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Remaining

adjective

1.

Not used up. Synonyms: left, left over, leftover, odd, unexpended. "She had a little money left over so she went to a movie" , "Some odd dollars left" , "Saved the remaining sandwiches for supper" , "Unexpended provisions"

Remain

verb

(past & past part. remained; pres. part. remaining)

1.

Stay the same; remain in a certain state. Synonyms: rest, stay. "Rest assured" , "Stay alone" , "He remained unmoved by her tears" , "The bad weather continued for another week"

2.

Continue in a place, position, or situation. Synonyms: continue, stay, stay on. "Stay with me, please" , "Despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year" , "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"

3.

Be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.. "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"

4.

Stay behind. Synonyms: persist, stay. "The hostility remained long after they made up"

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"Remaining" Quotes from Famous Books

... not see just then, for the knob would not turn, the lock remaining fast. I knew that I had made no mistake about the combination. Some of the tumblers in the lock had failed to fall. I tried it over again several times and thumped the dial and the door, but it was of no use. The lock remained stubborn. One might have said that its memory was not as good ...

— Equality • Edward Bellamy

... Plougastel is lucky in being across the frontier at such a time. Had I not been fool enough to trust those who to-day have proved themselves utterly unworthy of trust, that is where I should be myself. My remaining in Paris is the crowning folly of a life full of follies and mistakes. That I should come to you in my hour of most urgent need adds point to it." He laughed ...

— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

... appending ridge flows off the looping ridge smoothly in such a way that it forms a bifurcation and not an abutment of two ridges at a right angle, the recurve is considered as remaining intact. The test is to trace the looping ridge toward the appendage, and if, when it is reached, the tracing may be continued as readily upon the appendage as upon the looping ridge, with no sudden, sharp change of direction, the recurve is sufficient. Figures ...

— The Science of Fingerprints - Classification and Uses • Federal Bureau of Investigation

... reformation, to retain protection and liberty for all their knavery, although this oath is demanded, forced and taken contrary to God and the law, and by it the doors are locked against the Holy Spirit, Who should rule the councils.[44] But this would be the best, and also the only remedy remaining, if kings, princes, nobility, cities and communities themselves began and opened a way for reformation, so that the bishops and clergy, who now are afraid, would have reason to follow. For here nothing else shall and must be considered except God's first ...

— Works of Martin Luther - With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) • Martin Luther

... Here was I, remaining long, with a little curiosity; because some people told me plainly that I must be damned for ever by a Papist funeral; and here came Lorna, scarcely breathing through the thick of stuff around her, yet with all her little breath steaming on the air, ...

— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore

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