different between dregs vs remainder

English

Etymology

See dreg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???z/
• Rhymes: -??z

Noun

dregs pl (plural only)

1. (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
2. (figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.

   the dregs of society

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 9

     Yet even now I had not drunk the bitter potion to the dregs; I was not yet persuaded of my loss; I did not yet feel in every pulsation, in every nerve, in every thought, that I remained alone of my race - that I was The Last Man.

Usage notes

• The singular form dreg is far less common, but the phrase to the last dreg still has currency.

Synonyms

• debris, deposit, draff, dross, exuviate, feculence, grounds, grouts, lees, loser, orts, outcast, rabble, refuse, residue, residuum, riffraff, rubbish, scum, sediment, settling, trash, trub

Translations

Anagrams

• regds.

English

Alternative forms

• remainer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English remaindre, remeigner, from Anglo-Norman remaindre, with infinitive used as noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???me?nd?/, /???me?nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???me?nd?/
• Rhymes: -e?nd?(?)

Noun

remainder (plural remainders)

1. A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.

   My son ate part of his cake and I ate the remainder.

   You can have the remainder of my clothes.
2. (mathematics) The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If n (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then n can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotient) and r (remainder) are also integers and 0 ? r < d.

   17 leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3.

   11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1.

3. (mathematics) The number left over after a simple subtraction

   10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6

5. (commerce) Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.

   I got a really good price on this shirt because it was a remainder.

6. (law) An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined

Synonyms

• (a part or parts remaining): remnant, residue, rest, lave; See also Thesaurus:remainder
• surplus

Antonyms

• (a part or parts remaining): dearth, deficiency, deficit, shortage, undersupply

Derived terms

• R (mathematics)
• remainderman
• contingent remainder

See also

• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
• modulus

Translations

See also

• remainderman

Adjective

remainder (not comparable)

1. Remaining.

Synonyms

• leftover

Translations

Verb

remainder (third-person singular simple present remainders, present participle remaindering, simple past and past participle remaindered)

1. (transitive, commerce) To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.

   The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer.

Translations

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English remainder.

Noun

remainder m (invariable)

1. A remainder, (book) sold at reduced price