remnantとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English, contraction of remenant, from Anglo-Norman remanant, present participle of remaindre, from Latin remaneō.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛmnənt/
  • ハイフネーション: rem‧nant

名詞

remnant (複数形 remnants)

1. The small portion remaining of a larger thing or group.
2. The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.

   Usually not enough to make an entire project by itself, remnants of several fabrics can be used to make quilts.

3. An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

同意語

• (small remaining portion): relic, residue, remainder, lave; See also Thesaurus:remainder
• (unsold end of piece goods): remains

派生語

• nova remnant
• remnantal
• supernova remnant

関連する語

• remain
• remanent

形容詞

remnant (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Still left; remaining.
   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Lewis the Ninth Setteth Forward against the Turks; the Occasion of His Journey, and His Attendants”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], OCLC 913016526, book IV, page 187:

     [H]is vow was made in his ſickneſſe, whileſt reaſon was ſcarce as yet in the peaceable poſſeſſion of his mind, becauſe of the remnant dregs of his diſeaſe: […]

   • 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], OCLC 5634253, book II (Pleasure), page 461:

     It bid Her feel / No future Pain for Me; but inſtant wed / A Lover more proportion'd to her Bed; / And quiet dedicate her remnant Life / To the juſt duties of an humble Wife.