Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Remote in space or time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Faraway; distant; remote.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Remote. Cf. Far-off, under
far , adv. - adjective remote in time.
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- adjective
remote , either in time or space
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective very far away in space or time
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Examples
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I never heard her voice raised except to call a far-off child or a wandering dog; and even in a packed house with fifteen mouths to feed and six or eight to bed down that night, she never showed a trace of reluctance.
CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988
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I never heard her voice raised except to call a far-off child or a wandering dog; and even in a packed house with fifteen mouths to feed and six or eight to bed down that night, she never showed a trace of reluctance.
CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988
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The production is aided by Jon Gaw's unusually functional and evocative set that situates the characters in what amounts to the base of a isosceles triangle whose tip extends indefinitely into a far-off vanishing point, suggesting both a going-nowhere claustrophobia as well as the prospect of infinite hope.
James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton James Scarborough 2011
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The Japanese, for example, might decide that they'd like to preserve their relatively new ISS module; when they explain this to NASA and the US State Department, should we really hear far-off cries of Tora Tora Tora!
Russia Sees Future for its ISS Modules Beyond 2020 - NASA Watch 2009
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The production is aided by Jon Gaw's unusually functional and evocative set that situates the characters in what amounts to the base of a isosceles triangle whose tip extends indefinitely into a far-off vanishing point, suggesting both a going-nowhere claustrophobia as well as the prospect of infinite hope.
James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton James Scarborough 2011
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The production is aided by Jon Gaw's unusually functional and evocative set that situates the characters in what amounts to the base of a isosceles triangle whose tip extends indefinitely into a far-off vanishing point, suggesting both a going-nowhere claustrophobia as well as the prospect of infinite hope.
James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton James Scarborough 2011
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The far-off explosions gently shaking the building, reminding me that people might be dying while I was safe in bed.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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The far-off explosions gently shaking the building, reminding me that people might be dying while I was safe in bed.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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The picture, like all of youth's impressions, was still strong with him, and his dim eyes watched the end played out as vividly as in that far-off time.
THE LAW OF LIFE 2010
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I let my gaze go slightly fuzzy, the blue of my eyes fading into the glass of the mirror, the pale, freckled face curving away into some far-off piece of my past.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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