Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Remove \Re*move"\, n.
   1. The act of removing; a removal.

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

            And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
                                                  --Goldsmith.

   2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic
      belongings, from one location or dwelling house to
      another; -- in the United States usually called a move.

            It is an English proverb that three removes are as
            bad as a fire.                        --J. H.
                                                  Newman.

   3. The state of being removed. --Locke.

   4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to
      make room for something else.

   5. The distance or space through which anything is removed;
      interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any
      scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English
      public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.

            A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
                                                  --Addison.

   6. (Far.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. --Swift.

Remove \Re*move"\ (r?-m??v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Removed}
   (-m??vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Removing}.] [OF. removoir,
   remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to
   move. See {Move}.]
   1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to
      change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

            Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.
                                                  --Deut. xix.
                                                  14.

            When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving
            us, I generally ordered the table to be removed.
                                                  --Goldsmith.

   2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to
      be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an
      end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. ``King Richard
      thus removed.'' --Shak.

   3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President
      removed many postmasters.

   Note: See the Note under {Remove}, v. i.

Remove \Re*move"\ (r?-m??v"), v. i.
   To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place;
   to move or go from one residence, position, or place to
   another.

         Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I can not taint
         with fear.                               --Shak.

   Note: The verb remove, in some of its application, is
         synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not
         apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a
         change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his
         head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it,
         but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always
         denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply
         it to a regular, continued course or motion. We never
         say the wind or water, or a ship, removes at a certain
         rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from
         one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic
         term, including the sense of remove, which is more
         generally applied to a change from one station or
         permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.

Source : WordNet®

remove
     v 1: remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking
          off, etc. or remove something abstract; "remove a
          threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes
          from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This
          machine withdraws heat from the environment" [syn: {take},
           {take away}, {withdraw}]
     2: remove from a position or an office
     3: dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got
        rid of all the dead wood" [syn: {get rid of}]
     4: cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the
        classroom" [syn: {take out}, {move out}]
     5: shift the position or location of, as for business, legal,
        educational, or military purposes; "He removed his
        children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the
        forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another
        court" [syn: {transfer}]
     6: go away or leave; "He absented himself" [syn: {absent}]
     7: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss
        ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: {murder}, {slay}, {hit},
         {dispatch}, {bump off}, {polish off}]
     8: get rid of something abstract; "The death of her mother
        removed the last obstacle to their marriage"; "God takes
        away your sins" [syn: {take away}]

remove
     n : degree of figurative distance or separation; "just one
         remove from madness" or "it imitates at many removes a
         Shakespearean tragedy";