Other vs Remaining - What's the difference?
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second.
Alien.
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Different.
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(obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
* Spenser
An other one, more often rendered as another .
The other one; the second of two.
* 1699 , ,
* , chapter=6
, title= Not the one or ones previously referred to.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
(obsolete) otherwise
To make into an other.
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To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
* 2007 , Christopher Emdin, City University of New York. Urban Education, Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms :
(ethnicity, or, race) To label as "other".
* 2008 , John F. Borland, University of Connecticut, The under-representation of Black females :
(label) Or.
*, Book VII:
*:And if that I had nat had my prevy thoughtis to returne to youre love agayne as I do, I had sene as grete mysteryes as ever saw my sonne Sir Galahad other' Percivale, ' other Sir Bors.
An act or occurrence by which someone or something remains
* {{quote-book, 1580, , An Answer Unto A Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation Devised by Stephen Gardiner, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=mFgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA298, page=298, edition=1844 Parker Society ed.
, passage=For where Gelasius saith, that "there remaineth the substance or nature of bread and wine," to declare thereby the remaining of two natures in Christ, you say, that "Gelasius' saying may be verified in the last, and not in the first," that is to say, that the nature of bread and wine remaineth.}}
* {{quote-book, 1864, date=August 8, chapter=Mr Seward to Mr Pike, No. 171, author=, title=Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Part 3, year_published=1865, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA322&id=QTEWAAAAYAAJ&output=text, page=322
, passage= It is important for us to know to what extent the remaining of that naval force is advantageous, and I hope therefore, that you will seek an opportunity informally to confer upon this question,
* {{quote-book, 1975, , The Contemporary Explosion of Theology, page=39
, passage=In this steadfast remaining with the Church that he so often criticizes, Küng shows himself to be a true son of Roman Catholicism. }}
(countable, rare) Remnant.
which remains, especially after something else has been removed
As adjectives the difference between other and remaining
is that other is see other (determiner) below while remaining is which remains, especially after something else has been removed.As nouns the difference between other and remaining
is that other is an other one, more often rendered as another while remaining is an act or occurrence by which someone or something remains.As verbs the difference between other and remaining
is that other is to make into an other while remaining is present participle of lang=en.As a determiner other
is not the one or ones previously referred to.As an adverb other
is apart from; in the phrase "other than".As a conjunction other
is or.other
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- I get paid every other week.
- A distaff in her other hand she had.
Synonyms
* (not the one previously referred to) * (contrary to) * different, disparate * dissimilar, distinctive * distinguishable, diverse * unalike, unlike * additional, another * else, farther * furtherAntonyms
* sameDerived terms
* otherish * other rank * other sideNoun
(en noun)Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other' suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the ' other polishes it.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}
Determiner
(en determiner)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Antonyms
* sameDerived terms
*Adverb
(-)- Other than that, I'm fine.
- It shall none other be. — Chaucer.
- If you think other . — Shakespeare.
Verb
(en verb)- In this scenario, the young lady who had spoken had been othered by her peers and her response to my question had been dismissed as invalid despite the fact that she was alright.
- [...] and Black males have not taken her seriously politically (gender); and the color of her skin has marginalized her (race and "othered " her when compared with White women, who have also worked to silence her political views.
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Probably (etyl) .Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)Statistics
*remaining
English
Verb
(head)- They will be remaining behind. (progressive)
- My remaining at the beach house kept it from being vandalized. (gerund)
- The remaining paint shall be properly disposed of. (participle used as adjective)
Noun
(en noun)citation
Usage notes
* Also used as gerund.Synonyms
* rest * balanceAdjective
(-)- May I have the only remaining cake?