Carrion vs Residue - What's the difference?
carrion | residue | Related terms |
Dead flesh; carcasses.
* Spenser
* 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119
(obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
* Shakespeare
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.
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)- Vultures feed on carrion .
- They did eat the dead carrions .
- Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.
- Old feeble carrions .