Remnant vs Leavings - What's the difference?
remnant | leavings | Related terms |
The small portion remaining of a larger thing or group.
The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.
An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
(archaic) Remaining; still left.
* Fuller
* Prior
A worthless and incidental residuum, as scraps from a meal or shavings or sawdust from wood.
:The leavings were thrown to the dogs.
A worthless surfeit of material, as leftovers from a meal or scrap lumber.
:The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful.
Remnant is a related term of leavings.
As nouns the difference between remnant and leavings
is that remnant is the small portion remaining of a larger thing or group while leavings is a worthless and incidental residuum, as scraps from a meal or shavings or sawdust from wood.As an adjective remnant
is (archaic) remaining; still left.remnant
English
Alternative forms
* remnaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Usually not enough to make an entire project by itself, remnants of several fabrics can be used to make quilts.
Synonyms
* (Small remaining portion) relic, residue, remainder * (Unsold end of piece goods) remains * the'' rest ''ofDerived terms
* nova remnant * supernova remnantAdjective
(-)- Because of the remnant dregs of his disease.
- And quiet dedicate her remnant life / To the just duties of an humble wife.