Remnant
noun
A small remaining quantity of something.
Only a few remnants of the original forest remain.
Often appears as...
- remnants of the past
- remnant of clothing
noun
A piece of fabric or carpeting left when the greater part has been used or sold.
She found a remnant of fabric to use for her sewing project.
Often appears as...
- fabric remnant
- carpet remnant
noun
An often small part that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used.
A remnant of the city's past glory is visible in the old buildings.
Often appears as...
- remnant of glory
- remnant of meal
noun
A small remaining quantity of something.
Only a few remnants of the original forest remain.
Often appears as...
- remnants of the past
- remnant of clothing
noun
A piece of fabric or carpeting left when the greater part has been used or sold.
She found a remnant of fabric to use for her sewing project.
Often appears as...
- fabric remnant
- carpet remnant
noun
An often small part that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used.
A remnant of the city's past glory is visible in the old buildings.
Often appears as...
- remnant of glory
- remnant of meal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Diminished Presence
Use 'remnant' to emphasize a significant reduction of something that was once greater.
The castle was now just a remnant of its former majesty.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Physical
While it can be abstract, 'remnant' usually describes something tangible you can observe.
Tiny remnants of the meteor were found scattered across the field.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive or Negative
'Remnant' is neutral; context determines if it's positive (survival) or negative (decay).
After the party, only remnants of the delicious cake were left.
Pro Tip 1/3Diminished Presence
Use 'remnant' to emphasize a significant reduction of something that was once greater.
The castle was now just a remnant of its former majesty.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Physical
While it can be abstract, 'remnant' usually describes something tangible you can observe.
Tiny remnants of the meteor were found scattered across the field.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive or Negative
'Remnant' is neutral; context determines if it's positive (survival) or negative (decay).
After the party, only remnants of the delicious cake were left.
Pro Tip 1/3Diminished Presence
Use 'remnant' to emphasize a significant reduction of something that was once greater.
The castle was now just a remnant of its former majesty.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Physical
While it can be abstract, 'remnant' usually describes something tangible you can observe.
Tiny remnants of the meteor were found scattered across the field.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive or Negative
'Remnant' is neutral; context determines if it's positive (survival) or negative (decay).
After the party, only remnants of the delicious cake were left.
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Andrea Ghez: The hunt...
An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star's life. So, if a star starts its life off with much more mass than the mass of the Sun, it's going to end its life by exploding and leaving behind these beautiful supernova remnants that we see here. And inside that supernova remnant
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How did feathers evolve?...
paleontologists started digging up some compelling support for that dinosaurs with bits of feathers still preserved on their bodies. Since then, scientists have found dozens of species of dinosaurs with remnants of feathers. Some were as small as pigeons, and some were the size of a school bus.
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Best Of Attenborough And...
ancient forest still remain these strange beautiful trees bear babs are fire resistant and too big to cut down so in many places they are the only remnants left of the original forest that once covered this land it would have been difficult for a creature the
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String theory and the...
for the consequences of those hidden structures, we can look for how those things show up in physics that we can get access to. So, that's why we study things like dark matter, black holes, dark energy, and we also look at remnants of the early universe,
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Why do we hiccup? - John...
Do such structures serve some hidden function that hasn't yet been discovered? Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as vestigial remnants? One idea is that hiccups began
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Nathalie Cabrol: How...
It shows the remnants of a delta, and this picture tells us water was abundant and stayed founting at the surface for a very long time. This is good news for life. Life chemistry takes a long time to actually happen. So this is extremely good news,
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
leaving remnants like that. On a still bigger scale, we see entire galaxies of stars. We see entire ecosystems where gas is being recycled. And to the cosmologist, these galaxies are just the atoms, as it were, of the large-scale universe.
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The sort of light your...
eyes for seeing the full spectrum we see amazing things we see stars planets galaxies broadcasting to us in radio and these aren't alien signals they're just part of the universe doing its thing and we see the splattered remnants of dead
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What would happen if...
The chemical composition of our bronze sculptures keeps them recognizable for over 10 million. And buried deep underground, the remnants of cities built on floodplains have been preserved in time as a kind of technofossil.
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Stars 101 PIPE National...
collapse into themselves and create a bottomless well of gravity, a black hole. But from the remnants of stars, heavier elements are cast into the universe and it is this star dust
Video examples
Andrea Ghez: The hunt...
An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star's life. So, if a star starts its life off with much more mass than the mass of the Sun, it's going to end its life by exploding and leaving behind these beautiful supernova remnants that we see here. And inside that supernova remnant
Video examples
How did feathers evolve?...
paleontologists started digging up some compelling support for that dinosaurs with bits of feathers still preserved on their bodies. Since then, scientists have found dozens of species of dinosaurs with remnants of feathers. Some were as small as pigeons, and some were the size of a school bus.
Video examples
Best Of Attenborough And...
ancient forest still remain these strange beautiful trees bear babs are fire resistant and too big to cut down so in many places they are the only remnants left of the original forest that once covered this land it would have been difficult for a creature the
Video examples
String theory and the...
for the consequences of those hidden structures, we can look for how those things show up in physics that we can get access to. So, that's why we study things like dark matter, black holes, dark energy, and we also look at remnants of the early universe,
Video examples
Why do we hiccup? - John...
Do such structures serve some hidden function that hasn't yet been discovered? Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as vestigial remnants? One idea is that hiccups began
Video examples
Nathalie Cabrol: How...
It shows the remnants of a delta, and this picture tells us water was abundant and stayed founting at the surface for a very long time. This is good news for life. Life chemistry takes a long time to actually happen. So this is extremely good news,
Video examples
Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
leaving remnants like that. On a still bigger scale, we see entire galaxies of stars. We see entire ecosystems where gas is being recycled. And to the cosmologist, these galaxies are just the atoms, as it were, of the large-scale universe.
Video examples
The sort of light your...
eyes for seeing the full spectrum we see amazing things we see stars planets galaxies broadcasting to us in radio and these aren't alien signals they're just part of the universe doing its thing and we see the splattered remnants of dead
Video examples
What would happen if...
The chemical composition of our bronze sculptures keeps them recognizable for over 10 million. And buried deep underground, the remnants of cities built on floodplains have been preserved in time as a kind of technofossil.
Video examples
Stars 101 PIPE National...
collapse into themselves and create a bottomless well of gravity, a black hole. But from the remnants of stars, heavier elements are cast into the universe and it is this star dust
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Quote examples
Drew Barrymore
American Actress
I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
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Ban Ki-moon
South Korean Leader
Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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John Abizaid
American Soldier
Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.
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George Packer
American Novelist
All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places.
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Charles Mackay
British Poet
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
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Indya Moore
American Actor
As a person of color, I feel like I'm socialized to feel like a remnant of poverty or something primitive, and I don't feel like that at all. I can be myself and be me.
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Critic
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
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Peter Ackroyd
British Author
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
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Hamid Karzai
Statesman
The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
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Drew Barrymore
American Actress
I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.
Quote examples
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
Quote examples
Ban Ki-moon
South Korean Leader
Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
Quote examples
John Abizaid
American Soldier
Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.
Quote examples
George Packer
American Novelist
All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places.
Quote examples
Charles Mackay
British Poet
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
Quote examples
Indya Moore
American Actor
As a person of color, I feel like I'm socialized to feel like a remnant of poverty or something primitive, and I don't feel like that at all. I can be myself and be me.
Quote examples
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Critic
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
Quote examples
Peter Ackroyd
British Author
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
Quote examples
Hamid Karzai
Statesman
The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
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