English Dictionary

REMAINING

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

IPA (US): 

 Dictionary entry overview: What does remaining mean? 

REMAINING (adjective)
  The adjective REMAINING has 1 sense:

1. not used upplay

  Familiarity information: REMAINING used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REMAINING (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not used up

Synonyms:

left; left over; leftover; odd; remaining; unexpended

Context example:

unexpended provisions

Similar:

unexhausted (not used up completely)


 Context examples 


The remaining 14 were unable to perceive images, but their eyes could detect some light, even if they were not aware of it.

(How Light Boosts Migraine Pain, NIH, US)

I struggled vainly for firmness sufficient to answer him, but the effort destroyed all my remaining strength; I sank on the chair and sobbed aloud.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There are many remaining questions about black holes that the coordinated NASA observations may help answer.

(Black Hole Image Makes History, NASA)

Be it known then, that Sir Walter, like a good father, (having met with one or two private disappointments in very unreasonable applications), prided himself on remaining single for his dear daughters' sake.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Or does it stream in along thin dense filaments, remaining relatively cold?

(Spiraling filaments feed young galaxies, National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences.)

It astonished her that Tom's sisters could be satisfied with remaining in London at such a time, through an illness which had now, under different degrees of danger, lasted several weeks.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It involves the resection of the central hepatic segment with the left and right segments remaining intact.

(Central Hepatectomy, NCI Thesaurus)

The results demonstrate that up to 26 percent of the nitrogen in ecosystems is sourced from rocks, with the remaining amount from the atmosphere.

(New source of global nitrogen discovered: Earth’s bedrock, National Science Foundation)

The therapy is an attempt to shore up the health of remaining photoreceptors by replacing dying RPE with iPSC-derived RPE.

(Researchers rescue photoreceptors, prevent blindness in animal models of retinal degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

The remaining children followed their normal diet.

(Fish-Rich Diet Beneficial for Children with Asthma, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)



 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched." (English proverb)

"Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand." (Native American proverb, Lakota)

"Dissent and you will be known." (Arabic proverb)

"Without suffering, there is no learning." (Croatian proverb)



ALSO IN ENGLISH DICTIONARY:


© 2000-2023 AudioEnglish.org | AudioEnglish® is a Registered Trademark | Terms of use and privacy policy
Contact