Unload vs Remove - What's the difference?
unload | remove |
To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
To deposit one's load or cargo.
* 1998 , Robert A Corbitt, Standard handbook of environmental engineering
(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express.
* 1984 , John Arlott, David Rayvern Allen, Arlott on cricket: his writings on the game
(computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
* 1993 , Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook
To discharge or pour a liquid.
To get rid of or dispose of.
(slang) To go to the bathroom.
To deliver forcefully.
(slang) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice
To draw the charge from.
(label) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
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*(Bible), (w) xix.14:
*:Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark.
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, chapter=2 # To replace a dish within a course.
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(label) To murder.
To dismiss a batsman.
(label) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
*:Die had she rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any should of falsenesse her reproue, / Or loosenesse, that she lightly did remoue .
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, title= To depart, leave.
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*:THenne the kynge dyd doo calle syre Gawayne / syre Borce / syr Lyonel and syre Bedewere / and commaunded them to goo strayte to syre Lucius / and saye ye to hym that hastely he remeue oute of my land / And yf he wil not / bydde hym make hym redy to bataylle and not distresse the poure peple
(label) To change one's residence; to move.
*(William Shakespeare)
*:Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.
*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.
To dismiss or discharge from office.
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The act of removing something.
* (rfdate) (Milton)
* (rfdate) (Goldsmith)
(archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
(British) (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")
* (rfdate) (Addison)
Distance in time or space; interval.
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(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
* (rfdate)
The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
In transitive terms the difference between unload and remove
is that unload is to draw the charge from while remove is to discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).In intransitive terms the difference between unload and remove
is that unload is to deposit one's load or cargo while remove is to change one's residence; to move.As a noun remove is
the act of removing something.unload
English
Verb
(en verb)- to unload''' a ship; to '''unload a camel
- to unload bales of hay from a truck
- Some stations have collection vehicles unload on the floor, using a front loader to push material into the hopper.
- ...who bowled with such fury that he needed beer to give him something to sweat out, and who unloaded his emotions in words as hard as his bowling.
- When you unload a DLL, the memory and other system resources it is using will become available for use by other applications.
- to unload unprofitable stocks
- to unload feces
- to unload a gun
Derived terms
* unloaderReferences
* English ergative verbsremove
English
Verb
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Synonyms
* unstayAntonyms
* (move something from one place to another) settle, place, addDerived terms
* removable * removal * removerNoun
(en noun)- This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.
- And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
- A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
- It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
- (Jonathan Swift)