Remains vs Remanent - What's the difference?
remains | remanent |
What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
Historical or archaeological relics.
(senseid)The extant writings of a deceased person.
All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
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(remain)
remaining or persisting especially after an electrical or magnetic influence is removed
* Jeremy Taylor
As nouns the difference between remains and remanent
is that remains is what is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse while remanent is that which remains; a remnant; a residue.As a verb remains
is third-person singular of remain.As an adjective remanent is
remaining or persisting especially after an electrical or magnetic influence is removed.remains
English
(wikipedia remains)Noun
(en-plural noun)- The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
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.}}
Verb
(head)- We'll go ahead, while she remains here.
remanent
English
Adjective
(head)- remanent magnetism'', ''remanent induction'', ''remanent polarization
- That little hope that is remanent hath its degree according to the infancy or growth of the habit.