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REMAINDER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

end; oddment; remainder; remnant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("remainder" is a kind of...):

piece of cloth; piece of material (a separate part consisting of fabric)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remainder"):

fag end (the frayed end of a length of cloth or rope)

Derivation:

remain (be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend

Synonyms:

difference; remainder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("remainder" is a kind of...):

number (a concept of quantity involving zero and units)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remainder"):

balance (the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("remainder" is a kind of...):

number (a concept of quantity involving zero and units)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Something left after other parts have been taken away

Example:

he took what he wanted and I got the balance

Synonyms:

balance; remainder; residual; residue; residuum; rest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("remainder" is a kind of...):

component; component part; constituent; part; portion (something determined in relation to something that includes it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remainder"):

leftover; remnant (a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists)

Derivation:

remain (be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.)

remainder (sell cheaply as remainders)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell cheaply as remainders

Example:

The publisher remaindered the books

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "remainder" is one way to...):

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

remainder (something left after other parts have been taken away)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The remainder are squamous cell carcinomas, adenocarcinomas and small cell neuroendocrine carcinomas.

(Bladder Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Aggressive nodal or extranodal mature (peripheral) T-cell lymphomas that do not belong to the better defined entities of the remainder of mature T-cell lymphomas.

(Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus)

A sustained and substantial impairment or disruption of a person's ability to conduct normal life functions for the remainder of his/her life.

(Disability or Permanent Damage, NCI Thesaurus)

The remainder are composed of diffuse or fibrillary subtypes with malignant astrocytomas occuring only rarely in the cerebellum during childhood.

(Childhood Cerebellar Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Remainder of a tumor or a neoplasm/cancer after primary, potentially curative therapy.

(Minimal Residual Disease, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Following rectal or oral administration, only a small amount of mesalamine is absorbed; the remainder, acting topically, reduces bowel inflammation, diarrhea, rectal bleeding and stomach pain.

(Mesalamine, NCI Thesaurus)

But now, from what little I've seen of them, they strike me as a pack of ninnies, most of them, and ninety percent of the remainder as bores.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The remainder are adenoid cystic carcinomas, mucoepidermoid carcinomas and carcinomas with neuroendocrine differentiation.

(Laryngeal Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Cassini's orbit will remain nearly equatorial for the remainder of 2015, during which the spacecraft will have four close encounters with Titan, two with Dione and three with the geyser-moon, Enceladus.

(Saturn Spacecraft Returns to the Realm of Icy Moons, NASA)