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REMAINING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not used up
Example:
unexpended provisions
Synonyms:
left; left over; leftover; odd; remaining; unexpended
Classified under:
Similar:
unexhausted (not used up completely)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb remain
Context examples:
The remaining room appeared more promising, and my companion settled down to a systematic examination.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The two remaining oars were quickly broken.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The hypnotic stage was even longer in coming than before; and when it came the time remaining until full sunrise was so short that we began to despair.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He also began to use strips of the one remaining blanket for his feet.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“Nay, my lord,” said Alleyne, “I still have some moneys remaining.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My remaining stock I carried with me, part in money and part in goods, in hopes to improve my fortunes.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane's week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
With a stout bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention of remaining where I was.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Wish it she must, for his sake—be the consequence nothing to herself, but his remaining single all his life.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The remaining genetic variants play a role in both types of breast cancer.
(Detailed genetic study provides most comprehensive map of risk to date of breast cancer risk, University of Cambridge)
