Remains

Definition: Remains

Remains

Noun

1. Any object that is left unused or still extant; "I threw out the remains of my dinner".

2. The dead body of a human being.

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

Date "remains" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Biology & Biotechnology

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

Synonyms: Remains

Corpse

Organic remains, fossils.

Noun: corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay; mummy; carrion; food for worms, food for fishes; tenement of clay this mortal coil.

Organization

Noun: organized world, organized nature; living nature, animated nature; living beings; organic remains, fossils.

Record

Noun: trace, vestige, relic, remains; scar, cicatrix; footstep, footmark, footprint; pug; track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste.

Remainder

Noun: remainder, residue; remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic; leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts; residuum; dregs; (dirt); refuse; (useless); stubble, result, educt; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton., stump; alluvium.

Crosswords: Remains

Russian (corpse).

Your assertiveness tells me that you feel the same way about me. But ritual remains that we must do a series of platonic actions before we can have intercourse (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

They found the remains of a Rebel base, but they estimate that it has been deserted for some time (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

Oh great, considering I desecrated your Grandma's remains, found out you were engaged, and had your Father ask me to milk him (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke)

Calculate the velocity, v, in relation to the trajectory, t, in which g, gravity, of course remains a constant (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth (The Basketball Diaries; writing credit: Bryan Goluboff)

Without losing the love that remains (HUMAN TOUCH; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Warheart! With no remains of compassion or love (Warheart; performing artist: Children)

Every game ain't the same, coz the game still remains (Fantastic Voyage; performing artist: Coolio)

To the gypsy that remains faces freedom with a little fear (Gypsy; performing artist: Fleetwood Mac; writing credit: Stevie Nicks)

When I tell it, it remains the same (Puppy Love; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow)

Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular. (references; author: unknown)

Remains to Be Seen (1953)

What Remains (2002)

Human Remains (2000)

The Remains of the Day (1993)

Love & Human Remains (1993)

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

Books

• All That Remains (reference)

• Hollywood Remains to Be Seen: A Guide to the Movie Stars' Final Homes (reference)

• Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Chetham Society Publications- Remains (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Remains of the Day (Special Edition) (reference)

• Love and Human Remains (reference)

• The Remains of the Day (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Beneath the Remains [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• The Remains of Tom Lehrer [BOX SET] (reference)

• The Song Remains The Same: Soundtrack From The Led Zeppelin Film [LIVE] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Infected cell (right) shows hypertrophy while the uninfected adjacent endothelial cell (left) remains thin and flat. Transmission electron micrograph. Credit: CDC.

Amongst the Anopheles mosquitoes the venation of their wings remains constant, while the scale patterns undergo variation between Groups 1, 2, 3, and 4. Anopheles gambiae is the world's most important vector for malarial parasites. Credit: CDC.

51-L Challenger Crew Remains Transferred. Credit: NASA.

Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of an exploding star, ... Credit: NASA.

From ground-based telescopes, this cosmic object -- the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like ... Credit: NASA.

Remains of Coast Guard PBY (08055) V-189 This aircraft crashed on Mount Moffat, Adak, on July 18, 1943 Two C&GS personnel killed in this crash. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Lightweight aluminum observing tripod Astro party of C. V. Hodgson Note remains of old observing stand to left. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Perhaps the remains of a once noble ship or maybe only an old pier. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Remains of seventy-year old mutton Hanging on wall of Scott's Hut Point Shelter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A large ice berg (by Beaufort Sea standards) - remains of a pressure ridge. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. (Second Treatise of Government)

This, then, is a plain case for a mandamus, either to deliver the commission, or a copy of it from the record; and it only remains to be enquired, Whether it can issue from this court. (reference)

So long as the present Treaty remains in force, Germany undertakes to give every facility for any investigation which the Council of the League of Nations, acting if need be by a majority vote, may consider necessary. (reference)

But what we have to consider here to-day while time remains, is the permanent prevention of war and the establishment of conditions of freedom and democracy as rapidly as possible in all countries. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But take it away, and all appropriation ceases, and a very pretty gallant charade remains, fit for any collection

Next day, however, as we chatted on over the remains of luncheon, I ventured to put the momentous question

A broken baluster remains upright like a broken leg.

Under the blanket she hoarded the remains of the store bread

Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Urine remains in the bladder. (references)

Remains extremely rare in humans. (references)

The cause of RS remains a mystery. (references)

Business

He remains in Hong Kong. (references)

However, he remains in prison. (references)

This remains a difficult challenge. (references)

Children

South Africa

Violence against children, including domestic violence, remains widespread. (references)

Bhutan

Societal discrimination against persons with disabilities remains a problem. (references)

Saint Lucia

The Saint Lucia Crisis Center reported that the incidence of child abuse remains high. (references)

Civil Liberties

Algeria

This ban remains in force. (references)

Colombia

Media ownership remains highly concentrated. (references)

Thailand

Activity on the Internet remains unregulated. (references)

Discrimination

Swaziland

Legal and cultural discrimination against women remains a problem. (references)

Nepal

Discrimination against lower castes, women, and the disabled remains common, especially in rural areas. (references)

Economic History

Ecuador

Access remains a problem. (references)

Human Rights

Morocco

The case remains very visible. (references)

Costa Rica

Penitentiary overcrowding remains a problem. (references)

Guyana

Lengthy pretrial detention remains a problem. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

Competition for land and resources remains acute in Sumatra. (references)

India

The colonial act listing these tribes was repealed in 1951, but the stigma remains and many of these tribal people still are discriminated against actively. (references)

Bolivia

The indigenous majority generally remains at the low end of the socioeconomic scale, and faces severe disadvantages in health, life expectancy, education, income, literacy, and employment. (references)

Minorities

Turkey

Proselytizing remains socially unacceptable. (references)

Fiji

Control of the land remains a highly sensitive issue. (references)

Iraq

However, teaching of Syriac reportedly remains restricted. (references)

Political Economy

BRAZIL

The ban remains on Duram and White wheats. (references)

BANGLADESH

Industrial output remains narrowly focused. (references)

INDIA

Entry of foreign banks remains highly regulated. (references)

Political Rights

Yemen

The multiparty system remains weak. (references)

Nigeria

The political system remains in transition. (references)

Russia

Nonetheless the Duma remains an independent institution representing powerful interests and individuals. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

The future of the zones remains uncertain. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Overall, however, piracy remains a problem. (references)

Kazakhstan

Banking remains heavily concentrated in Almaty. (references)

Travel

West Bank

Note: U.S. Embassy remains open. (references)

Poland

Violent crime remains rare, but is growing. (references)

Georgia

The condition of the internal roads in the country remains poor. (references)

Women

Guyana

Divorce by consent remains illegal. (references)

Botswana

Domestic violence against women remains a serious problem. (references)

China

The problem remains unaddressed in the legal system and often in society. (references)

Worker Rights

Bangladesh

However, government capacity to address this issue remains limited. (references)

Burma

Forced or compulsory labor remains a widespread and serious problem. (references)

Kuwait

Adequate and affordable health care remains a problem for many foreign workers. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "remains": archeological remains ♦ holy remains ♦ human remains ♦ literary remains ♦ mortal remains ♦ nothing remains but to accept ♦ nothing remains to be said ♦ organic remains ♦ remains of the meal ♦ remains to be seen ♦ the fact remains that ♦ the result remains doubtful ♦ wood remains. Additional references.

Ending with "remains": wood-remains.

Albanian

tepricë (margin, odd-come-short, over, overage, overbalance, overflow, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overstock, redundance, redundancy, remain, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, surplus, surplusage), të mbetura (leftover, remain, remainder), mbeturina (chaff, char, cheese-parings, garbage, kitchen stuff, leavings, litter, odds and ends, pickings, recrement, refuse, relics, Reliquiae, rubbish, shorts, spoilage, stamping, survival, tailings, waste, wrack), eshtra (remain). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فضلات (leftover, offal, pickings, remainder, residue), ‏خرائب (remain, remnant, shambles), ‏بقايا (left over, oddments, odds and ends, remain, remnant, residue, rubble, ruin, scrap, scrapings, snippet, tag, vestige). (various references)

Bulgarian 

следи, развалини (debris), останки (bones, leavings, leftovers, refuse, remainder, scrapings, scraps, waste). (various references)

Chinese 

遺體 , 遗骸的, 殘骸 (wreckage). (various references)

Czech

zbytky (detritus, leavings, leftovers, oddments, odds and ends, offal, rummage). (various references)

Danish

underkorn er den del,som passerer den nederste graensesigte;overkorn er den del,der ved sigtningen tilbageholdes paa den oeverste graensesigte (undersize is the percentage which falls through the lower limit screen/sieve/;oversize is the percentage which during screening/sieving/ remains on the upper limit screen/sieve), Stirling-motoren eller varmluftmotoren drives af en arbejdsgas,helium,der opvarmes af en udvendig braender og afkoeles igen af en koeler ventileret med den omgivende luft (in the Stirling engine the working liquid is helium, is heated by an external burner, then re-cooled by means of a cooler ventilated by the ambient air, which remains in its gaseous state), plantefossiler (fossil plants, plant fossils, vegetable remains), naalestrukturen forbliver uforandret,fordi den ferritiske grundmasse ikke rekrystalliserer (because there is no recrystallisation of the ferritic matrix, the acicular structure remains unchanged), Laue-pletterne er udtvaerede;i den polygoniserede tilstand bliver Debye-Scherrer-linierne en smule smallere,fordi underkorngraenserne bliver fine,men de udtvaerede Laue-pletter deler sig op (since the sub-grain size remains fine but the asterism spots break up, the Laue-spots show a marked asterism. In the polygonized condition the Debye-Scherrer lines become only slightly finer), fossile planterester (fossil plants, plant fossils, vegetable remains), efter at det oevre flydepunkt er passeret, ligger traekspaendingen paa den nedre flydespaending gennem hele flydeomraadet (after the upper yield point has been exceeded, the yield stress remains at the level of the lower yield point during the entire Process of yielding). (various references)

Dutch

voorbij de bovenste vloeigrens blijft de spanning gedurende het gehele vloeiproces op het niveau van de onderste vloeigrens (after the upper yield point has been exceeded, the yield stress remains at the level of the lower yield point during the entire Process of yielding), onder retentiehoeveelheidwordt verstaan de hoeveelheid stof, die achter blijft in de luchtwegen die niet met trilhaarepiteel zijn bedekt, d.w.z. de stof, die reeds in het interstitiële longweefsel werd afgezet (as is the dust which was already deposited in the interstitial tissue of the lung, that amount of dust which remains in the respiratory passages not lined with ciliated epithelium is termed the retained amount), marktsegment waar de communautaire markt zeer versnipperd is (sector where the common market remains fragmented), lijkenpas (mortal remains certificate, pass for the transshipment of a dead body), fossiele plantenresten (fossil plants, plant fossils, vegetable remains), fossiele planten (fossil plants, plant fossils, vegetable remains), door het stampen van het schip heeft het boorgereedschap de neiging zich van de bodem los te maken;om het gewicht op de beitel constant te houden,wordt in het boorgereedschap een boorschaar aangebracht die tot doel heeft deze bewegingen op te vangen (under the influence of vessel heave the drill string tends to lose contact with the bottom of the hole;to ensure that the weight on the bit remains constant), de Stirlingmotor - heteluchtmotor of heetgasmotor - wordt gedreven door een werkgas, helium, dat in gasvormige toestand blijft. Het werkgas wordt door een uitwendige verhitter verwarmd en vervolgens met een door de buitenlucht geventileerde koeler afgekoe (in the Stirling engine the working liquid is helium, is heated by an external burner, then re-cooled by means of a cooler ventilated by the ambient air, which remains in its gaseous state), de naaldstructuur blijft behouden omdat de ferrietmatrix niet gerekristalliseerd is (because there is no recrystallisation of the ferritic matrix, the acicular structure remains unchanged), de Laue-velden zijn uitgesproken stervormig;in gepolygoniseerde toestand worden de Debye-Scherrer-lijnen iets fijner,terwijl de subkristallen klein blijven.Echter,de Laue-velden delen zich (since the sub-grain size remains fine but the asterism spots break up, the Laue-spots show a marked asterism. In the polygonized condition the Debye-Scherrer lines become only slightly finer), de fijnste zeefdoorgang is de fractie die de fijnste normzeef nog passeert;de grofste zeefrest is de fractie die op de grofste normzeef blijft liggen (undersize is the percentage which falls through the lower limit screen/sieve/;oversize is the percentage which during screening/sieving/ remains on the upper limit screen/sieve). (various references)

Finnish

tomu (ashes, dust), tähteet (left-overs). (various references)

French

restes (refuse parts, rejects). (various references)

German

Reste (carryovers, leavings, leftovers, oddments, odds and ends, pickings, remainders, remnants, residuals, residues, ruins, scrapings, scraps, splits), verbleibt, bleibt (abides, persists, residents, resides, stays). (various references)

Greek 

λείψανα (relics), απομεινάρια (leavings, leftover, odds and ends, the remnants). (various references)

Guarani

opyta (it remains). (various references)

Hebrew 

שירים (ends, hash, leftovers, offal, remainder, residue), שרידים. (various references)

Hungarian

maradványok (Reliquiae), maradvány (balance, hold over, pickings, relic, remain, remainder, reminiscence, remnant, residue, residuum, surplus, survival, trace, vestige). (various references)

Indonesian

jenazah (mortal remains). (various references)

Italian

rimane (stays), resti mortali, resti (ashes, leavings), opere postumi, legno sub fossile (remnants, subfossil wood, wood remains, wood remnants), avanzo (end, junk, oddment, remainder, remnant, scrap), avanzi (leaving, leftovers, offal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

跡 (mark, ruins, scar, sign, trace, tracks). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しがい (body, city, city tax, corpse, outside the city area, suburbs, the streets, town, ultraviolet, urban areas, UV), なきがら (corpse), なごり (memory, traces, vestiges), ざんさい (dregs, vestiges), ざんし (dregs, tragic death, vestiges, violent death), いたい (clothes and obi, corpse, different body, full court dress, painful), いがい (corpse, excepting, surprising, unexpected, with the exception of), いこう (authority, clothes rack, great deed, great effect, hereafter, idea, inclination, influence, intention, lingering odor of giver, on and after, perfume on the clothing, posthumous manuscripts, power, switching over to, thereafter, to relax, to repose, to rest, transposition, works following the deceased), いこつ (ashes of deceased), あまりもの (leavings, remnant, surplus), あまり (balance, excess, fullness, not much, not very, other, remainder, remnant, residue, rest, scraps, surplus, too much), あんまり (balance, excess, fullness, not much, not very, other, remainder, remnant, residue, rest, scraps, surplus, too much), あと (after, behind, later, mark, rear, remainder, ruins, scar, sign, successor, trace, tracks). (various references)

Korean 

유물. (various references)

Manx

fooillagh (deposit, garbage, left over, oddments, remainder, remnant, scraps, surplus, wastage), brooillagh (crumbs, fragments of food, leavings). (various references)

Pig Latin

emainsray.(various references)

Portuguese

restos mortais (relic), restos (debris, garbage, leavings, lees, offscourings, pickings, refuse, rejectamenta, reliquiae, remnant, residue, residuum, scraps, survival, waste), relíquias (relic), madeira sub-fossilizada (remnants, subfossil wood, wood remains, wood remnants). (various references)

Romanian

resturi (draff, garbage, Grout, jetsam, leavings, litter, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, offal, parings, picking, refuse, remain, remnants, rubbish, scrap, scraps, tailings, wreck), rãmãşiţe (debris, leavings, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, riff raff, tailings). (various references)

Russian 

реликвии (reliquiae), остатки (leavings, oddments, odds and ends, pickings, refuse, rinse, tailings, waifs and strays), остаток (leftover, odd-come-short, remain, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, rest, scraps, surplus, vestige), оставаться остаток, посмертные произведения. (various references)

Scottish

smeallach , smealach, fuighleach (leavings, refuse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ostaci (dreg, leavings, leftovers, odd-come-shorts, oddments, remainders). (various references)

Spanish

restos (detritus, left overs, legacy, ruins, wreckage). (various references)

Swedish

rester (left overs, left-overs, pickings), förblir. (various references)

Thai

ซากศพ (cadaver). (various references)

Turkish

yemek artıkları (kitchenmidden, left overs), kalmýş, kalanlar (leavings, leftovers), kalıtlar, kalıntılar (antiquity, relics, ruins), izler (footprints, marks, stigmata), ceset kalıntısı, artıklar (leavings, leftovers, oddments), ölünün kemikleri. (various references)

Ukrainian

руїни (debris, demolition, ruins), останки (ashes, bone), залишок (carry over, end, left over, relic, remainder, remnant, residual, stump, vestige, vestigium), пережитки. (various references)

Welsh

gweddill (balance, remainder, remnant, rest), gwarged. (various references)

fragmen, fragmen, fragminis, somes. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "remains": cremains. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Remains" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aramaeans, aramians, demains, Dremanis, Ramalina, Ramansk, ramins, reamings, redmanes, reimagine, remaine, remaines, remanis, remaniss, remans, remayne, remenis, remians, reminis, remmelink, renins, Riemans, Romaines, romanis, Romasius, Rosmarinus, Rymans, Tremaine. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: marines, seminar.

-1 letter: aimers, airmen, amines, animes, arisen, armies, arsine, inarms, inseam, marine, mesian, miners, namers, ramens, ramies, remain, remans, semina.

-2 letters: aimer, airns, amens, amies, amine, amins, amirs, anime, anise, arise, earns, emirs, inarm, mains, mairs, manes, manse, mares, marse, maser, means, mensa, miens, minae, minas, miner, mines, mires, miser, namer, names, nares, naris.

+1 letter: aneurism, carmines, cremains, harmines, mariners, marlines, minarets, minerals, mislearn, moraines, raiments, ramekins, reinsman, romaines, romanise, seminars, seminary, smearing.

+2 letters: almonries, amberinas, aneurisms, animaters, antimeres, antiserum, emigrants, examiners, fisherman, geraniums, harmonies, harmonise, hymnaries, imaginers, inflamers, maligners, malingers, manicures, mannerism, mannerist, marinades, marinates, martinets, masonries, mastering, measuring, meridians, midranges, migraines, miscreant, mishanter, mislearns, mislearnt, muraenids, muscarine, normalise, nursemaid, pearmains, ramequins, romanised, romanises, romanizes, ruminates, screaming, semilunar, spearmint, streaming, submarine, terminals, tramlines, tribesman, tyramines, urinemias, zemindars.