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Carrion vs Residue - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between carrion and residue

is that carrion is dead flesh; carcasses while residue is whatever remains after something else has been removed.

carrion

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Dead flesh; carcasses.
  • Vultures feed on carrion .
  • * Spenser
  • They did eat the dead carrions .
  • * 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119
  • Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.
  • (obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Old feeble carrions .

    residue

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
  • (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
  • (legal) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
  • (mathematics) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
  • Derived terms

    * nonresidue * quadratic residue * residual * residuary

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