Wreck vs Remainder - What's the difference?

In legal|lang=en terms the difference between wreck and remainder

is that wreck is (legal) goods, etc cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck while remainder is (legal) an estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined.

As nouns the difference between wreck and remainder

is that wreck is something or someone that has been ruined while remainder is a part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.

As verbs the difference between wreck and remainder

is that wreck is to destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless while remainder is (commerce) to mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.

As an adjective remainder is

remaining.

wreck

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something or someone that has been ruined.

He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.

The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.

* Cowper

To the fair haven of my native home, / The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.

An event in which something is damaged through collision.

* Addison

the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds

* Spenser

Hard and obstinate / As is a rock amidst the raging floods, / 'Gainst which a ship, of succour desolate, / Doth suffer wreck , both of herself and goods.

* J. R. Green

Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.

(legal) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.

(Bouvier)

Synonyms

* crash * ruins

Derived terms

* shipwreck

Verb

(en verb)

To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.

He wrecked the car in a collision.

That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!

* Shakespeare

Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked .

To ruin or dilapidate.

(Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.

To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.

* Daniel

Weak and envied, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves.

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* build * construct * make * produce

Derived terms

* bewreck * wrecker * wreckage

References

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

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.