remnant的意思|remnant的解释-里氏词典

remnant ['remnәnt]

n. 剩余, 零料, 遗迹

a. 剩余的, 残余的

[医] 遗留的, 残余的, 遗留物, 残余

remnant

[ noun ]

a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists

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a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

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Remnant \Rem"nant\ (r?m"nant), a. [OF. remanant, p. pr. of
remanoir, remaindre. See {Remanent}, {Remain}.]
Remaining; yet left. [R.] ``Because of the remnant dregs of
his disease.'' --Fuller.

And quiet dedicate her remnant life
To the just duties of an humble wife. --Prior.

Remnant \Rem"nant\, n. [OF. remanant. See {Remnant}, a.]
1. That which remains after a part is removed, destroyed,
used up, performed, etc.; residue. --Chaucer.

The remnant that are left of the captivity. --Neh.
i. 3.

The remnant of my tale is of a length
To tire your patience. --Dryden.

2. A small portion; a slight trace; a fragment; a little bit;
a scrap.

Some odd quirks and remnants of wit. --Shak.

3. (Com.) An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons,
carpets, etc.

Syn: Residue; rest; remains; remainder.

Successes included observations of a white dwarf star, a star near the end of its life; a galaxy 41 million light years away that is believed to contain a black hole, ad Crab Nebula, a remnant of a supernova that occurred more than 900 years ago.
As for the team of young economists, Mr. Arida was the last remnant until his departure this week.
Jews revere the wall as the last remnant of the ancient Jewish temple.
Plans are also moving slowly for Shiodome, a remnant of the government's 1987 sell-off of the state-owned railway to private companies.
Former East German Communist leader Egon Krenz has been stripped of his last remnant of public office, a parliament seat, ADN said.
The Copar pumice is the remnant of a volcanic explosion 150,000 years ago and is considered valuable because of its large-sized chunks, its purity and its proximity to the highway.
I could find only one remnant of Espana autentica in that edition of the paper.
But the 1970s fiscal crisis left one remnant that now hangs ominously over the mayor.
It is the Jews' holiest site, and the location of the Western Wall, or Wailing Wall, remnant of their Biblical temple.
The State Department disposed of another Cold War remnant Friday, announcing that Czechoslovak and East German reporters will be able to enter the department unescorted.
The groups particularly oppose the coronoation's rice ceremony _ during which the new emperor is believed to commune with the gods. They claim it is a remnant of prewar nationalism.
The wall, the last remnant of the Jewish Temple, is Judaism's holiest site.
The radicals oppose the monarchy as a remnant of Japan's prewar imperialism.
But one remnant of the Iraqi presence remains: With Kuwaiti dinars destroyed or stashed abroad, what little commerce being done in the capital still is transacted in Iraqi dinars bearing Saddam Hussein's face.
Witnesses credited Michael Wells, 31, with lifting a remnant of a trailer home and pulling eight people out of the wreckage.
For one thing, peatniks say, bogs are places of wild and melancholy beauty, a remnant of primeval times.
Kaiser, a remnant of the empire of industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, typifies the problem confronting the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. and workers alike.
At Jerusalem's Western Wall, commonly known as the Wailing Wall and the last remnant of the rebuilt temple destroyed in 70 A.D., a large oil-burning lamp is lighted each night by leading rabbis and biblical scholars.
Several yards away, providing a symbol of declining Soviet influence, some youthful entrepreneurs were selling Soviet military uniforms displayed on hangers attached to a remnant of the Berlin wall.
The leaders will likely meet at some time during the summit in the rose-and-silver-colored Hall of St. Catherine, a 19th century remnant of the Russo-Byzantine-style Imperial residence that is now the Grand Kremlin Palace.
The survey findings indicated that in this presidential election year, denominational bias about candidates has dwindled to a remnant, in contrast to what it was 30 years ago.
Despite the latest fall and an overall bearish mood among oil traders over the past two weeks, crude has seemed unwilling to give up a remnant "war premium" of around $5 a barrel in recent sessions on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
With that in mind, near the end of the sale, one unidentified buyer outbid fierce competition to pay $1,210 for a cellophanewrapped remnant of Joe DiMaggio's wedding cake from his 1939 marriage to Dorothy Arnold.
The buyer will have an anxious moment before he serves this rare remnant. The jeroboam is the star of a spectacular wine auction, the best at Christie's for many years.
Jews revere the Wailing Wall as the last remnant of the ancient temple destroyed by the Romans in the year 70. Moslems believe the Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven from the Mount, site of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosques.

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