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
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
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
That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
Henry Knox
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
W. H. Auden
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
I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.
Julie Walters
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
Donald Judd
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
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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