different between remains vs dregs

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???me?nz/
• Rhymes: -e?nz
• Hyphenation: re?mains

Noun

remains pl (plural only)

1. What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.

   The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.

2. Historical or archaeological relics.
4. The extant writings of a deceased person.

5. All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.

Translations

Noun

remains

1. (rare) plural of remain

Verb

remains

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of remain

   We'll go ahead, while she remains here.

Anagrams

• Amrines, Erisman, Mainers, Marines, Merinas, Minears, Reimans, Reisman, Riemans, mainers, maresin, marines, seminar, sirname

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.