As nouns the difference between residue and dreg
is that residue is whatever remains after something else has been removed while dreg is sediment in a liquid.
residue
English
Noun
(
en noun)
Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
(chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
(legal) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
(mathematics) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
Derived terms
* nonresidue
* quadratic residue
* residual
* residuary
Related terms
* residuum
Anagrams
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dreg
English
Noun
(
en noun)
Sediment in a liquid.
By extension, the lowest and most worthless part of something.
Usage notes
This term is usually used in plural: see dregs.
Quotations
* 1602?': What makes this pretty abruption? What too curious '''dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain of our love? — William Shakespeare, ''Troilus and Cressida
* 1768':O! be the cup of joy to thee consign'd, / Of joy unmix'd, without a '''dreg behind! — William Hayley, from 'On the Fear of Death, An Epistle to a Lady, 1768', in ''Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects 1818.
* 1910': Fear and trauma may drain to the last '''dreg the dischargeable nervous energy, and, therefore, the greatest possible exhaustion may be produced by fear and trauma. George W. Crile. in an address delivered at the Massachusetts General Hospital 15 Oct 1910, collected in ''The Origin and Nature of Emotions
References
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.048
