different between refuse vs residue

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed into late Middle English from Middle French refusé, past participle of refuser (“to refuse”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?f?yo?os, IPA^(key): /???fju?s/

Adjective

refuse (comparative more refuse, superlative most refuse)

1. Discarded, rejected.

Noun

refuse (uncountable)

1. Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.

Synonyms

• discards
• garbage (US)
• rubbish (UK)
• trash (US)
• See also Thesaurus:trash

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French refuser, from Vulgar Latin *refusare, a blend of Classical Latin refut? and recus?.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?fyo?oz?, IPA^(key): /???fju?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Verb

refuse (third-person singular simple present refuses, present participle refusing, simple past and past participle refused)

1. (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).

2. (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
3. (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.

4. (obsolete, transitive) To disown.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• (decline): decline, reject, nill, say no to, turn down, veto, withsake, withsay
• (decline a request or demand): say no, forbear

Translations

Noun

refuse

1. (obsolete) refusal

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Etymology 3

re- +? fuse

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?fyo?oz?, IPA^(key): /?i??fju?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Verb

refuse (third-person singular simple present refuses, present participle refusing, simple past and past participle refused)

1. To melt again.

Related terms

• refusion

French

Verb

refuse

1. inflection of refuser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• férues

Latin

Participle

ref?se

1. vocative masculine singular of ref?sus

References

• refuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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