different between remove vs offcast
remove
English
Etymology
From Middle English remeven, removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin remov?re, from re- + mov?re (“to move”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???mu?v/
- Rhymes: -u?v
Verb
remove (third-person singular simple present removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed)
- (transitive) To delete.
- (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
- 1560, Geneva Bible, The Geneva Bible#page/n182 Deuteronomy 19:14:
- Thou ?halt not remoue thy neighbours marke, which thei of olde time haue ?et in thine inheritance, that thou ?halt inherit the lãd, which the Lord thy God giueth the to po??e??e it.
- (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
- 1560, Geneva Bible, The Geneva Bible#page/n182 Deuteronomy 19:14:
- (transitive) To murder.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
- (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.
- 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p.20:
- Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
- I am going to remove. / Where are you going to remove to? / I don't know yet. / When will you know?
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- unstay
Antonyms
- (move something from one place to another): settle, place, add
Derived terms
- removable
- removal
- removalist
- remover
Translations
Noun
remove (plural removes)
- The act of removing something.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
- And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
- (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
- (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- (figuratively, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
- 1855, John Henry Newman, Callista
- It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
- 1855, John Henry Newman, Callista
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Latin
Verb
remov?
- second-person singular present active imperative of remove?
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?vi
Verb
remove
- third-person singular present indicative of remover
- second-person singular imperative of remover
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offcast
English
Alternative forms
- off-cast
Etymology
From Middle English ofcasten, equivalent to off- +? cast. Cognate with Danish afkaste (“to shed”), Swedish avkasta (“to crop, throw off, yield”).
The noun is possibly derived from Middle English ofcast (“the refuse of plants”).
Verb
offcast (third-person singular simple present offcasts, present participle offcasting, simple past and past participle offcast)
- (transitive) to cast off; shed.
- (transitive, theater, television) to remove from the cast of a production.
- 1985, Tino Balio, The American film industry:
- The experiment to offcast Davis began in 1937 with That Certain Woman; "She's a lady," we are told.
- 1997, Ann M. Sperber, Eric Lax, Bogart:
- [...] and Paramount was not inclined to offcast its stars, the story was dropped.
- 2015, Emily Carman, Independent Stardom:
- White actresses were able to maintain a more multidimensional star persona than actresses of color, thanks in large part to their ability to off-cast themselves in challenging roles and control their off-screen image through publicity.
- 1985, Tino Balio, The American film industry:
Noun
offcast (plural offcasts)
- That which is rejected as useless.
Anagrams
- cast off, cast-off, castoff
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