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Residue vs Leavings - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between residue and leavings

is that residue is whatever remains after something else has been removed while leavings is a worthless and incidental residuum, as scraps from a meal or shavings or sawdust from wood.

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

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    leavings

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A worthless and incidental residuum, as scraps from a meal or shavings or sawdust from wood.
  • :The leavings were thrown to the dogs.
  • A worthless surfeit of material, as leftovers from a meal or scrap lumber.
  • :The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful.

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