remain
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English remainen, from Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir, from Latin remaneō, maneō, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay”).
Displaced native Middle English beliven, bliven (“to remain”) (from Old English belīfan (“to remain, stay”)) due to confluence with related Middle English beleven (“to leave behind”), with which it merged. More at beleave and belive.
Inflected forms:
form: remains
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: remains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: remaining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: remained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: remained
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: remain
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: remain
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: remained
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: remain
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: remainest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: remained
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: remainedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: remains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: remaineth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: remained
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: remain
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: remained
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: remain
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: remained
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: remain
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: remaining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: remained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: That which is left; relic; remainder.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.
pos: noun
gloss: State of remaining; stay.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.
pos: verb
examples: After three rounds of interviews, only 5 candidates remained.
I like to make more than enough food if I have people round for dinner, so I can eat my way through what remains in the following days.
Gather up the fragments that remain.
SEM of the apopyles with apopylar cells and choanocyte chamber remaining on the wound surface.
gloss: To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
pos: verb
examples: If you divide 20 apples between three people, each gets six and two remain.
gloss: To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
pos: verb
examples: Promise me you will always remain my good little girl.
Remain a widow at thy father's house.
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That […] remains to be proved.
We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
gloss: To await; to be left to.
pos: verb
gloss: To continue in a state of being.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
examples: There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry.
The light remained red for two full minutes.
Synonyms: stay
tarry
last
stand
bide
wait
belave
abide
beleave
belive
continue
dwell
keep
remain
Antonyms: leave
be removed
be taken
Related words: remainder
Derived words: Bremain
Bremoaner
remainee
remainer
Remainer
Remainiac
remain to be seen
right to remain silent
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