remnant
part of speech
noun (a remnant, remnants)
meaning for a pupil
1) A small part of something that is left after the rest has gone or been used: the remnants of the meal. tree →
2) A piece of cloth left over from a roll, often sold cheaply. tree →
3) A small surviving part of something old: remnants of a Roman wall. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history and science lessons: remnants of old cities, remnants of a forest, remnants of a storm. In maths, a remnant is like a remainder: a 10 m roll of fabric cut into 3 m pieces leaves a 1 m remnant. In everyday life shops sell carpet and fabric remnants. Phrases: «the remnants of», «fabric remnant», «a remnant of the past».
examples
- Only remnants of the castle wall are left. tree →
- We ate the remnants of the birthday cake. tree →
- Mum made a cushion from a fabric remnant. tree →
- Cutting 4 m pieces from a 14 m roll leaves a 2 m remnant. tree →
- The remnants of the storm brought rain to the coast. tree →
- Small remnants of the old forest still grow by the river. tree →
- But Vasilissa set the remnants of the hag's supper before her doll, burst into tears, and said:-- tree →
note
Countable: remnants (often plural). Similar: remains, leftovers, remainder (maths). In division by length, the remnant is the remainder.
In the corpora
- And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive for a great deliverance.
- And out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.
- and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
- Then made He a remnant to have dominion over the nobles and the people; the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
- And the remnant of the sodomites that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
Trees and pragmatics
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