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Rubish vs Residue - What's the difference?

rubish | residue |

As an adjective rubish

is like a rube.

As a noun residue is

whatever remains after something else has been removed.

rubish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like a rube.
  • * 1992 , Donald Barthelme, Kim A. Herzinger, The teachings of Don B.
  • I suppose I am a rubish hayseed in some sense, full of down-home notions that contradict the more sophisticated notions of my colleagues.

    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

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