remaining

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Staying and remaining
abrupt halt
be leftphrase
closeted
halt
hang
hold
non-rotating
non-tenured
outstay
overstay
overwinter
sit
spot
stay in
stay on
stay putidiom
stick
stick around
sticky
stop in
leftover
noun
uk /ˈleftˌəʊ.vər/ us /ˈlefˌt̬oʊ.vɚ/
 leftovers[ plural ]
food remaining after a meal: 剩饭，剩菜
This recipe can serve four easily, and the leftovers are just as good eaten cold.这份食谱足够4人享用，剩下的可作冷食。

leftover | American Dictionary

leftover
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈleftˌoʊ·vər/
that has not been eaten or used during a meal:
leftover meatloaf

leftovers

plural nounus/ˈleftˌoʊ·vərz/
We ate the leftovers cold the next day.

Examples of leftover

leftover
I used to cook lunch but now we are so busy, we just eat yesterday's leftovers.
All the leftovers, packed in disposable containers, are given to the guardians who come to pick up the campers and take them home.
If there were still any leftovers they were collected for analysis.
From this perspective, the majority of common lands should not be regarded as archaic leftovers from the past.
Knowing the monthly income, calculating what will be consumed and its cost, will ensure that food is not wasted, or the leftovers fed to the children or the fowl.
They must also ensure that there is no leftover, that is, no item not belonging to any of the groups.
An alternative explanation is the presence of leftover sediment inbetween the beads after the final wash step.
No leftover custard cakes from any of the parties were available.
The plot is a bit of an urban leftover, an eccentric combination of fragments of subdivided lots, traversed by both sanitary and open storm sewers.
Finally, ellipsis results from the habitual contiguity of two forms; one ultimately drops, and the leftover form stands for the whole string.
The guillotine begins cutting in the top, right-hand corner of the metal sheet, and successive cuts leave the pieces and the leftover material.
When disyllabic footing is no longer possible, the prohibition against degenerate feet determines the status of a leftover syllable.
We will see that disjoint pickup paths can be constructed covering every vertex of the leftover set.
Scaffolds, construction materials, tools and leftover materials frequently blocked the streets.
After the second impulse loading, therefore, the system can restart its free oscillation due to the leftover displacement (deflection) term.
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