Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Removed; distant.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of remote.

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Examples

  • It took a second computer: When she first remoted in, my carefully-crafted mood music went silent. iChat shuts down when you make calls, and trying to force the music ejected the player every time.

    Telepresence around the game table 2010

  • Nothing around us and one of those remoted places where the land was so flat, you could see the curvature of the earth.

    We have landed, on to see the In-Laws! Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • By sending Ali to Phoenix, they had seen to it that she was safely out of the way, not so much demoted as remoted.

    TRIAL BY FIRE J.A. JANCE 2009

  • These relationships were solid enough so that when the CP site became unmanned and observations were remoted to the new Rockefeller Center location of the NYC WX Office, we could spot a temperature sensor drift within a day or two.

    Central Park: Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? « Climate Audit 2007

  • A lot of these things are remoted horizontally as well as vertically for command and control and communications.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2003 2003

  • Nellie remoted beautiful actors who were shoving a rhinoceros aside with their imported pickup to wherever it was remoted beautiful actors go when their screen gets switched off.

    Just a Corpse at Twilight Van de Wetering, Janwillem, 1931- 1994

  • "Sure I'll nourish him wid the whip whin I get him to a more remoted place."

    Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • Knockarney House is in a wild, remoted place at the back of beyant, and faix we're as much alone as Robinson Crusoe on a dissolute island; but when we do be wishful to go to the town, sure there's ivery convaniency.

    Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • The catchphrase on campus is "roka" - short for "remoted controlled" - education.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • The catchphrase on campus is "roka" - short for "remoted controlled" - education.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

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