What's the difference between leftover and surplus?

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.

Surplus


Definition:

  • (n.) That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
  • (n.) Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
  • (a.) Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (2) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
  • (3) Quoting the BBC-commissioned survey of more than 2,000 adults, Lyons said they had been given six choices what to do with the licence fee surplus once digital switchover was complete.
  • (4) The Tories plan to start running a surplus from 2018.
  • (5) Any surplus food left over goes to anaerobic digestion energy plants, which turn food waste into electricity.
  • (6) He still insists that the nation will return to surplus by 2020 – a make-or-break target that will define the success or failure of his fiscal mission.
  • (7) He shares any dificit or surplus remaining at the end of the year.
  • (8) These surplus chromophores become esterified and are temporarily taken up by the pigment epithelium to be re-entered into the visual cycle as fast as they can be processed by the regenerative machinery of the rod outer segments.
  • (9) In the midst of this catastrophe, the troika is insisting on further austerity to achieve massive primary budget surpluses of 3% in 2015, 4.5% in 2016 and even more in future years.
  • (10) George Osborne’s hopes of securing a budget surplus by the time of the next general election rest on continuing high levels of net migration to Britain, the Office for Budget Responsibility has made clear.
  • (11) Industry surplus is hard to avoid, but what Community Shop shows is that if we all work together we can make sure that surplus food delivers lasting social good."
  • (12) However, he became surplus to requirements under Steve Bruce and followed Paulo da Silva and David Healy out of the Stadium of Light.
  • (13) Transfection with B beta cDNA not only increased the synthesis of B beta chain but also increased the rate of synthesis of the other two component chains of fibrinogen and maintained surplus intracellular pools of A alpha and gamma chains.
  • (14) The possibility that Osborne could adopt a flexible approach surfaced when John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, asked him whether he would adopt a “less excessive surplus target”.
  • (15) Off came defensive midfielder Claudio Yacob, rendered surplus to requirements by the dismissals of Afellay and Adam, and on went forward Rickie Lambert.
  • (16) "The forces of capitalism are squeezing out anything that doesn't focus on extracting as much surplus value as it can from people and the planet.
  • (17) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
  • (18) Even in zoos voted the best in Europe, the Captive Animals’ Protection Society has pointed out, there can be enough evidence of animals behaving abnormally, or a casual approach to culling any surplus, to avoid them or, ideally, close them down.
  • (19) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
  • (20) In the medium term, Athens will have to aim at a 3.5% primary surplus.