Category:Remove

Re*move" (r-mv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Removed (-mvd"); p. pr. & vb. N. Removing.] Etym: [of. removoir, remouvoir, l. removere, remotum; Pref. re- re- + movere to move. See move.]

1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; To displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, i generally Ordered the table to be removed. Goldsmith.

2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to Take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; As, to remove a disease. "king richard thus removed." Shak.

3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the president removed Many postmasters.

Note: see the note under remove, v. i.

Remove Re*move" (r-mv"), v. i.

Defn: to change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to Move or go from one residence, position, or place to another. Till birnam wood remove to dunsinane, i can not taint with fear. Shak.

Note: the verb remove, in some of its application, is synonymous with Move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply remove to a mere change of Posture, without a change of place or the seat of a thing. A man Moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but He does not remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of Place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular, continued course Or motion. We never say the wind or water, or a ship, removes at a Certain rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from one Place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic term, including the Sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one Station or permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.

Remove Re*move", n.

1. The act of removing; a removal. This place should be at once both school and university, not needing A remove to any other house of scholarship. Milton. And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. Goldsmith.

2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, From one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the united States usually called a move. It is an english proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. J. H. Newman.

3. The state of being removed. Locke.

4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room For something else.

5. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; Distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; Specifically, a division in an english public school; as, the boy Went up two removes last year. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. Addison.

6. (far.)

Defn: the act of resetting a horse's shoe. Swift.