(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.
Vestige
Definition:
(n.) The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Conservatives are offering the gay community no new measures to remedy the remaining vestiges of homophobia and transphobia .
(2) Cells and cell lines from malignant rat mammary tumours of increasing metastatic potential and from malignant areas of human ductal carcinomas largely fail to yield fully differentiated myoepithelial-like or alveolar-like cells in culture; however, weakly metastasizing rat cells yield variants which may retain a vestige of the myoepithelial phenotype.
(3) Many bacterial vestiges were probably retained in eukaryotes, mostly those related to the dominant and lasting role of small replicons in all their bacterial precursors.
(4) The pledge to meet the international aid target is one of the few remaining vestiges of the pre-government, compassionate Conservative Cameron.
(5) This was a design clearly untroubled by the least vestige of aesthetic ambition.
(6) The results suggest that the Bhil frequencies include vestiges of the ancestral genepool of a more widespread aboriginal population whose influence is detectable in the gene frequencies of some other populations in India.
(7) This is a case report of a rare tumour of the ovary originally developing from the embryonal vestiges of the Wolffian duct and becoming a pure mesonephrotic carcinoma.
(8) These 18 amino acids may either constitute the unique vestige of a divergent evolution between the B domains of factors V and VIII or reveal the convergent evolution toward a critical epitope involved in the activation of both procofactors.
(9) After a variable and partially overlapping time period, these fibers enter the cortical plate while the subplate zone disappears leaving only a vestige of cells scattered throughout the subcortical white matter.
(10) Romney, dispensing with the last vestiges of respect for the office of the president, said: "You will get your chance in a minute.
(11) The library did not deem it appropriate to pay citizen Burovaya [Skorodumov widow] for the erotic literature, broadsheets and magazines, as this literature presents neither scientific nor historical value to the library’s readers, and is an especially harmful vestige of bourgeois ideology,” he wrote.
(12) "This is a world-first initiative designed to remove the last vestige of glamour from tobacco products," she told parliament.
(13) The cane mouse apparently is unique among the animals challenged so far in these ways in that it seems to have no vestige of reproductive photoresponsiveness.
(14) In all likelihood, however, few PAAs will be shown to produce a single "pure" activity and because there are some similarities in the different SARs (even though there are some very clear differences) it is not unreasonable to assume that many PAAs will produce more than one type of effect or will display vestiges of one or more different components of action.
(15) But there was a nervousness among some senior Tories that Osborne had abandoned the last vestige of compassionate Conservatism and bet the farm on such an unflinching approach to the deficit.
(16) The method is also useful for the evaluation of chronic ankle instability, follow-up examinations, and for the detection of vestiges of previous trauma of the contralateral ankle.
(17) We hypothesize that this pathway represents vestiges of a more primitive C pathway.
(18) The data are compatible with the notion that suppression of clonal expansion represents the primary mechanism of tolerance maintenance (induction), and that the infrequently observed serum reactivity in such tolerant mice represents a vestige of the means whereby-cell mediated suppression was induced.
(19) Just outside the university, vestiges of recent counter-protests littered the pavements – scattered leaflets and bold red banners reading "say no to Occupy Central" affixed to the guardrails.
(20) Along the path runs a silhouetted Pip, the last vestiges of sunlight again twinkling off the water as he passes two unoccupied gallows, a sorry bunch of dry flowers in one hand, clouds smeared across the sky like oil paint.