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REMAINS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The dead body of a human being

Example:

honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay

Synonyms:

cadaver; clay; corpse; remains; stiff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

body; dead body (a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person)

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

cremains (the remains of a dead body after cremation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A relic that has been excavated from the soil

Synonyms:

archeological remains; remains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

relic (an antiquity that has survived from the distant past)

remains (any object that is left unused or still extant)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any object that is left unused or still extant

Example:

I threw out the remains of my dinner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

object; physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

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

archeological remains; remains (a relic that has been excavated from the soil)

fossil (the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb remain

Credits

 Context examples: 

In cancer, the length of time after primary treatment for a cancer ends that the patient remains free of certain complications or events that the treatment was intended to prevent or delay.

(EFS, NCI Dictionary)

It usually remains asymptomatic for a long period.

(Choroid Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The function, location or structure of human CNK1 remains unknown.

(Connector Enhancer of KSR-Like Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Ah, said Holmes, I think that what you have been good enough to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce all that remains.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“That will be only twenty-four miles,” she urged, “if the wind remains high all night.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This gene may play a role in post-transcriptional regulation; however the function remains to be elucidated.

(EWSR1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The mechanism of action of these compounds remains unknown.

(Cephalostatin, NCI Thesaurus)

Often arranged as tandem repeats in extracellular proteins, the function of the domains remains unclear, but are thought to perform a structural role.

(Epidermal Growth Factor Superfamily Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

One other memory remains with me of this wonderful day, and with it I will close this letter.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have that curiosity beside me at this moment, but not a trace of writing now remains beyond a single scratch, such as a man might make with his thumb-nail.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)