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Remains vs Remanent - What's the difference?

remains | remanent |

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

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.

    remanent

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • remaining or persisting especially after an electrical or magnetic influence is removed
  • remanent magnetism'', ''remanent induction'', ''remanent polarization
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • That little hope that is remanent hath its degree according to the infancy or growth of the habit.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which remains; a remnant; a residue.