I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a remote/faint possibility (= something that is not very likely )
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There's no point worrying about such a remote possibility.
a remote/isolated area (= a long way from towns and cities )
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a remote area of northeast Afghanistan
an outside/a remote chance (= a very small chance )
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He still has an outside chance of winning the championship.
remote access
remote control
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a missile guided by remote control
remote interrogation
remote sensing
remote working
remote (= far from any towns )
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There’s a remote cottage in the mountains where we go for walking holidays.
remote (= far away )
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I remember visiting a remote island off the west coast of Ireland.
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The islands were so remote that they could only be reached at certain times of the year.
remote (= one that is far away from larger towns )
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We need to get food aid to the more remote villages.
the distant/remote past
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Rivers of molten lava clearly flowed here in the distant past.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
access
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The new ScaNet/RemotePC is designed to give ScaNet users remote access from personal computers via a modem.
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There is also no character-based interface for remote access making it clumsy as a server.
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This ability to share the desktop has many useful features, like allowing remote access to your office computer.
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Auto-dialling and remote access is possible from touch-tone telephones and electronic mail and voice-mail functions may be incorporated at a later date.
ancestor
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Its genes also hint at its remote ancestors .
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Our remote ancestors took two hundred million years to learn how to adapt to the land.
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Our remote ancestors were among those who found it expedient to change and diversify.
area
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Darlington Community Health Council yesterday discussed the problem of delays in reaching patients who live in the more remote areas of Teesdale.
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There is more at stake here than just bringing boxes of sophisticated equipment to remote areas .
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The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas .
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Those living in the more remote area like Albany, where I did my first workshop, are truly isolated.
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School became standard, even in remote areas .
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But they do kill more of the lay people in the remote areas .
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He chose accessible routes, found accommodations in remote areas and was knowledgeable about local plants, animals and customs.
chance
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But they also knew there was a remote chance that their efforts might help to prevent catastrophe.
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I was naïve enough to think it had a remote chance .
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Powell only has a remote chance of playing, for Reilly's squad has retained its shape and strength.
computer
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Applications include mobile facsimile, data sharing and transfer and remote computer access.
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You can do this when the terminal window is active, before you dial the remote computer .
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The real work is being done by remote computers on the Web.
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The large central section of the window displays the remote computer bulletin board.
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For example, users can tell the authentication server with which remote computer they want to converse.
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It Chapter 5 205 sends two encrypted tokens: one for the user and another to send to the remote computer .
control
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Specification is high - remote control central locking and electric windows.
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Any flip of the remote control will serve up countless images of graphic violence.
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He would need a hired watcher for that, or a camera operated by remote control .
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Batut, whose work predates radio remote control , triggered his shutter by the use of slow burning fuse.
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I particularly liked the detachable remote control unit which not only allows you to operate the shutter but also the zoom.
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The handset looks like an elongated remote control and weighs only 1 pound.
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I roll a joint and fall into bed with my remote control .
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Players have a remote control and can channel surf to the channel they want to play on.
corner
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As the city slumbers, a slum area in a remote corner of the metropolis goes up in flames.
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There were no blurry eyes, no one-on-one sessions with the assistant coaches in a remote corner .
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They flip from one airport to another collecting and dumping in remote corners , removed from passenger terminals.
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Obscured by clouds and rain in remote corners of croplands, they damaged little more than anthills or irrigation networks.
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Nobody is quite sure what is happening in remote corners of KwaZulu-Natal like Izingolweni.
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Sibley lives in a remote corner of a remote mountain chain in the wilds of Arizona.
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Much more impact can be made by delving into the remote corners of society in pursuit of the exotic.
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A question bubbled from some remote corner of his brain, as uncomfortable as the children's sores.
location
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Personal computers are now commonly found in site huts, even in remote locations where they can be powered by car batteries.
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As might be expected, phone companies are major advocates and practitioners of working from home or other remote locations .
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A lot of the places where Ann and I fish are in remote locations .
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These can give people who have to live in certain remote locations a slightly better chance of obtaining appropriate accommodation.
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They are not particularly high, but very elegant and their remote location makes a visit a must.
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Those responsible for running major contracts in more remote locations may be on a bachelor status with more frequent air tickets.
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Because of the remote location , Stornoway Fire Brigade members were flown in by helicopter.
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The computer systems at the Grid Control Centre are supported by standby facilities on site and at a remote location .
past
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It may be that the old pictographic signs acquired a special magic power associated with the remote past .
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Besides the cyclical view and the progressive, there was the important tradition concerning a Golden Age in the remote past .
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He brings us literally face to face with the remote past .
possibility
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It had been a remote possibility , but it had existed.
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But that remote possibility , he knew, had already been examined and dismissed.
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On the other hand, there is just the remote possibility that some one will invent it tomorrow.
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The pipeline is no longer a remote possibility .
village
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Amelie pushed on through Dax, stopping overnight in remote villages and negotiating the various command posts nervously.
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As he had a car he invariably conducted those in the more remote villages such as Carlton, Dean, Millbrook and Riseley.
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Transports in and out carrying shipments of rice that were dropped into remote villages .
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Up in the remote villages they would be reason ably safe and the people would help them.
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During my stay in a remote village in Kangwon Province, watching me shampoo my hair became a spectacle.
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Ted Smith owned a smallholding in a remote village in South Lincolnshire.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Analysts say a political solution is more remote than ever.
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Peter's father was always remote and silent around his family.
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Space probes operate in dark, cold, remote parts of the solar system.
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The chances of such an accident happening again are very remote .
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The helicopter crashed in a remote desert area.
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The plane went down in a remote forest area.
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The procedure was monitored with remote cameras.
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There is a remote possibility the program could be halted, if funding were cut.
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There is only a remote prospect of peace in the region.
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They moved to a remote farmhouse in North Wales.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they submitted that the damage was too remote .
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In Izmir, passengers transfer to a 70-foot yacht that sails along the coast, anchoring at remote bays and villages.
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It is your public name on the remote system, and you generally create it the first time you call in.
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Much effort went into tracing remote family connections abroad on the off chance of identifying a benefactor.
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On stage vacuum control for remote rotation is available if required.
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The problems of getting copy on to the system from a remote source was, therefore, already solved.
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The real work is being done by remote computers on the Web.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I try three remotes before one works.