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Remains vs Remainders - What's the difference?

remains | remainders |

As nouns the difference between remains and remainders

is that remains is what is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse while remainders is .

As verbs the difference between remains and remainders

is that remains is (remain) while remainders is (remainder).

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.

    remainders

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (remainder)