different between remove vs rob

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)

1. (transitive) To delete.
2. (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.
   1. (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
3. (transitive) To murder.
4. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
5. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
6. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
7. (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?

8. 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)

1. The act of removing something.
   • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

     And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
2. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
3. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
4. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
5. Distance in time or space; interval.
6. (figuratively, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
7. (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.

8. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants

     His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Latin

Verb

remov?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of remove?

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?vi

Verb

remove

1. third-person singular present indicative of remover
2. second-person singular imperative of remover

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?b, IPA^(key): /??b/
• Rhymes: -?b
• (US) enPR: räb, IPA^(key): /??b/

Etymology 1

From Middle English robben, from Anglo-Norman robber, rober, Old French rober (“to rob”), from Medieval Latin raub? (“to rob, steal, plunder”), from Frankish *raub?n, *r?b?n (compare Dutch roven) and Old High German roub?n, raub?n (“to rob, steal, plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *raub?n?. Doublet of reave.

Verb

rob (third-person singular simple present robs, present participle robbing, simple past and past participle robbed)

1. (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.

2. (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
3. (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).

   • Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

4. (transitive, slang) To burgle.
   • 2008, National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Sept 4, 2008

     Her house was robbed.

5. (transitive, Britain, slang) To steal.

   That chav robbed my phone!

6. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
7. (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.

Derived terms

Related terms

• reave, bereave
• rip
• rubble, rubbish

Translations

Etymology 2

From French [Term?]; compare Spanish rob, Italian rob, robbo, Portuguese robe, arrobe, Persian ?????? (present stem: robâ) and also similar in Arabic.

Alternative forms

• rhob, rohob

Noun

rob (uncountable)

1. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.

Anagrams

• BOR, Bor, Bor., ORB, bor, bro, bro., orb

Afar

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Somali róob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ob/
• Hyphenation: rob

Noun

rób m 

1. rain

Declension

References

• Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar?^[1], Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington (doctoral thesis)., page 5
• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985) , “rob”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, ?ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 171

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [r?p]

Noun

rob (plural robbe)

1. seal (pinniped)

Synonyms

• (seal): seehond

Albanian

Etymology

From a South Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian rob, Macedonian ??? (rob), Bulgarian ??? (rob), ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *orb? (“servant, slave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??b]
• IPA^(key): [???b] (Gheg)

Noun

rob m (indefinite plural robër, definite singular robi, definite plural robërit)

1. (historical) slave
2. (historical) serf
3. prisoner of war
4. (figurative, derogatory) servant

rob m (indefinite plural rob, definite singular robi, definite plural robtë)

1. person, family member

Synonyms

• skllav, shërbëtor

Derived terms

• robëri, robëreshë, robinjë, robëroj, robi

References

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• rop

Etymology

From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *orb? (“slave”). Compare Daco-Romanian rob.

Noun

rob m (plural roghi, feminine equivalent roabã)

1. slave

Synonyms

• sclav

Derived terms

• rubuescu

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rop/
• Rhymes: -op
• Homophone: rop

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *orb? (“servant, slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erb?- (“orphan, child slave or servant”)..Compare English robot and Serbo-Croatian rob.

Noun

rob m

1. (obsolete) slave, serf

Declension

Synonyms

• nevolník
• otrok
• rab

Derived terms

• rab
• rob?v

Related terms

• roba
• rob?
• robit
• robota
• robot

Etymology 2

Noun

rob f

1. genitive plural of roba

Etymology 3

Verb

rob

1. second-person singular imperative of robit

See also

• robte

Anagrams

• bor
• obr

References

Further reading

• rob in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• rob in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?p/
• Hyphenation: rob
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

Uncertain; compare English rabbit. Or, possibly related to Latvian rups (“coarse, rough”), referring to the whiskers. Also compared is the personal name Robbe. Has also compared to English rub, referring to seals' movements, but this is unlikely.

Noun

rob m (plural robben, diminutive robbetje n)

1. seal, any member of the family Phocidae

   Synonym: zeehond

Derived terms

• blaasrob
• kegelrob
• klapmutsrob
• manenrob
• pelsrob
• ringelrob
• stinkrob
• zadelrob
• zeerob

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rob

Etymology 2

Uncertain; compare English rabbit, as well as English rub, referring to the fur. Or, from Proto-West Germanic *reufan (“to tear”), hinted by the animals' digging of tunnels.

Noun

rob f (plural robben, diminutive robbeken n)

1. (Belgium) rabbit

   Synonym: konijn

Alternative forms

• robbe

Further reading

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010) , “rob1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute (seal)
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010) , “rob5”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute (rabbit)

Middle English

Noun

rob

1. Alternative form of robe

Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *orb? (“slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?órb?os (“orphan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rob/
• Rhymes: -ob

Noun

rob m (plural robi, feminine equivalent roab?)

1. slave

Declension

Synonyms

• sclav

Derived terms

• robie
• robi
• dezrobi

See also

• ?erb

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From West Slavic dialects, from Proto-Slavic *orb? (“slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?órb?os (“orphan”). Compare English robot and Russian ??????? (rabóta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rôb/

Noun

r?b m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. slave

Declension

References

• “rob” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rop]

Verb

rob

1. second-person singular imperative of robi?

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *r?b?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ró?p/

Noun

r??b m inan

1. border, edge

   Synonym: kónec

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ró?p/

Noun

r??b m anim

1. (obsolete) slave

   Synonym: súženj

Spanish

Etymology

See arrope

Noun

rob m (plural robes)

1. fruit syrup

Related terms

• arrope