Removes vs Removest - What's the difference?

removes | removest |

As verbs the difference between removes and removest

is that removes is (remove) while removest is (archaic) (remove).

As a noun removes

is .

removes

English

Noun

(head)

Verb

(head)

(remove)

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removest

English

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (remove)

remove

English

Verb

(remov)

(label) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.

*(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 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed , she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}

# 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= Karen McVeigh

, volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= US rules human genes can't be patented , passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}

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.

Synonyms

* unstay

Antonyms

* (move something from one place to another) settle, place, add

Derived terms

* removable * removal * remover

Noun

(en noun)

The act of removing something.

* (rfdate) (Milton)

This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.

* (rfdate) (Goldsmith)

And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

(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)

A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.

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)

It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.

The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

(Jonathan Swift)

References

* OED 2nd edition 1989 1000 English basic words ----