See Also: remove(medicine)
remove(1)(dictionary)
remove(2)(dictionary)
remove 1, verb(dictionary)
remove 2, noun(dictionary)

remove(1) (iou)



remove noun. E16.
[from the verb.]
The action or an act of dismissing a person from a position or office. Now rare. E16.
b. The action of getting rid of a person by killing; murder. L16-M17.
c. The raising of a siege. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
a. The action of taking away or getting rid of a thing. L16-L17.
b. Farriery. A procedure in which a horse's shoe is taken off, the hoof trimmed or dressed, and the shoe replaced; (now dial.) an old shoe used over again. L16.
c. The action or an act of taking away a dish or course at a meal in order to bring on another in its place; esp. a dish taken away or brought on in this way. arch. L18.
The action of moving a thing from one place to another. Now rare. L16.
The action or an act of changing one's place, esp. one's residence; departure to another place. Now rare. L16.
b. A period of absence from a place. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
a. The action or an act of transferring a person from one office or post to another; the fact of being so transferred. E17-M18.
b. A promotion of a pupil to a higher form or division in some schools. M17.
A. Brazil I make up my mind every term I'm going to win a double remove.
c. A certain form or division of a form in some schools. M18.
a. A space or interval by which one person or thing is remote from another in time, place, condition, etc.; a distance. E17.
Listener At this remove I cannot recall many of the variations. V. Gornick I became..a prisoner yearning down at the street below, my sense of remove then overpowering.
b. A stage in gradation; a degree (away). M17.
L. MacNeice The people the hero wants to get at..are always at several removes.
c. A degree in descent or blood relationship. M18.
M. Fitzherbert A first cousin to Aubrey at one remove.
d. Typography. The number of sizes by which the type of a footnote or side-note is smaller than that of the text; transf. a footnote, a side-note. L19.