What's the difference between leftover and remainder?

Leftover


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
  • (2) If using old leftovers feels a little wartime in its frugality: even better.
  • (3) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
  • (4) Verdict: Funded by leftovers from the 2010 funding deal, it means no top-slicing from the new licence fee agreement.
  • (5) Those that do exist bear Saudi Arabia's logo, but they are torn and thin – leftovers from a huge aid donation during cyclone Nargis.
  • (6) They weren't aware that MSG was what they'd liked in Japan - but the US Army catering staff noticed that their men enjoyed the leftover ration packs of the demobilised Japanese Army much more than they did their own, and began to ask why.
  • (7) We eat twice a day and snack at tea time, with leftovers and teas always available.
  • (8) Transport of leftover feed from infectious disease (IBD) farms to susceptible flocks on clean premises is believed to have played an important role in the transmission of this disease to new farms and to new areas.
  • (9) Hand washing with soap before meals by all family members protected against cholera (OR = 0.2, 95 percent CI 0.02-0.96), suggesting that persons asymptomatically infected with Vibrio cholerae 01 may have been the initial source for contamination of the leftover foods.
  • (10) Leftover food from the café is given to the “Tumbleweeds”, the bookshop’s resident writers.
  • (11) Consistent with this, was the fact that 37% were unaware of safe methods of disposal of leftover medicines.
  • (12) Then there are the "ethylene absorbing" discs you can place in a bowl to keep your fruit fresh for longer; the polyurethane foam cushions designed to prevent fruit and veg from becoming bruised; and the silicone "food huggers" into which you pop your leftover half a lemon or tomato.
  • (13) If this show wasn’t called Looking, it should have been called Heart to Hearts over Chinese Takeout Leftovers.
  • (14) 8.13pm BST Mary is being extremely naught in stealing Frances' leftovers.
  • (15) In his dust blue suit and shimmering yellow tie, he is rounder than he was in 2008 (eating too many of his children's leftovers).
  • (16) Salmonella infantis and enterotoxin-producing Staphylococcus aureus were both isolated from samples of leftover turkey, and S. infantis was isolated from 18 of 20 stool specimens.
  • (17) The shoot is catered, and afterwards Mom takes the leftovers and passes out the Brie and watercress sandwiches to her friends, shouting, 'Free yuppie food!'
  • (18) "Navalny carefully distanced himself from the shrill, old-guard western-friendly liberals – 'hellish, insane, crazy mass of the leftovers and bread crusts of the democracy movement of the 80s', he called them – who simply participated in Putin's cult of personality in reverse."
  • (19) To buy it from the Guardian Bookshop for £22.50, click here Uyen Luu’s seabass congee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer With kale, ginger and dill Congee is a soup usually made from leftover cooked rice and is a breakfast favourite in Vietnam.
  • (20) Photograph: Kareem Shaheen for the Guardian The Guardian, the first western media organisation to visit the site of the attack, examined a warehouse and silos directly next to where the missile had landed, and found nothing but an abandoned space covered in dust and half-destroyed silos reeking of leftover grain and animal manure.

Remainder


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.
  • (n.) The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction.
  • (n.) An estate in expectancy, generally in land, which becomes an estate in possession upon the determination of a particular prior estate, created at the same time, and by the same instrument; for example, if land be conveyed to A for life, and on his death to B, A's life interest is a particuar estate, and B's interest is a remainder, or estate in remainder.
  • (a.) Remaining; left; left over; refuse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The remainder of the radioactivity appeared chromatographically just prior to the bisantrene peak, indicating that compounds more polar than the parent were present as transformation products.
  • (2) One-half of the specimens were treated with citric acid, pH 1, for 3 minutes, while the remainder served as untreated control specimens.
  • (3) The remainder of the plasmid appeared to be associated with five positioned nucleosomes and two nonnucleosomal, partially protected regions on the bulk of the molecules.
  • (4) When S+ followed cocaine, stereotyped bar-pressing developed with markedly increased responding during the remainder of the session.
  • (5) Ligation of the left renal vein on the medial side of the adrenolumbar tributary maintained a patent left renal vein in all cases with 60% of left kidney biopsies showing no histological evidence of changes to glomeruli or tubules, and the remainder showing early acute tubular necrosis.
  • (6) The time to first dose of opioid in the remainder was greatly increased.
  • (7) Circular cuts which surgically isolated the medial basal hypothalamus (MBH) from the remainder of the brain did not prevent copulation 4 to 24 h later, but did block reflex ovulation.
  • (8) The remainder of the anticancer chemotherapeutic agents abolished the NNPG activation of guanylate cyclase 40--70%.
  • (9) A further 12% had oligoclonal immunoglobulins and the remainder had no qualitative abnormality of the immunoglobulin profile.
  • (10) with half given as an intravenous bolus and the remainder administered subcutaneously.
  • (11) The remainder of immunoreactive alpha-MSH coeluted with synthetic alpha-MSH, desacetyl alpha-MSH, or their methionine sulfoxides.
  • (12) Cerebral blood flow was in the low normal range throughout the remainder of the brain.
  • (13) Of the excess SCPK, 77% was BB isoenzyme; the remainder was mainly MM with traces of MB.
  • (14) At different times after starting feeding or injection, tissues (albumen gland, digestive gland and digestive tube, central nervous system, remainder parts), hemolymph and faeces were analyzed for unchanged 2,2'- or 4,4'-DCB.
  • (15) People who have already been infected by AIDS are primarily members of high risk groups in which the disease spreads at least 10 times and more likely 100 times more rapidly than in the remainder of the population.
  • (16) Radical resection or local excision combined with pelvic radiation therapy may be more appropriate for the remainder of early cancers.
  • (17) The remainder of the cells stained with the C-terminally directed antibodies only.
  • (18) However, that difference was no longer apparent during the remainder of the study.
  • (19) In the remainder of the skeleton, hip dysplasia with premature osteoarthritis, knee joint bony ankylosis and thoracic and thoraco-lumbar scoliosis are other undescribed findings.
  • (20) At each restriction site, a fraction of the chromosomes is cut rapidly after which the remainder is refractory.