(n.) That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion; a remnant.
(n.) The body from which the soul has departed; a corpse; especially, the body, or some part of the body, of a deceased saint or martyr; -- usually in the plural when referring to the whole body.
(n.) Hence, a memorial; anything preserved in remembrance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships.
Example Sentences:
(1) But a big part of the High Line's success is its planting and landscaping, which is intelligent, imaginative and well considered, in the way it converts industrial relics into a place of urban pleasure.
(2) David, the RSA manager, said the emergence of a communist relic as a 21st century security threat was a bizarre blast from the past.
(3) Governor Nikki Haley signed legislation on Thursday that would require the flag to be removed from government grounds within 24 hours and placed in the Confederate relic room and military museum.
(4) Important evidences were obtained for elucidating that the RNA transcript from the Bacillus subtilis (BSU) trrnD operon is a relic of an early peptide-synthesizing ribozyme.
(5) Edge of the Cedars state park Ruins of an Anasazi pueblo Cedars state park, Utah Photograph: Alamy Utah has a long, colourful history of human habitation, as evidenced by ruins, petroglyphs and relics left behind by the Ancestral Puebloan, Hopi, Ute and Navajo people.
(6) Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, socialist national secretary, dismissed it as a collection of "old relics" from the right of Sarkozy's ruling UMP party.
(7) And now, in a damp-smelling dressing room at Berlin's Admiralspalast, with its flaking plaster and a carpet that looks like a relic from the communist East, he reveals German is next on his list.
(8) Today, it stands as one of the few relics of a Hiroshima that not many of its 1.2 million residents are now old enough to remember.
(9) The young Kaminski went further by finding a political home in a nauseating relic of a party rooted in pre-war nationalist politics, in which he was then active for some years.
(10) The majority of AluI-relic DNA clones contained barley simple sequence satellite DNA and other families of repetitive DNA.
(11) He is seen by many, particularly those outside of Italy, as the only viable option to lead the country among a host of politicians who are either too rightwing, too anti-establishment or, on the left, relics of the past.
(12) It describes an expedition into an apparently poisoned region known as Area X, in which relic human structures have been not just reclaimed but wilfully redesigned by a mutated nature.
(13) As a teacher of entrepreneurial journalism at the City University of New York, I see openings for my students to compete with the dying relics by starting highly targeted, ruthlessly relevant new news businesses at incredibly low cost and low risk.
(14) The Alabama county argues that Section 5 is an unconstitutional infringement on "state sovereignty", and a relic from the bygone days of poll taxes and literacy tests.
(15) Relics of these repeats are seen in the positioning of sequence matches between transfer and ribosomal RNAs.
(16) As a ghostly relic from the building that was needlessly bulldozed to make way for the 1970s library, itself now to be swept away, it is a pointed reminder that one day, given Birmingham council's lust for demolition, this building's turn will also come.
(17) We’ll have a few relics left but, ecologically speaking, the great apes will be gone.” Grauer’s gorilla: world's largest great ape being wiped out by war Read more The eastern gorilla, or Gorilla beringei , is composed of two subspecies – mountain gorillas and Grauer’s gorilla – found in pockets of rainforest in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
(18) And, of course, there is the Ulster Museum , which houses a diverse collection of art and artefacts, including many relics from prehistoric Ireland.
(19) "This rights a wrong which was a relic of that age."
(20) Cameron ended the day at a rally in Leeds by taunting Labour after it had tried to portray him as an unreliable relic of the 1980s by dressing him up as Gene Hunt perched on his red Audi Quattro.
Relinquish
Definition:
(v. t.) To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.
(v. t.) To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he insisted that there had to be “proper succession planning” before he would relinquish the leadership.
(2) This stands in high contrast to many western hip-hop stars who have been slow to relinquish control of their "intellectual" property in the same way (take Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind, for example, which quickly generated a host of YouTube tributes that were quickly removed by EMI ).
(3) In a statement published shortly before the disclosure of material as a result of freedom of information requests, Ashcroft indicated he would relinquish his non-dom status in line with new Tory policy to remain in the Lords.
(4) Unusual features included the illness chosen, the father as the parent falsifying illness, his failure to pursue unnecessary investigations and treatment, and the ease with which he relinquished the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.
(5) It's hard to think of a more extreme way of relinquishing responsibility.
(6) Thompson also agreed to relinquish his role as "editor-in-chief" as regards News Corp's bid for Sky.
(7) Transsexuals who relinquished their wish for surgery did not differ substantially from transsexuals with an unaltered wish for surgery.
(8) Transsexuals who had not undergone surgery, although it had been offered to them providing they fulfilled the usual requirements, were classified into various subgroups, measured according to their attitude towards sex reassignment surgery: they were transsexuals with an unaltered wish for surgery, transsexuals who were ambivalent towards surgery (hesitating patients), and transsexuals who had relinquished their wish for surgery and lived in the initial gender role.
(9) The symptoms often begin in the presence of the family, allow a temporary relinquishing of social roles, and result in the mobilization of the social network in support of the person.
(10) Techniques for the first group include ritualising the group process, emphasis on reality rather than fantasy and dilution of inter-patient rapport; techniques that aid patients with good ego endowment to relinquish pathological controls include support of basic questions concerning the individual's identity, free flow of fantasy, tolerance of tension, silences or strong ventilation of affect and facilitating observations from patients concerning the process of interaction.
(11) He continued to call on the military to relinquish power, saying democracy will never come to Myanmar as long as the military continued to dominate the political landscape.
(12) Some are very concerned, some relinquish the dog to a refuge, but others think the dog is happy or even being intentionally spiteful," Mendl told the Guardian.
(13) Willingness to relinquish control, as evidenced by hypnotic susceptibility, enjoyment of alcohol, and inability to control thoughts and movements near the end of coitus, was found in this study to be predictive of the consistency with which females reported experiencing orgasm during sexual intercourse.
(14) Djokovic is hiding his problems better, but they're still visible in his tennis, as he parlays advantage into break point with a couple of unforced errors before lashing a crosscourt backhand wide – way wide – to relinquish control of the set and match.
(15) The government is facing a clash with some of the country's most senior judges who will this week attempt to force ministers to relinquish control of the running of the supreme court.
(16) Except sex.” Rechtshaid and Flowers bonded on the phone over Dire Straits and Depeche Mode, relinquishing control to each other in Flowers’ Battle Born studios and crafting an accessible yet sophisticated power rock record.
(17) Guidelines for the medical profession that are aimed at preventing psychological disability in relinquishing mothers are outlined.
(18) Councillors may be reluctant to agree to a perceived relinquishment of power.
(19) Nicki I think the days of "I'm just going to let someone else do it, get a digital company to do it" are over, because people are beginning to realise that they've actually relinquished their creativity, research, planning, strategy – everything.
(20) In a statement, the UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said: "Having reviewed the video footage on the Daily Telegraph website, and other media reporting of Lord Laird's engagement with alleged lobbyists, I telephoned his home this morning and as a result he has relinquished the party whip, pending the outcome of the review of his behaviour that he has already requested of the relevant authorities at Westminster."