Remoteness

Definition

remote /rÇ'mǝƱt/ adj ( -r, -st ) ၁။ (က) ~ (from sth) ေဝးလံ ေသာ။ အစြန္အဖ်ားက်ေသာ။ ေခါင္ေသာ။ a remote area/village/farmhouse ❍ in the remotest (ie most distant) parts of Asia ❍ live in a house remote from any town or village. (ခ) (အခ်ိန္အားျဖင့္) ကြာလွမ္းေသာ။ in the remote past/future. (ဂ) ေသြးေဝးေသာ။ a remote ancestor/cousin. (ဃ) ~ (from sth) တသီးတျခားျဖစ္ေသာ။ an abstract theory that seems rather remote from everyday life. ၂။ (of people or behaviour) ဟက္ဟက္ပက္ပက္ မရိွေသာ။ a remote expression ❍ He seems rather remote. ၃။ ေရးေရးမွ်သာရိွေသာ။ ခဲယဥ္းေသာ။ a remote possibility/chance ❍ I haven't the remotest idea who did it. ❍ The prospect of her recovery is increasingly remote. ❏ remote control n [U, C] အေဝးထိန္းကိရိယာ။ a remote control handset (eg for switching channels on a television set) ❍ click/press the remote control ❍ The car doors can be locked by remote control. remote-controlled adj : remote-controlled cameras. ❏ remotely adv (ျငင္းပယ္ျပပစၥည္းႏွင့္ မ်ားေသာအားျဖင့္ တြဲ၍) နည္းနည္းမွ်။ ေရးေရးမွ်။ not remotely amusing/interesting/possible. ❏ remoteness n [U] ကြာလွမ္းမႈ။ တသီးတျခားျဖစ္မႈ။ the remoteness of the mountains ❍ remoteness from everyday life.

Examples

1. My grandparents were from a remote village in China.
2. We felt very remote and lonely living out in the country.
3. She had never imagined being able to visit such remote countries.
4. The idea of a holiday seems so remote I can hardly even imagine it.
5. You have only the remotest chance of winning the lottery.
6. The possibility of kidnapping is remote
7. but be careful.
8. A remote keyless entry
9. Remote cameras
10. [remote from] : Managers have become increasingly remote from their junior employees.
11. All these theories seem very remote from our everyday experience in the classroom.