Remove vs Weed - What's the difference?
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(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.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 # To replace a dish within a course.
#*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond
(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 .
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=
, volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To depart, leave.
*:
*: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.
:
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.
* {{quote-book, year=2007, author=James D. McCallister, title=King's Highway, page=162, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=DnRD6B3PPAoC&pg=PA162
, passage=In his unfortunate absence at this far remove of 2007, Zevon's musicianship and irascible wit are as missed as ever.}}
(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
* (rfdate)
The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
A plant.
# (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
#*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= # (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.
# Short for duckweed.
# Underbrush; low shrubs.
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#* (1809-1892)
A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
# Marijuana.
# Tobacco.
# A cigar.
A horse unfit to breed from.
A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
* 1599 ,
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel
* Milton
(wee)
Remove is a related term of weed.
As nouns the difference between remove and weed
is that remove is the act of removing something while weed is pasture or weed can be willow.As a verb remove
is (label) to move something from one place to another, especially to take away.remove
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)
References
* OED 2nd edition 1989 1000 English basic words ----weed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds . Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
- one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
- A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweedSee also
* grow like a weed * weedsEtymology 2
From (etyl) .See also
* weed outEtymology 3
From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.Noun
(en noun)- DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;
- And then to Leonato's we will go.
- CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,
- Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
- These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.
- He wore a weed on his hat.
- In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.