Leftover vs Vestige - What's the difference?
leftover | vestige |
Remaining; left behind; extra; in reserve.
(chiefly, in the plural, usually, of food) Remaining after a meal is complete or eaten for a later meal or snack.
Something left behind; an excess or remainder.
The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign.
A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains.
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, title= (label) A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.
* 1904 Transactions of theannual session , Volume 40, Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, p160
* 1932 (John Arthur Thomson), Riddles of science, Ayer Publishing, p824
* 2007 R. Randal Bollingera, Andrew S. Barbasa, Errol L. Busha, Shu S. Lina, & William Parkera, "Biofilms in the large bowel suggest an apparent function of the human vermiform appendix," Journal of Theoretical Biology
As nouns the difference between leftover and vestige
is that leftover is something left behind; an excess or remainder while vestige is the mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign.As an adjective leftover
is remaining; left behind; extra; in reserve.leftover
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Alternative forms
* left over, left-overAdjective
(-)- Do you want some of the leftover supplies from the event?
- I have some leftover spaghetti in the fridge, so I don't plan to cook tonight.
- Not leftovers again.
Usage notes
* When used after a verb (as part of a predicate phrase), use two separate words: *: I can walk for miles and still have energy left over.Noun
(en noun)- It's a leftover from yesterday, but it's still perfectly good.
- The entire wheel of cheese is a leftover from the party.
vestige
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
- Any person seeing such a condition could not help being frightened at the conditions found, and it seems to me that that fact should lead us to think that the appendix is a vestige or becoming so.
- Now this paired organ of Jacobsen began in reptiles and is well developed in many mammals. But in man it is a vestige , often disappearing altogether; and the two openings are closed.
- This idea was confirmed by Scott, who performed a detailed comparative analysis of primate anatomy and demonstrated conclusively that the appendix is derived for some unidentified function and is not a vestige .
