What's the difference between doff and remove?

Doff


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.
  • (v. t.) To strip; to divest; to undress.
  • (v. i.) To put off dress; to take off the hat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) British consumers, whose bills will be halved, will doff their caps to Tory ministers who made possible this revolution of cheap energy.
  • (2) Transposing the Brothers Grimm to 1920s Spain, he doffs his montera not only to European silent cinema of the period, but to bullfighting and flamenco, with an atmospheric Gothic melodrama that has lashings of humour – mostly provided by Maribel Verdú as the social-climbing evil stepmother with a penchant for S&M – bags of invention, and an expressive, flamenco-inflected score by Alfonso de Vilallonga.
  • (3) In movie terms, this is the equivalent of the nerdy librarian who doffs her glasses and shakes out her hair, at which someone must yell, "Why, Miss Jones, you are magnificent!"
  • (4) Macartney offered to doff his hat, go down on one knee and even kiss the emperor's hand, but declined to kowtow unless a Chinese official agreed to kneel before a portrait of George III.
  • (5) The available transducers are cosmetically acceptable and are easy to don and doff.
  • (6) The music nods at Gregorian chant, doffs its cap to Shostakovich , gives a thumbs up to industrial metal, and is uniquely Scott Walker.
  • (7) Severe restriction of shoulder and trunk mobility made it impossible for these patients to don and doff their prostheses using the traditional figure-of-eight harness.
  • (8) If so, we must doff our hats to the Britannia of idiocy, and observe that she should really be on coins – the unapologetic face of some apocalypse-baiting modern currency.
  • (9) Marc Ostwald of Monument Securities 1) One has to always doff one's hat to Draghi for his ability to "blag a blagger", in rather stark (sic) contrast to his predecessors, and the conservative Bundesbank type grouping on the council.
  • (10) He clearly has a charisma; he laughs a lot and smiles a lot and he has a thing on top of his cap so he can easily doff it."
  • (11) Having castigated NHS England, we should doff our caps to its new boss, Simon Stevens, for a masterful report that, with a fair wind and a big slice of good fortune, could secure a long-term future for the health service.
  • (12) While everyone else is falling over to congratulate Jenny Jones, we doff our caps to Antti Koskinen, coach of the Finnish mens snowboard team.
  • (13) Makeshift centre-forward Gerard Pique shows the Big Game Bottler Other Big Game Bottlers doff their hats to how it's done by picking up a defence-splitting through-ball from Xavi, drawing Julio Cesar towards him, turning on a sixpence and slotting the ball into an empty goal from 12 yards.
  • (14) But those fears have escalated since a summer row between chief executive Mark Carne and an unsuspecting Patrick McLoughlin, transport secretary, over an additional £1.5bn needed for electrification projects, which has resulted, one source claims, in "armies of civil servants crawling over the budget" even before the track operator officially doffs its cap to McLoughlin.
  • (15) He's broken more records than an angry DJ and has been a superstar for nearly half his life, and this touching tribute focuses on the respect he's been accorded by colleagues, opponents and fans who doff their caps to him when he walks out to bat.

Remove


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
  • (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.
  • (n.) The act of removing; a removal.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The state of being removed.
  • (n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Samples are hydrolyzed with Ba (OH)2, and the hydrolysate is passed through a Dowex-50 column to remove the salts and soluble carbohydrates.
  • (2) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
  • (3) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
  • (4) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
  • (5) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
  • (6) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
  • (7) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (8) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
  • (9) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
  • (10) No effect of BSO pretreatments on the incomplete removal of crosslinks over 36 hr of observation was seen.
  • (11) Plasma for beta-endorphin assay was preincubated with sepharose-bound anti-beta-lipotropin to remove beta-lipotropin that cross-reacted with the beta-endorphin RIA.
  • (12) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
  • (13) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
  • (14) Selective removal of endothelium had no effect on BK-induced contraction or the action of the antagonists.
  • (15) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
  • (16) Our recurrences are due to local infections, removing the metal strut too early, i.e.
  • (17) We conclude that removal of dimers and repair of gaps were similar in all cases.
  • (18) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (19) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
  • (20) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.