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remote
1. adj. Lointain, distant (au propre et au figuré).
A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.
After her mother's death, my friend grew remote for a time while she dealt with her grief.
2. n. (Popu) Télécommande.
I hate it when my uncle comes over to visit; he always sits in the best chair and hogs the remote.
anglais > anglais
remote
1. adj. At a distance; disconnected.
A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.
2. adj. Distant or otherwise inaccessible.
After his fall from the emperor's favor, the general was posted to a remote outpost.
3. adj. (especially with respect to likelihood) Slight.
There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes.
4. adj. Emotionally detached.
After her mother's death, my friend grew remote for a time while she dealt with her grief.
5. n. ellipsis of remote control
I hate it when my uncle comes over to visit; he always sits in the best chair and hogs the remote.
6. n. (broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
7. v. (computing) To connect to a computer from a remote location.

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He lived in a house remote from the village.      Il vivait dans une maison éloignée du village. He sought serenity, closeted in study, remote from the wear and tear of the world.      Il cherchait la sérénité, enfermé dans l'étude, loin du bruit et de l'agitation du monde. Do you have the remote?      Est-ce que t'as la télécommande ? Living as he did in the remote countryside, he seldom came into town.      En vivant comme il le faisait dans une campagne éloignée, il montait rarement à la ville. Someone said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.      Quelqu'un a dit : « les écrivains morts sont éloignés de nous parce que nous en savons tellement davantage qu'eux ne savaient. » Précisément, et ils sont ce que nous savons.

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