Ongoing vs Remain - What's the difference?
ongoing | remain |
Something that is going on; a happening.
* 1961 , Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure
State of remaining; stay.
That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
(plural only) remains : That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
The posthumous works or productions, especially literary works of one who is dead.
To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
* Bible, (w) vi. 12
* (John Locke)
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
* Bible, (Genesis) xxxviii. 11
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
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(copulative) To continue in a state of being.
As nouns the difference between ongoing and remain
is that ongoing is something that is going on; a happening while remain is state of remaining; stay.As an adjective ongoing
is continuing, permanent.As a verb remain is
to stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.ongoing
English
Noun
(en noun)- We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.
Anagrams
*remain
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Gather up the fragments that remain .
- Thatremains to be proved.
- Remain a widow at thy father's house.
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