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.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. --Swift.
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.
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.