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

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).

Crosswords: Left Over

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.

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.

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 Ni�o" 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.

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

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)

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

Misspellings

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: leftover.

-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.

+1 letter: leftovers.

+3 letters: overinflate.

+4 letters: festivalgoer, overinflated, overinflates.

+5 letters: festivalgoers, overfertilize, proliferative.

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