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Left Over

Definition: Left Over

Left Over

Adjective

1. Not used up; "leftover meatloaf"; "she had a little money left over so she went to a movie"; "some odd dollars left"; "saved the remaining sandwiches for supper"; "unexpended provisions".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Left Over

Synonyms: left over(p) (adj), left(p) (adj), leftover (adj), odd (adj), remaining (adj), unexpended (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Left Over

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Remainder

Adjective:remaining, left; left behind left over; residual, residuary; over, odd; unconsumed, sedimentary; surviving; net; exceeding, over and above; outlying, outstanding; cast off; superfluous; (redundant).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Left Over

English words defined with "left over": baldric, baldrickCompluviumdamplyeffects, endGathering coalhardleft, Left-hand rope, leftovermoistlynight-lineodd, oddment, Over the left shoulderpersonal effectsremainder, remaining, remnant, revolve, rollscrapThumb mark, turn overunexpended. (references)
Specialty definitions using "left over": ANKLE-PATCH MOLDERback splinting, baum pot, BUNKER C FUEL OILCapua, CAT HARPING FASHIONDisplaced workers, doubling-machine operatorFallow cropland, First Fit, FLUE GASGrahame's DykeHook, Hooksinterlocking wedge-type cappingJosephine knotLAMINATING-MACHINE TENDERmail user agent, Mawco cutter loader, MOS TechnologiesOver the LeftPANTOGRAPHER, pecker tracks , PsycarpaxReal Programmers Don't Use Pascalscroll bar, SEWER AND INSPECTOR, Seymour Cray, space-cadet keyboardUllin, used packaging, uuencodeVentriculography, First-PassWHEELBAND IN THE NICKZiklag. (references)

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Modern Usage: Left Over

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You cry when you scrape your knee, you cry when we're out of chocolate milk, you cry when you're doing long division and you have a remainder left over. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I figure it'll fetch us enough to get a decent used auto-voiture, and a little left over besides. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

Now, the problem is, how to divide five Afghans from three mules and have two Englishmen left over. (The Man Who Would Be King; writing credit: Gladys Hill; John Huston)

For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. (Captain Corelli's Mandolin; writing credit: Shawn Slovo)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Left Over

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A wood structure left over at the Richinbar Mine site.Credit: Chris Tincher.

Mrs. L. Smith still has some canned goods left over from the winter. Carroll County, Georgia (see general caption).Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Left Over

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Like chordomas, they develop from cells left over from early fetal development. (references)

Their name reflects the belief, held by many scientists, that these tumors spring from primitive cells left over from early development of the nervous system. (references)

Business

The funds left over after core capacities are maintained might not leave enough for investment in new and advanced systems which are being employed by NATO allies. (references)

Economic History

Guinea

The demolition left over 100,000 people homeless. (references)

Peru

Nagging economic problems left over from the military government persisted, worsened by an occurrence of the "El Nio" weather phenomenon in 1982-83, which caused widespread flooding in some parts of the country, severe droughts in others, and decimated the schools of ocean fish that are one of the country's major resources. (references)

Human Rights

Rwanda

Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports of deaths from explosions of landmines or unexploded ordnance left over from the 1990 to 1994 conflict between the former government and the RPA. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

An ongoing problem was the availability of weapons left over from the war, including firearms and explosives, which were used in incidents of harassment during the year. (references)

Political Economy

Finland

It has also been paying off the high public debt left over from the economic crisis of the early 1990s, at the cost of some political capital. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: Left Over

Expressions using "left over": be left over have left over. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Left Over

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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6

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6

left over salmon

5

beef left over recipe roast

5

left over recipe turkey

4

ham left over recipe

4

beef left over recipe

3

left over pork recipe

3

left over recipe

3

left over recipe steak

2

left over turkey

2

chicken left over

2

ham left over

2

left over steak

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Left Over

Language Translations for "left over"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

teproj (be left over, catch up, exaggerate, overact, overdo, overstate, pile it on, remain). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مهمل (abandoned, antiquated, careless, derelict, deserted, discarded, disregarded, disregardful, disused, forgetful, forgotten, forsaken, heedless, ignored, in disuse, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, left out, neglected, neglectful, negligent, no longer of use, obsolete, omitted, out of use, outdated, reckless, refuse, regardless, remiss, slack, sloven, unpointed, waste), ‏بقايا (oddments, odds and ends, remain, remains, remnant, residue, rubble, ruin, scrap, scrapings, snippet, tag, vestige). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

遺留 (hand down, legacy). (various references)

   

Danish

  

knaplukning mod hoejre (left over right buttoned). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

resterend (abiding, left, remaining), over (abiding, about, above, across, after, away, behind, beyond, concerning, in, left, more than, on, on the other side of, over, past, remaining, upon), blijvend, blývend (abiding, continuous, lasting, left, remaining). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

restanta (abiding, left, remaining). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ylijäänyt (remaining, residual). (various references)

   

French

  

texte non utilisé, reste (let it stand), composition en excès. (various references)

   

German

  

übrig (additional, extra, left, odd, over, remaining, rest of, spare). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

που ξέμεινε. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מושאר (left, remaining, remnant, residual), עו"ף (balance, excess, plus, redundance, redundancy, superfluous, surfeit, surplus). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

meghagyott, maradék (end, frazzle, left overs, oddments, pickings, remainder, remains, remnant, residua, residue, residuum, rest, rump, stub, tailings, the rest), fölösleges (gratuitous, needless, otiose, redundant, spare, unavailable, unavailing, unnecessary), csökevény (atavism, rudiment, stump, survival, throw-back, vestige). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rimanenza (balance, carryover, magnetic remanence, remainder, remanence, residual magnetization, rest, unexpended balance, unsold, whereabout), coccodrillo (alligator clip, crocodile, overset). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

残った分 (amount left over), 余る (to be in excess, to be left over, to be too many, to remain), 中落ち (left over flesh on the spine of a fish). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

なかおち (left over flesh on the spine of a fish), の"ったぶ" (amount left over), あまる (to be in excess, to be left over, to be too many, to remain). (various references)

   

Manx

  

fooillagh (deposit, garbage, oddments, remainder, remains, remnant, scraps, surplus, wastage). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eftlay overay

   

Portuguese

  

abotoamento que se efectua da parte direita sobre a parte esquerda (left over right buttoned). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

preostao, ono što je preostalo, neupotrebljen (undisposed, unutilized). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lo dejado, superviviente (surviving dependant, survivor), sobrante (balance, else, escapage, explanatory, nikal, odd, over, spare, spoil, surplus, wastage, waste), resto (balance, carryover, debt, diversion, ecstasy, end, interval, remainder, rest, return), restante (remaining, residuary), izquierdista (left, leftist, leftwinger, left-winger). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kvarvarande (extant, remaining, surviving), överbliven (residual). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

artik (abiding, left, remainder, remaining, rest). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

незакінчений (open, unclosed, unfinished), залишок (carry over, end, relic, remainder, remains, remnant, residual, stump, vestige, vestigium), залишений (abandoned), пережиток (hangover, holdover, relic, survival). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Left Over

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

residua, residuam, residuas, residui, residuique, residuis, residuo, residuos, residuum, residuus, susicivus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Left Over

Misspellings

"Left Over" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: left overs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Left Over

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: leftover.

Words within the letters "e-e-f-l-o-r-t-v"

-1 letter: overlet.

-2 letters: floret, lefter, lofter, refelt, reflet, revolt, revote, telfer, vetoer.

-3 letters: elver, evert, fetor, fever, fleer, fleet, forte, lever, lover, ofter, overt, refel, relet, revel, revet, trove, volte, voter.

-4 letters: ever, feel, feet, felt, fere, fete, flee, floe, fore, fort, free, fret, froe, leer, leet, left, levo, loft, lore, love, orle, over, reef.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-l-o-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: leftovers.

 

+3 letters: overinflate.

 

+4 letters: festivalgoer, overinflated, overinflates.

 

+5 letters: festivalgoers, overfertilize, proliferative.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Left Over


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 66 74      4F 76 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01100110 01110100 00100000 01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#102 &#116 &#32 &#79 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0066 0074      004F 0076 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46717286249887184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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