remote control
Word forms: remote controls
1. uncountable noun
Remote control is a system of controlling a machine or a vehicle from a distance by using radio or electronic signals.
The bomb was detonated by remote control.
2. countable noun B1
The remote control for a piece of electrical equipment such as a television is the device that you use to control the equipment from a distance, by pressing the buttons on it.
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Collocations:
remote-control device
The remote-control device was to be packed with explosives, driven under security gates and blown up beneath a parked vehicle.
The Sun
You have to get a man round and then it still won't work because you have absolutely no idea what to press on the remote-control device.
Times, Sunday Times
The remote-control device, if electrically operated, uses batteries with a low, safe, voltage.
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Building on inherited money, he invested in a string of esoteric tech companies (wireless remote-control devices, sonar systems).
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The tragedy was discovered when officers rushed to the sites to fight the fires which had been ignited by remote-control devices.
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Translations:
Chinese: 遥控器
Japanese: リモコン
- pornographer
- pornographic
- pornography
- porosity
- porous
- porous border
- porous defence
- porous rock
- porpoise
- porridge
- port
- portability
- portable
- portable computer
- portable defibrillator
- portable device
- portable gadget
- portable generator
- portable heater
- portable keyboard
- portable phone
- portable player
- portable radio
- portable speaker
- portable stove