Definition of Remote

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Remote

Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.

Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.

Not agreeing; alien; foreign.

Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.

Separate; abstracted.

Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.

Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.

Separated by intervals greater than usual.

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Remote Quotations

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.
Jerry Garcia

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Paul Klee

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
W. H. Auden

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
Daniel Day-Lewis

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
Sargent Shriver

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
Jared Diamond

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
Jared Diamond

The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
Carter Burwell

Remote Translations

remote in Afrikaans is ver
remote in Dutch is verwijderd, ververwijderd, ver
remote in German is abgelegen, Fern.., entfernt/fern, Fern-, entfernt
remote in Italian is distante, vasto
remote in Norwegian is ensom, fjern
remote in Portuguese is remoto
remote in Spanish is vasto, remoto, lejano

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