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Remains vs Margin - What's the difference?

remains | margin |

As nouns the difference between remains and margin

is that remains is what is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse while margin is (typography) the edge of the paper that remains blank.

As verbs the difference between remains and margin

is that remains is (remain) while margin is to add a to.

remains

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.}}
  • (rare)  .
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (remain)
  • We'll go ahead, while she remains here.

    margin

    English

    (wikipedia margin)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (typography) The edge of the paper that remains blank.
  • The edge or border of any flat surface.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
  • *
  • The lobule margins , furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
  • (figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from of a set or group.
  • * 1999 , Pierre François, ''Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall, page 186,
  • As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.
  • A difference between results, characteristics, scores.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Chelsea will point to that victory margin as confirmation of their superiority - but Spurs will complain their hopes of turning the game around were damaged fatally by Atkinson's decision.}}
  • A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
  • margin of error
  • (finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
  • (finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.
  • Derived terms

    * extensive margin * intensive margin * gross margin * margin call * margin of error * safety margin

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add a to.
  • Anagrams

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