different between carrion vs residue

English

Etymology

Old French caroigne (see modern French charogne), from Latin caro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ.?i.?n/

Noun

carrion (usually uncountable, plural carrions)

1. (chiefly uncountable) Dead flesh; carcasses.

   • They did eat the dead carrions.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119

     Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.

2. (countable, obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.

Derived terms

• carrion beetle
• carrion crow

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English residue, from Old French residu, from Latin residuum, neuter of residuus (“remaining”), from reside? (“I remain behind”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?du?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z?dju?/

Noun

residue (countable and uncountable, plural residues)

1. Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
2. (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
3. (biochemistry) A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
4. (law) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
5. (mathematics) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.

Synonyms

• (whatever remains): lave, remnant; See also Thesaurus:remainder

Derived terms

Related terms

• residuum

Translations

Anagrams

• diuerse, diurese, ureides

Italian

Adjective

residue f pl

1. feminine plural of residuo

Anagrams

• suderei

Latin

Adjective

residue

1. vocative masculine singular of residuus