Noun

(en noun)

Something that is going on; a happening.

* 1961 , Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure

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.

Noun

(en-plural noun)

What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.

The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.

Historical or archaeological relics.

(senseid)The extant writings of a deceased person.

All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

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