after days, approaching hours, coming hours, subsequent hours, after hours, approaching ages, coming ages, subsequent ages, after ages, approaching life, coming life, subsequent life, after life, approaching years, coming years, subsequent years, after years; morrow; millennium, doomsday, day of judgment, crack of doom, remote future. |
Indifference | Aloof, unapproachable, remote; uncaring. |
Irrelation | Remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing; detached, segregate; disquiparant. |
The Past | Ntiquity, antiqueness, status quo; time immemorial; distance of time; remote age, remote time; remote past; rust of antiquity |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Madam, the chances of bagging an elephant on the Moon are remote. (First Men in the Moon; writing credit: Nigel Kneale; Jan Read) And not for this day and hour alone were the mind and conscience of this man darkened, on whom the burden of events weighed more heavily than on all the others who took part in it. Never, to the end of his life, had he the least comprehension of goodness, of beauty or of truth, or of the significance of his actions, which were too contrary to goodness and truth, too remote from everything human for him ever to understand their meaning (War and Peace; writing credit: Sergei Bondarchuk; Vasili Solovyov) I mean, I hit the remote with it, light up with it, relieve a little tension (Idle Hands; writing credit: Terri Hughes; Ron Milbauer) | |
Lyrics | Which prior to that time had been practiced only furtively by a remote tribe in the Andes who passed the secret down from father to son as part of their oral tradition (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | Adult Education Topic: Loss of identity: Losing the remote to your significant other. Helpline support and support groups. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | ...Remote... Remote... (1973) Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control (1972) Remote Love (1956) The Remote (2000) Remote (1993) | |
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Pictured is a darkened room with a lighted screen and remote keyboard. A technician is seated and with the left hand is pointing to the screen showing blue, red and purple images. This is an ultrasonic device. This imaging device sends short bursts of sound into the body. Echoes are reflected from tissues and transformed on the screen into colored outlines of tissues and organs. This may also be used as a therapy method. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | In remote areas with little human habitation, the most appropriate action may be to post signs on the roads entering the epizootic area to warn people, and provide information on personal protection and plague prevention. Credit: CDC. | ||
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the central portion of a remote cluster of ... Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Bank of recording instruments at Honolulu geophysical observatory Recording tidal levels at remote sites throughout Pacific Basin Used for tsunami warning system. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | |
![]() | One of the hazards of heavy aircraft on remote airstrips The B-17 was a little too heavy for this airstrip. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | A remote aerial view of the "Beach Builder". Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The eastern brown pelican has made a remarkable comeback after facing near extinction in the 60's due to the effects of pesticides. Still classified as threatened in South Carolina, pelicans nest on remote beaches and feed in the estuaries and nearshore coastal areas. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). | ![]() | AQUARIUS ops: talk bubbles provide remote air, comms and equipment drop points. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
![]() | Map of TIROS II infrared imagery with accompanying cloud analysis. TIROS II was the first meteorological satellite to carry infra-red remote sensing instruments. Credit: NOAA in Space. | The Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument was designated by President Clinton in January 2000. The monuments remote open, undeveloped area and engaging scenery is located on the edge of the Grand Canyon. Credit: Bette Ariel. | |
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| "Remote" by Braden Hays Commentary: "A remote control from my stereo." | "Remote Control" by Brad David Commentary: "A beautiful shot of a Remote Control for a TV in B&W." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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| Turning the car alarm on or off using a key chain remote control. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Denis Diderot | Ignorance is less remote from truth than prejudice. |
Thomas Jefferson | Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The first remote sound to which she felt herself obliged to attend, was the name of Jane Fairfax |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The causes of his embitterment were many, remote and near |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | This may perhaps pass with the reader rather for an European or English story, than for one of a country so remote. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before Adam and after the last man. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Infection affects poor communities in remote parts of Africa that do not have safe water to drink. (references) | |
Several years later, in 1963, in the remote savannas of the Beni province of Bolivia, Machupo virus was isolated. (references) | ||
Simple rehydration treatment saves lives, but logistics of delivery in remote areas remains difficult during epidemic periods. (references) | ||
Business | The deposits are located in remote areas, far from markets. (references) | |
Argentine law requires the use of CCTV and remote alarms by all banks, both large and small. (references) | ||
The public sector does make extensive use of parabolic antennas for education in remote areas. (references) | ||
Children | Cambodia | In many areas, schools are remote, and transportation is a major problem. (references) |
Korea | In some remote provinces, many persons over the age of 6 years reportedly appear to be suffering from long-term malnutrition. (references) | |
Brunei | With a few exceptions involving small villages in extremely remote areas, nutritional standards are high, and poverty is almost unknown. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Burma | In addition the army reportedly also has taken over churches to use them for bases in remote areas. (references) |
Pakistan | Journalists working in remote areas can expect more difficulties from local authorities and influential individuals than their urban counterparts. (references) | |
Panama | However, many displaced Colombians living along the remote Darien border area were beyond the reach of organized assistance from the Government, the UNHCR, or the Church. (references) | |
Economic History | Philippines | Small forest tribes live in the more remote areas of Mindanao. (references) |
Uk | There is also great interest in remote learning and in 'virtual classrooms'. (references) | |
Guatemala | Any resumption of armed political conflict appears a very remote possibility. (references) | |
Human Rights | Korea | Most camps are located in remote mountain or mining areas. (references) |
Eritrea | It is probable that there were additional, unreported deaths in remote areas. (references) | |
Colombia | On December 1, AUC paramilitaries shot and killed 15 persons on a remote country road in Boyaca department. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guyana | Most live in reservations and villages in remote parts of the interior. (references) |
Congo | Pygmies were marginalized severely in the areas of employment, health, and education, in part due to their isolation in remote forested areas of the country. (references) | |
Indonesia | This includes, but is not limited to, groups such as the Dayak population in Kalimantan, some of whom live in remote forest areas, indigenous communities located throughout Papua, and economically disadvantaged families living as sea nomads on boats near Riau in eastern Sumatra and near Makassar (Ujung Pandang) in southern Sulawesi. (references) | |
Minorities | Nepal | In remote areas, school lessons and national radio broadcasts often are conducted in the local language. (references) |
Burma | Ethnic minority areas that were remote from active insurgent operations, such as the large Karen areas of Irrawaddy Division, experienced tighter controls on personal movement, including more frequent military checkpoints, closer monitoring by military intelligence, and larger military garrisons, and hence more informal taxes, than comparable Burman areas. (references) | |
Political Economy | EGYPT | Private firms have also become active in airport upgrades and BOT airports in remote areas. (references) |
Political Rights | Philippines | The Communist NPA sharply raised its "access fee" to candidates who attempted to campaign in remote areas. (references) |
Suriname | The Maroons and Amerindians are concentrated in remote areas in the interior and therefore have limited access to, and influence on, the political process. (references) | |
Zambia | Police detained some unruly MMD supporters; the Government reportedly transferred some of the police officers to remote duty stations following the detentions. (references) | |
Trade | Burma | Despite sometimes onerous trade regulations, in actuality there is a tremendous amount of smuggling in and out of Burma, particularly across the long and often remote borders. (references) |
Switzerland | The federal government may grant long-term loans at preferential interest rates for a limited category of projects in designated regions threatened with economic decline (primarily remote, mountainous regions). (references) | |
Indonesia | Recent examples of TDA activity include $302,400 for a Gas Development/Procurement Plan, $249,000 for a demonstration of LIDAR Remote Imagining Technology, and $483,500 for a Wastewater Treatment Plant feasibility study on the island of Batam. (references) | |
Travel | Nepal | Illnesses and injuries suffered while on trek in remote areas often require rescue by helicopter. (references) |
Trinidad | Goods and services are regularly distributed throughout the island, even to the most remote areas. (references) | |
Thailand | In rural or remote areas cell coverage is spotty and only first class hotels have reliable land coverage. (references) | |
Women | Cameroon | Early marriage is prevalent especially in this remote province, and many young women face severe health risks from pregnancies as early as 13 or 14. (references) |
Brazil | However, reporting crimes and receiving help continue to be a problem for women living in remote areas who sometimes must travel great distances to the nearest special precinct. (references) | |
Yugoslavia | In some more remote rural areas, particularly among minority communities, women effectively lack the ability to exercise their right to control property and have custody of their children. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Russia | The more remote and impoverished the region the more vulnerable persons are to enticement. (references) |
Brazil | In a number of states, local unions register and track workers who leave the municipality to work on remote ranches. (references) | |
Brazil | Most instances of forced child labor occur when children accompany parents who are trapped in forced labor on remote worksites. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authenticity and authority. Sometimes it is stamped upon wax, and attached to the paper, sometimes into the paper itself. Sealing, in this sense, is a survival of an ancient custom of inscribing important papers with cabalistic words or signs to give them a magical efficacy independent of the authority that they represent. In the British museum are preserved many ancient papers, mostly of a sacerdotal character, validated by necromantic pentagrams and other devices, frequently initial letters of words to conjure with; and in many instances these are attached in the same way that seals are appended now. As nearly every reasonless and apparently meaningless custom, rite or observance of modern times had origin in some remote utility, it is pleasing to note an example of ancient nonsense evolving in the process of ages into something really useful. Our word "sincere" is derived from sine cero, without wax, but the learned are not in agreement as to whether this refers to the absence of the cabalistic signs, or to that of the wax with which letters were formerly closed from public scrutiny. Either view of the matter will serve one in immediate need of an hypothesis. The initials L.S., commonly appended to signatures of legal documents, mean locum sigillis, the place of the seal, although the seal is no longer used -- an admirable example of conservatism distinguishing Man from the beasts that perish. The words locum sigillis are humbly suggested as a suitable motto for the Pribyloff Islands whenever they shall take their place as a sovereign State of the American Union. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Europe has a set of primary interests which to use have none or a very remote relation. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The difficulties attending early emigrations will be dissipated even in the most remote parts. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | I am very sentible that this restriction is not as satisfactory as could be desired, and that much embarrassment may be caused to the executive department in its execution by appropriations for remote and not well-understood objects. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Abroad, the question is whether we have the staying power to fight a very costly war, when the objective is limited and the danger to us is seemingly remote. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This is essential for operations in remote areas of the world, where we cannot predict far in advance the precise location of trouble, or preposition equipment on land. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Remote" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Remote" is used about 2,864 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2,864 | 3,242 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Advanced Remote Communications Solution |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Remote, OR |
Expressions using "remote": a remote corner ♦ a remote relative ♦ automatic remote control ♦ in a remote spot ♦ Java Remote Method Protocol ♦ of remote ages ♦ operate by remote control ♦ remote access ♦ remote access data processing ♦ remote access point ♦ remote Access Services ♦ remote age ♦ remote aiming ♦ remote alarm indication ♦ remote alarming ♦ remote cause ♦ remote communication terminal ♦ remote compass ♦ Remote Consultation ♦ remote control ♦ remote control manipulator ♦ remote control system ♦ remote controlled ♦ remote corner ♦ remote Database Access ♦ remote delivery ♦ remote detection ♦ Remote diagnosis ♦ remote echo ♦ remote from ♦ remote future ♦ remote Job Entry ♦ remote login ♦ remote Method Invocation ♦ remote operation service ♦ remote operation service element ♦ remote operations ♦ remote operations notation ♦ remote Operations Service Element ♦ remote PBX ♦ remote possibility ♦ remote pressure gauge ♦ remote Procedure Call ♦ remote processing ♦ remote reading thermometer ♦ remote Reference Layer ♦ remote relation ♦ remote resemblance ♦ remote Spooling Communication Subsystem ♦ remote spot ♦ remote station ♦ remote switch ♦ remote switching system ♦ remote switching unit ♦ remote terminal ♦ remote village ♦ remote working ♦ remote Write Protocol. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "remote": remote-access data processing, remote-area, remote-control, remote-control car, remote-controled, remote-controlled, remote-node, remote-sensing, remote-sounding, remote-working. | |
Ending with "remote": semi-remote, statistically-remote, then-remote. | |
Containing "remote": non-remote-sensing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "remote"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | ver (afar, away, distant, far, far away, remotely). (various references) | |
Albanian | reportazh nga vendi, veprues në largësi, i vetmuar (bleak, cloistered, desolate, eremitic, lone, lonely, lonesome, out of the way, private, privy, recluse, retired, secluded, solitary), i mundshëm pak, i largët (distant, far, far off, faraway, long run, odd, off, out of the way, outer, removed, slight, vague, way out), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), distant. (various references) | |
Arabic | من بعد (afar), متباعد (distant, far, faraway, separate), ناء (devious, outlying), صغير (baby, diminutive, infinitesimal, little, lower case, minuscule, minute, niggling, petty, short, small, teeny, tiny, tiny bit, wee, young), بعيد (afield, away, distant, far, out of the way, soon after, unlikely). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | усамотен (isolated, lonely, private, retired, secluded, solitary, unfrequented), смътен (cloudy, dreamy, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, misty, obscure, shadowy, sneaking, unformed, vague), сдържан (aloof, buttoned up, chary, composed, continent, coy, distant, modest, offish, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, stand offish, taciturn, unaffable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, undramatic, unemotional, unsociable, unsocial), резервиран (aloof, distant, inapproachable, incommunicative, offish, reserved, reticent, retiring, self contained, stiff, undemonstrative), отдалечен (back, distant, far, far off, faraway, inland, off, out, out of the way, outlandish, outlying, removed, ulterior, unget-at-able), непряк (indirect, mediate, oblique, second hand), надменен (airy, aloof, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, haughty, high, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, proud-stomached, scornful, stand offish, stiff, stuck up, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty, uppish), малък (bijou, light, little, measurable, paltry, piccolo, pocket, slight, slim, small, tiddly, toy, venial, young), малко вероятен (dim, off, unlikely), действуващ от разстояние, далечен (alien, distant, far, faraway, long, long distance, out-, out of the way, outlying, removed), дистанционно управление (remote control, telecontrol). (various references) | |
Chinese | 遙遙 (distant), 遙遠 (distant), 遙 (distant, far, far away), 遥远 (Distant, faraway, remoteness), 邊遠 (far from the center, outlying), 邈 (profound), 迢 , 遠端 (distant, far end, remote end), 遠程 (long distance, long range), 遠 (distant, far), 渺 (vague). (various references) | |
Czech | zapadlý (bogged down, cavernous, godforsaken, hollow, sunken), vzdálený (distant, far, far flung, faraway, off, off the beaten track, outlying, remove), odlehlý (abstruse, far flung, far off, out of the way, out of way, outlying), nepřístupný (impervious, inaccessible, inapproachable, prohibitive, stand offish, standoffish, unapproachable, unget-at-able), malý (faint, little, minor, pokey, scant, short, slender, small, stingy, tight, tiny, young), dálkový (long range). (various references) | |
Danish | reportage (outside broadcast), satellitcentral (dependent exchange, remote switch, remote switching system, remote switching unit, satellite, satellite exchange), outside broadcast (outside broadcast), OB (business exchange, business telephone exchange, business telephone system, differentiated appropriations, office exchange, outside broadcast, private branch exchange), fjerntliggende, fjern-, afstands-, afsides (distant, far). (various references) | |
Dutch | ver (afar, distant, far, far away, incidental, long, remotely, side). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malproksima (distant, far), izolita, fora (distant, far). (various references) | |
Faeroese | fjarur (distant, far), fjarskotin (distant, far). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرت (Aback, Desultory, Faraway, Hurl, Solitary, Wide), متحرک (Gradient, Locomotive, Mobile, Versatile), کم (Infrequent, Junior, Light, Little, Low, Marginal, Rare, Scant, Scanty, Scarce, Scrimpy, Skimp, Slender, Slight, Small), جزءی (Immaterial, Imperceptible, Inappreciative, Inconsiderable, Inconspicuous, Little, Minuscule, Minute, Negligible, Nip, Nominal, Paltry, Partial, Peppercorn, Petty, Piddling, Retail, Rush, Small, Snatch, Trivial, Vain), دوردست (Far), دور (Aloof, Around, Away, Circuit, Distant, Meander, Orbit, Race, Wheel, Yonder), بعید (Far, Unlikely, Unseemly). (various references) | |
Finnish | ulkotuotanto (outside broadcast), ulkolähetys (outside broadcast), syrjäinen (distant, outlying, out-of-the-way), kaukainen (distant, far-away), etäis-, etäinen (distant), etä-. (various references) | |
French | lointain, distant. (various references) | |
Frisian | iensum, ienlik, fier (distant, far), efterôf (distant, far), beskaat (apart, particular, separate, special), apart (apart, particular, separate, special), ôfhandich. (various references) | |
German | entfernt (away, disconnected, dislodges, distant, distantly, far, off, remotely, removed, removes, slightly, vague), Fern- (long distance), fern (afar, aloof, distant, far, far off, faraway, long distance), entlegen (distant, far, far away, far off, out of the way, outlying), abgelegen (faraway, isolated, outlying, secluded, solitary). (various references) | |
Greek | κέντρο-δορυφόρος (dependent exchange, remote switch, remote switching system, remote switching unit, satellite exchange), ρεπορτάζ (commentary, reportage, reporting), μακρινόσ (distant, far, far off), μακρυνόσ (distance, outlying), υπόκεντρο (dependent exchange, remote switch, remote switching system, remote switching unit, satellite exchange), εξωτερική μετάδοση (outside broadcast), εξωτερική εκπομπή (outside broadcast), εξ, απόκεντρος (out of the way), απόμεροσ (retired, secluded), απόμακρος (distant, out of the way), απομεμακρυσμένοσ, απομακρυσμένος (distant), δορυφορικό κέντρο (dependent exchange, remote switch, remote switching system, remote switching unit, satellite exchange), ψυχρός (chill, cool, frigid, frosty, unemotional). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מופלג (distant, extreme, prominent, superlative), מרוחק (distant, far), נכחד (extinct, forgotten), נדח (banished, exiled, led astray, out of the way, solitary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | távoli (beyond the mark, distant, far, far off, faraway, far-off, off, outlying, removed). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terpencil (desolate, reclusive, solitary), jauh (afar, away, distant, far). (various references) | |
Italian | lontano (a long way, absent, afar, aloof, apart, away, back, distant, distantly, faint, far, far afield, far off, faraway, in the distance, off, slight, way, wide), distante (aloof, dislodges, distant, far, far away, faraway, off), remoto (back, distant, early, outlying, sequestered), isolato (block, detached, insulated, isolated, lone, lonely, private, secluded, solitary), a distanza (aloof). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 遼遠 (far-off), 遥遠 (far away, very far-off), 遥か (distant, far, far off, far-away), 遠隔性 , 遠隔 (distant, isolated), リムド鋼 (lute, rearcar, remake, remote car, remote control, remote directory, remote sensing, remote switch, rheumatism, rimland, rimmed steel, sledge), 僻遠 (outlying), 懸け隔たる (far apart, quite different), 天涯 (distant land, heavenly shores, horizon, skyline). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リモート , かけへだたる (far apart, quite different), りょうえん (far-off, good match), ようえん (far away, fascinating, heat haze, shimmer of hot air, very far-off, voluptuous), へきえん (outlying), はるか (distant, far, far off, far-away), えんかくせい, えんかく (development, distant, history, isolated). (various references) | |
Korean | 우원한. (various references) | |
Manx | joinagh (intentional, spontaneous, voluntary, wilful, willing), foddey veih, foddey jeh (afar, distant, far away), foddey (afar, distance, far, long, longterm, markedly, remotely), fadaneagh (boorish, isolated, out of the way, recluse, solitary, unfrequented; boor, wild, wild as terrain). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fjern (distant, far), ensom (dreary, gaunt, immense, lonely, lonesome). (various references) | |
Papiamen | leu (away, distant, far). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | emoteray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | remoto (ancient, asunder, away, back, distant, faraway, far-off, farthermost, long run, olden, out, outlandish, outlying, out-of-the-way), distante (apart, asunder, away, distant, far, faraway, long run, off, offish, outlandish, outlying, removed), afastado (aloof, away, devious, distant, ex-service, far-off, off, offscreen, outlandish, outlying, out-of-the-way, removed, retired, secluded, secret, straggling, unfrequented, withdrawn). (various references) | |
Romanian | retras (covert, drawn, lone, lonely, private, quiet, recluse, reserved, retired, retiring, secluded, seclusive, secret, separate, sequestered, solitary, unfrequented), vag (dim, distant, dull, dusty, evasive, evasively, faint, general, hazy, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, lax, loose, loosely, misty, muddy, nebulous, shadowy, sketchy, slight, vague, washy), solitar (hermit, lone, lone wolf, lonely, loner, recluse, single, solitarily, solitary), singuratic (desolate, forlorn, isolated, lone, lone wolf, lonely, loner, one-aloner, recluse, seclusive, secret, single, solitary), mãrginaş (adjacent, peripheral), izolat (apart, detached, isolated, lonely, lonesome, out of the way, private, removed, retired, scattered, secluded, seclusive, segregate, separate, sequestered, solitary, unfrequented), distant (chilly, distant, offish, stand offish), depãrtat (distant, far away, off, out, out of the way, outlying, secluded, solitary), afundat (sunken), abstract (abstract, abstractive, abstractly, abstruse, discrete, fine-spun, lunar, notionally, pure), îndepãrtat (bye, distant, high, long run, outlying, removed). (various references) | |
Russian | дистанционный. (various references) | |
Scottish | cian (foreign; also céin), céin (distant, remote; also cian). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zabačen (godforsaken, isolated, out of the way, outlying, removed), udaljen (distant, far off, farther, farthest, out of the way, outlying, removed), slab (dickey, dicky, feckless, feeble, flabby, frail, infirm, languid, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, poor, powerless, punk, short, sickly, slim, tenuous, thin, trick, undernourished, unlikely, washy, weak), povučen (aloof, coy, demure, recluse, reticent, retiring, undemonstrative, unobtrusive, withdrawn), daljinski, dalek (alien, aloof, far, far flung, far off, faraway, farther, removed). (various references) | |
Spanish | remoto (ancient, distant, far, far off, faraway, lonely, outside, removed), lejano (distant, far, far off, faraway, farther, out of the way, outlying, vital), apartado (aloof, head, headland, off, paragraph, separated), aislado (abandonee, cut off, detached, insulated, isolated, lonely, off the beaten track, one off, outlying, private, secluded, segregated, separate). (various references) | |
Sranan | fara (distant, far). (various references) | |
Swedish | avlägsen (distant, far, far away, far off, far out, faraway, far-off, out of the way, outlying, outlying land, removed). (various references) | |
Tagalog | malayò (away, distant, far). (various references) | |
Turkish | uzak (a long way off, afar, aloof, away, back, distant, far, far away, far off, faraway, insofar, off, out of the way, outlandish, outlying, recluse, standoffish). (various references) | |
Turkmen | daюlykdaky. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відлюдний (ascetic, close, coy, lonely, morose, obscure, offish, recluse, retired, shut in, unsociable, unsocial), віддалений (abstracted, away, back, distant, far, far off, in the distance, off, out, out of the way, outlying, secluded, wide), давній (long standing, old, old-established, once). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xa xăm xa cách, xa xôi (devious, far-off, out-of-the-way), xa (afar, away, car, distant, far-flung, removed), mơ hồ thoang thoáng, hơi (draught, rather, slightly, somewhat, unexhausted, vapour), chút đỉnh. (various references) | |
Welsh | pellennig (distant, far), pell (afar, aloof, distant, far, long), anghysbell (out of the way). (various references) | |
Zulu | -de (distant, far, long). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abditis, abdito, alta, alti, altis, alto, altum, devius, longinqua, longinquae, longinquam, longinquo, longinquum, longinquus, reposita, repositae, repositam, repositi, repositum, repositus, secreta, secrete, secretiora, secretiori, secretis, secreto, secretorum, secretum. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | parô-asna. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 21, Verse 33 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Allhn parabolhn akousate anqrwpoV tiV hn oikodespothV ostiV efuteusen ampelwna kai fragmon autw perieqhken kai wruxen en autw lhnon kai wkodomhsen purgon kai exedoto auton gewrgoiV kai apedhmhsen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Aliam parabolam audite homo erat pater familias qui plantavit vineam et sepem circumdedit ei et fodit in ea torcular et aedificavit turrem et locavit eam agricolis et peregre profectus est |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ge-herað nu oðer byspel. Sumhyrdes ealdor wæs. se plantedewingeard. & be-tynde hine & sætte þær-onwinwrengen & ge-tymbrede ænne stepel.& ge-sette þane mid eorðetylian. & ferde oneall-þeodignysse. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Here ye another parable. There was an hosebonde man, that plauntide a vynyerd, and heggide it aboute, and dalfe a presour ther ynne, and bildide a tour, and hiride it to erthe tilieris, and wente fer in pilgrimage. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Herken another similitude. Ther was a certayne housholder which planted a vineyarde and hedged it roude about and made a wynpresse in it and bilt a tower and let it out to husbandmen and wet in to a straunge coutre. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Hear another parable; There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it around, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a remote country: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 21, Verse 33 |
| Cebuano | ¶ "Patalinghugi ninyo ang lain pang sambingay. May usa ka pangulo sa panimalay nga nagtanum ug kaparrasan ug kini iyang gipalibutan ug paril, gibuhatan ug pigsanan sa parras, gibuhatan ug usa ka lantawanan, ug gipasaopan niya kini sa mga tawo, ug unya milangyaw siya ngadto sa laing dapit. |
| Chinese | 你 們 再 聽 一 個 比 喻 . 有 個 家 主 、 栽 了 一 個 葡 萄 園 、 周 圍 圈 上 籬 笆 、 裡 面 挖 了 一 個 壓 酒 池 、 蓋 了 一 座 樓 、 租 給 園 戶 、 就 往 外 國 去 了 。 |
| Croatian | "Drugu prispodobu èujte! Bijaše neki domaæin koji posadi vinograd, ogradi ga ogradom, iskopa u njemu tijesak i podiže kulu pa ga iznajmi vinogradarima i otputova. |
| Danish | Hører en anden Lignelse: Der var en Husbond, som plantede en Vingård og satte et Gærde omkring den og gravede en Perse i den og byggede et Tårn; og han lejede den ud til Vingårdsmænd og drog udenlands. |
| Dutch | Hoort een andere gelijkenis. Er was een heer des huizes, die een wijngaard plantte, en zette een tuin daarom, en groef een wijnpersbak daarin, en bouwde een toren, en verhuurde dien den landlieden, en reisde buiten 's lands. |
| Finnish | Kuulkaa toinen vertaus: Oli perheenisäntä, joka istutti viinitarhan ja teki aidan sen ympärille ja kaivoi siihen viinikuurnan ja rakensi tornin; ja hän vuokrasi sen viinitarhureille ja matkusti muille maille. |
| French | Écoutez une autre parabole. Il y avait un homme, maître de maison, qui planta une vigne. Il l`entoura d`une haie, y creusa un pressoir, et bâtit une tour; puis il l`afferma à des vignerons, et quitta le pays. |
| German | Höret ein anderes Gleichnis: Es war ein Hausvater, der pflanzte einen Weinberg und führte einen Zaun darum und grub eine Kelter darin und baute einen Turm und tat ihn den Weingärtnern aus und zog über Land. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Dengarkan perumpamaan yang satu ini lagi," kata Yesus. "Seorang tuan tanah menanami sebidang kebun anggur. Ia memasang pagar di sekelilingnya, dan menggali lubang untuk alat pemeras anggur, kemudian mendirikan menara jaga. Sesudah itu ia menyewakan kebun anggur itu kepada penggarap-penggarap, lalu berangkat ke negeri lain. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | "Dengarlah suatu perumpamaan yang lain: Bahwa adalah seorang tuan rumah membuka kebun anggur, dipagarnya sekeliling, dan digalinya tempat apitan anggur, dan didirikannya suatu bangun-bangun, lalu disewakannya kebun itu kepada beberapa orang dusun, serta pergi ke negeri yang lain. |
| Latvian | Klausieties citu lîdzîbu! Bija cilvçks, nama tçvs, kas iestâdîja vîna dârzu un ieþogoja to, un izraka tanî vîna spiedi, un uzcçla torni, un iznomâja to strâdniekiem, bet pats aizceïoja tâlumâ. |
| Manx Gaelic | Eaisht-jee rish coraa-dorraghey elley: Va fer-thie dy row ren garey-feeyney y hoiaghey, as ren eh cleigh y yannoo mysh, as chleiy eh press-feeyney ayn, as hrog eh toor, as hoie eh eh rish tannys, as hie eh gys cheer foddey. |
| Maori | ¶ Whakarongo ki tetahi atu kupu whakarite: Tera tetahi rangatira whare i whakato i te mara waina, a taiepatia ana a taka noa, keria ana e ia te takahanga waina i roto, hanga ana tetahi whare tiketike, tukua ana e ia ki nga kaimahi, a haere ana ia ki tawhiti: |
| Norwegian | Hør en annen lignelse: Det var en husbond som plantet en vingård, og han satte et gjerde omkring den og gravde en vinperse i den og bygget et tårn, og så leide han den ut til vingårdsmenn og drog utenlands. |
| Portuguese | Ouvi ainda outra parábola: Havia um homem, proprietário, que plantou uma vinha, cercou-a com uma sebe, cavou nela um lagar, e edificou uma torre; depois arrendou-a a uns lavradores e ausentou-se do país. |
| Rumanian | Ascultayi o altq pildq. Era un om, un gospodar, care a sqdit o vie. A kmprejmuit -o cu un gard, a sqpat un teasc kn ea, wi a zidit un turn. Apoi a dat -o unor vieri, wi a plecat kn altq yarq. |
| Russian | чЩУМХЫБКФЕ ДТХЗХА РТЙФЮХ: ВЩМ ОЕЛПФПТЩК ИПЪСЙО ДПНБ, ЛПФПТЩК ОБУБДЙМ ЧЙОПЗТБДОЙЛ, ПВОЕУ ЕЗП ПЗТБДПА, ЧЩЛПРБМ Ч ОЕН ФПЮЙМП, РПУФТПЙМ ВБЫОА Й, ПФДБЧ ЕЗП ЧЙОПЗТБДБТСН, ПФМХЮЙМУС. |
| Shuar | ¶ `Ju Chíkich áujmatmasha antuktarum. Nunká nérentin uwa ajan ajammai. Tura wenuimiai. Uwa neketaincha najanamai. Kumpin jeancha najanamai. Tura mash pénker iwiar shuar Wáitrukarti tusa apujkimiai. Tura ninkia Yajá nunkanam wemai. |
| Swahili | Yesu akasema, "Sikilizeni mfano mwingine. Mtu mmoja mwenye nyumba alilima shamba la mizabibu; akalizungushia ukuta, akachimba kisima cha kusindikia divai, akajenga humo mnara pia. Kisha akalikodisha kwa wakulima, akasafiri kwenda nchi ya mbali. |
| Swedish | Hören nu en annan liknelse: En husbonde planterade en vingård, och han satte stängsel omkring den och högg ut ett presskar därinne och byggde ett vakttorn; därefter lejde han ut den åt vingårdsmän och for utrikes. |
| Uma | ¶ Na'uli' wo'o-mi Yesus mpo'uli' -raka pangkeni agama Yahudi: "Epe wo'o-koi lolita rapa' tohe'i. Ria hadua pue' bonea mpohu'ai bonea-na hante anggur. Nawala ntololikia-na, nababehi pompeaa' anggur, pai' natunya' wo'o pongko pompodooa. Oti toe, napewai' bonea-na rapobago hi ba hangkuja dua tauna, pai' hilou-imi hi ngata to molaa. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "remote": remotely, remoteness, remotenesses, remoter, remotes, remotest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "remote": overemote. (additional references) | |
Words containing "remote": overemoted, overemotes. (additional references) | |
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"Remote" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bramcote, Erdmute, Melmotte, Redmate, rehome, relote, remate, remo, remode, remole, remore, remot, Remtox, Renette, renole, renot, rmote, romusha, Rycote, tremoto, Xremote. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "remote" (pronounced rumō"t or rēmō"t) |
| 5 | r u m ō" t | promote. |
| 3 | -m ō" t | demote, moat, mote. |
| 3 | -m ō" t | demote, moat, mote, promote. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: emoter, meteor. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-m-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: emote, meter, metre, metro, remet, retem. | |
-2 letters: meet, mere, mete, more, mort, mote, omer, rete, rote, teem, term, tome, tore, tree. | |
-3 letters: eme, ere, met, mor, mot, ore, ort, ree, rem, ret, roe, rom, rot, tee, toe, tom, tor. | |
-4 letters: em, er, et, me, mo, oe, om, or, re, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-m-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: emoters, meteors, remoter, remotes, theorem. | |
+2 letters: comether, ectoderm, ectomere, entoderm, fomenter, foretime, fretsome, geometer, geometry, mentored, meteoric, moderate, modester, molester, mothered, motleyer, odometer, ohmmeter, orometer, overmelt, overtame, overtime, remotely, remotest, roomette, routemen, somerset, telomere, theorems, tiresome, udometer. | |
+3 letters: aerometer, atmometer, barometer, bolometer, comethers, completer, contemner, dermatome, dosimeter, durometer, ectoderms, ectomeres, ectotherm, elastomer, endotherm, enrolment, entoderms, ergometer, extempore, fermentor, flowmeter, fomenters, forcemeat, foretimes, gasometer, geometers, geometric, geometrid, hammertoe, heartsome, heteronym, kilometer, latecomer, majorette, manometer, meliorate, memoriter, mentioner, merozoite, meteorite, meteoroid, metronome, metroplex, moderated, moderates, modernest, moistener, molesters, monoester, monometer, monotreme, mortgagee, nanometer, octameter, odometers, ohmmeters, orometers, osmeteria, osmometer, overemote, overmelts, overtimed, overtimes, oystermen, pedometer, peristome, petroleum, potometer, preemptor, pyrometer, recompute, reformate, remoisten, remounted, rheometer, roomettes, rotameter, rousement, salometer, smothered, somersets, telomeres, temblores, temporise, temporize, therefrom, thermoses, thermoset, threesome, tonometer, tormented, tormenter, trematode, tremolite, treponema, treponeme, udometers, voltmeter, volumeter. | |
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