Remain
[rɪ'meɪn] or [rɪ'men]
Definition
(verb.) be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.; 'There remains the question of who pulled the trigger'; 'Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war'.
Edited by Eva--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
(v. i.) To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
(v. t.) To await; to be left to.
(n.) State of remaining; stay.
(n.) That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
(n.) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
(n.) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
Checker: Marsha
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Continue, endure, abide, stay, tarry, keep, last.[2]. Be left, be left behind.
Checked by Edwin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stay, continue, wait, stop, tarry, halt, sojourn, rest, dwell, abide, last,endure, accrue, survive
ANT:Fly, vanish, remove, depart, speed, hasten, press, flit, disappear, pass
Edited by Charlene
Definition
v.i. to stay or be left behind: to continue in the same place: to be left after or out of a greater number: to continue in an unchanged form or condition: to last.—n. stay: abode: what is left esp. in pl. Remains′ a corpse: the literary productions of one dead.—n. Remain′der that which remains or is left behind after the removal of a part: the balance: an interest in an estate to come into effect after a certain other event happens: that which remains of an edition when the sale of a book has practically ceased.—adj. left over.
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Examples
- I then signed to Mr. Peggotty to remain where he was, and emerged from their shade to speak to her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The shoes are then covered with a coat of rubber varnish, and are put into cars and run into the vulcanizing ovens, where they remain from six to seven hours at a temperature of about 275°. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I would suggest that in the meantime, we remain perfectly quiet, and keep these matters secret even from Oliver himself. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In Middlemarch a wife could not long remain ignorant that the town held a bad opinion of her husband. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There are reasons now known to me, reasons in which you have no part, rendering it far better for you that you should not remain here. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Instead he let him remain in his dungeon in the Bastille, where he died in 1589. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- If a close coil of wire is suspended between the poles of a strong horseshoe magnet, it will not assume any characteristic position but will remain wherever placed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The march, now, had to be made with great caution, for he was approaching Lee's army and nearing the country that still remained open to the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If the central depths were untouched, hardly a pin-point of surface remained the same. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Meantime the whole hall was in a stir; most people rose and remained standing, for a change; some walked about, all talked and laughed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The lunch was soon brought, but it remained for some time on the table. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As she pressed me to stay to dinner, I remained, and I believe we talked about nothing but him all day. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Ott, who has remained in his employ for over forty years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The tie between the Dagonets, the du Lacs of Maryland, and their aristocratic Cornish kinsfolk, the Trevennas, had always remained close and cordial. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But after the building of the temple and the organization of the priesthood, the prophetic type remains over and outside the formal religious scheme. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ancient remains point to a much wider distribution of the Basque speech and people over Spain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If it fails on its merits, he doesn't worry or fret about it, but, on the contrary, regards it as a useful fact learned; remains cheerful and tries something else. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- At Cnossos there are Neolithic remains as old or older than any of the pre-dynastic remains of Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was, consequently, a delay of some four days in building bridges out of the remains of the old railroad bridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You need not fear to hear the few remaining words we have to say. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The old woman's face was wrinkled; her two remaining teeth protruded over her under lip; and her eyes were bright and piercing. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Circumstances, of late, had combined to cut her off more and more from her few remaining friends. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Genoa and Venice, the only two remaining which can pretend to an independent existence, have both been enfeebled by it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I DID proceed to Windsor, but not with the intention of remaining there. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- After remaining in thought a minute he added gently, I will not intrude upon you longer. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A large part of the remaining portions of the book read like good Scripture, however. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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