Commanding and Remote

verb

• Be in command of.
  • usage: "The general commanded a huge army"
  • synonyms: command
• Make someone do something.
  • synonyms: command, require
• Demand as one's due.
  • usage: "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
  • synonyms: command
• Look down on.
  • usage: "The villa dominates the town"
  • synonyms: dominate, command, overlook, overtop
• Exercise authoritative control or power over.
  • usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
  • synonyms: control, command

adjective

• Used of a height or viewpoint.
  • usage: "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom"
  • synonyms: dominating, overlooking

• (a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.
• (a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
• (a.) Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Command.

noun

• A device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance.
  • usage: "he lost the remote for his TV"
  • synonyms: remote control

adjective

• Located far away spatially.
  • usage: "distant lands"; "remote stars"
  • synonyms: distant
• Very unlikely.
  • usage: "an outside chance"; "a remote possibility"; "a remote contingency"
  • synonyms: outside
• Separate or apart in time.
  • usage: "distant events"; "the remote past or future"
  • synonyms: distant, removed
• Inaccessible and sparsely populated;.
  • synonyms: outback
• Far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship .
  • usage: "a distant cousin"; "a remote relative"; "a distant likeness"; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"
  • synonyms: distant

• (superl.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
• (superl.) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
• (superl.) Separate; abstracted.
• (superl.) Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
• (superl.) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
• (superl.) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
• (superl.) Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
• (superl.) Hence, removed; not agreeing, according or being related; -- in various figurative uses.