Remember vs Remainder - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between remember and remainder

is that remember is to recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory while remainder is (commerce) to mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.

As a noun remainder is

a part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.

As an adjective remainder is

remaining.

remember

English

Alternative forms

* remembre (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)

To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.

* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266 citation

, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}

To memorize; to put something into memory.

To not forget (to do something required)

To convey greetings from.

(obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively)

* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2

Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, / Which is not yet perform'd me.

* Chapman

My friends remembered me of home.

* , Secret Parting, lines 5-7

''But soon, remembering her how brief the whole

''Of joy, which its own hours annihilate,

''Her set gaze gathered

To engage in the process of recalling memories.

Usage notes

* In sense 1 this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . * In sense 3 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. * See

Synonyms

* recall * reminisce

Derived terms

* rememberer * remembrance

Statistics

* English reporting verbs 1000 English basic words

remainder
English
(wikipedia remainder)
Alternative forms
* R (mathematics)
Noun
(en noun)
A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.

''My son ate part of his cake and I ate the remainder .

''You can have the remainder of my clothes.

*

Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.

(mathematics) The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If (n) (dividend) and d'' (divisor) are integers, then (n) can always be expressed in the form ''n = dq + r'', where ''q'' (quotient) and ''r'' (remainder ) are also integers and 0 ≤ ''r'' < ''d .

''17 leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3.

''11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1.

(mathematics) The number left over after a simple subtraction

''10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6

(commerce) Excessive stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.

''I got a really good price on this shirt because it was a remainder .

(legal) An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined

Synonyms
* (a part or parts remaining) remnant, residue, rest * surplus
Derived terms
* remainderman * contingent remainder
See also
* addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend * modulus
See also
* remainderman
Adjective
(-)
remaining

Synonyms
* leftover
Verb
(en verb)
(commerce) To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.

''The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer at a reduced price.