Remain vs Bone - What's the difference?
remain | bone |
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
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
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, title= To await; to be left to.
(copulative) To continue in a state of being.
(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
* {{quote-book, year= a1420
, year_published= 1894
, author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056
, by= (Lanfranc of Milan)
, title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."
, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63
, original=
, chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone
, section=
, isbn= 1163911380
, edition=
, publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co
, location= London
, editor= Robert von Fleischhacker
, volume=
, page= 63
, passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}
(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
(figurative) The framework of anything.
An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
(US, informal) A dollar.
(slang) An erect penis; a boner.
(slang) Dominoes or dice.
(slang) .
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
* 1949 , (Kenneth Lewis Roberts), I Wanted to Write , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=upsEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KyP_TrXtI6PsmAWp8MzvCw&redir_esc=y page 44],
* 1977 , Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rqQRAQAAMAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wRb_Tuv2O-XMmAXioqiIAg&redir_esc=y page 73],
* 2009 , Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QmevzbQ0AsIC&pg=PA379&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0w7_Toz1FYyUmQX25YSjAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 379],
* 2011 , Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hDe3j9hIgw0C&pg=PT38&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1_X-Tv-rDO_zmAXHqsG1Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 38],
To fertilize with bone.
* 1859 July 9, (The Economist) , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3tcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HBr_Tq7KMaXymAXC4dCYAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 758],
To put whalebone into.
(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
(vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
(Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
* 1962 , Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe , Collier Books, page 48.
To study.
* 1896 , Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums
To polish boots to a shiny finish.
* F. van Zyl, [http://web.archive.org/20040622112824/uk.geocities.com/sadf_history1/ferdivz.html SADF National Service (1979-1980) ]
(slang) To apprehend, steal.
* 1839 , (Charles Dickens), (Nicholas Nickleby)'', in ''Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art , Volume XXXVII, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fOQXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA127&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2B3_TtvrC4f_mAXim5XJAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 127],
* 1915 , William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay ,
* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , 2006, Canongate, p.802,
(carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
* W. M. Buchanan
As nouns the difference between remain and bone
is that remain is state of remaining; stay while bone is a composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.As verbs the difference between remain and bone
is that 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 while bone is to prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.As an adjective bone is
of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.As a proper noun Bône is
a city in eastern Algeria, now known as Annaba.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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Synonyms
* (l) * (l) * (l)Derived terms
* remain to be seenStatistics
*Anagrams
*bone
English
(wikipedia bone)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (dialectal)Noun
Synonyms
* (rigid parts of a corset) rib, stayAdjective
(-)Verb
(bon)- One of the fish stalls specialized in boning' shad, and he who has never eaten a ' boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.
- The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned', stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, ' boned and rolled, but not stuffed.
- Then it is boned ; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.
- Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.
- He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”
- to bone stays
- (Ash)
- boning rod
- So, did you bone her?
- "You don't know!", Bony echoed. "You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can't tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater".
- bone up
- "I know it. You do not study." "What's the use of boning all the time! I wasn't cut out for it."
- "...the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits"
Synonyms
* (remove the bone from) debone * bury the bone, bonk (British), do, fuck, screw, shag (British)Derived terms
* auditory bone * bare bones * bone ash * bone-cruncher * bone-crunching * bone marrow * bone meal * bone of contention * bone spavin * bone structure * bone turquoise * bone up * boned * bone-dry * bonefish * bonehead * boneless * boner * boney * bonesetter * boneshaker * boneyard * bonfire * boning rod * bony * breastbone * breed in the bone * cannon bone * capitate bone * close to the bone * coffin bone * collarbone * condyle * crazy bone * cuboid bone * cuneiform bone * dembones * debone * dog bone * ethmoid bone * feel in one's bones * fishbone * frontal bone * funny bone * greenstick fracture * hamate bone * hamulus * have a bone in one's leg * have a bone in one's throat * have a bone to pick * heel bone * hipbone * hyoid bone * innominate bone * intermediate cuneiform bone * jawbone * keep one's bone green * lacrimal bone * lamella * lateral cuneiform bone * long bone * lucky-bone * lunate bone * make no bones about * mastoid bone * medial cuneiform bone * membrane bone * nasal bone * navicular bone * near the bone * not make old bones * occipital bone * otic bone * palatine bone * parietal bone * pisiform bone * pull bone * pulley bone * rag-and-bone man * ringbone * scaphoid bone * shinbone * skin and bones * sphenoid bone * splint bone * stirrup bone * T-bone steak * temporal bone * throw a bone to * to the bone * trapezoid bone * triquetral bone * vomer bone * wishbone * work one's fingers to the bone * zygomatic boneSee also
* * coccygeal vertebra * cervical vertebra * calcaneus * carpal * acetabulum * clavicle * coccyx * costa * cranium * distal phalange * exostosis * femur * fibula * humerus * ilium * incus * inferior nasal concha * intermediate phalange * ischium * kneecap * lumbar vertebra * malleus * mandible * maxilla * metacarpal * metatarsal * myositis ossificans * orthopedic * os coxae * ossature * ossein * osseous * ossicle * ossification * ossify * ossuary * osteal * osteitis * osteoblast * osteoclasis * osteoclast * osteocyte * osteogenesis * osteolysis * osteoma * osteomalacia * osteomyelitis * osteophyte * osteoplastic * osteoplasty * osteoporosis * osteosarcoma * osteosis * osteotome * osteotomy * patella * pelvic girdle * pelvis * phalanx * proximal phalange * pubis * radius * rib * sacral vertebra * sacrum * scapula * shoulder blade * skeleton * skull * stapes * sternum * talus * tarsal * thoracic vertebra * tibia * trapezium * ulna * vertebra *External links
*Etymology 2
Origin unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.Verb
(bon)- “Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned', and who you had ' boned it from.”
- as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me of boning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.
- Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.Verb
(bon)- (Knight)
- Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges.