RESIDUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does residue mean? 

• RESIDUE (noun)
  The noun RESIDUE has 2 senses:

1. matter that remains after something has been removed

2. something left after other parts have been taken away

  Familiarity information: RESIDUE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESIDUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Matter that remains after something has been removed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("residue" is a kind of...):

matter (that which has mass and occupies space)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "residue"):

crackling; greaves (the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered)

ash (the residue that remains when something is burned)

cotton cake; cottonseed cake (the solid matter remaining after oil has been pressed from cottonseeds)

dottle (the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking)

Derivation:

residual; residuary (relating to or indicating a remainder)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Something left after other parts have been taken away

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

balance; remainder; residual; residue; residuum; rest

Context example:

he took what he wanted and I got the balance

Hypernyms ("residue" is a kind of...):

component; component part; constituent; part; portion (something determined in relation to something that includes it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "residue"):

leftover; remnant (a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists)

Derivation:

residual; residuary (relating to or indicating a remainder)

 Context examples 

PBLs are isolated from a melanoma patient and pulsed with a viral vector encoding the TCR specific for amino acid residues 154-162 of gp100 (KTWGQYWQV).

(Autologous Anti-gp100:154-162 T-Cell Receptor Gene-Engineered Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

Despite sequence variation, the domain core maintains a stable surface of contact residues to mediate protein-protein interactions.

(Ankyrin Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)

Carbon dioxide is released when farmers resort to burning as a cheap way to get rid of agricultural residues.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)

The gene codes for a 143-residue protein which is a precursor for a mature protein of 121 amino acids and is 46% homologous with another heparin-binding neurite outgrowth-promoting factor, NEGF1.

(Neurite Growth-Promoting Factor 2, NCI Thesaurus)

Alternatives to the burning of these residues are being studied.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

The sequence of nucleotide residues along an RNA or DNA chain.

(Nucleotide Sequence, NCI Thesaurus)

O-glycans are a class of glycans that modify serine or threonine residues of proteins.

(O-Glycan Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Edward was not entirely without hopes of some favourable change in his mother towards him; and on THAT he rested for the residue of their income.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Auranofin interacts with selenocysteine residue within the redox-active domain of mitochondrial thioredoxin reductase (TrxR), thereby blocking the activity of TrxR.

(Auranofin, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic peptide derived from the tumor suppressor protein p53 with potential use in cancer immunotherapy. p53:264-272 peptide consists of amino acid residues 264 through 272 of the p53 protein.

(p53:264-272 Peptide, NCI Thesaurus)