residuen.
/ˈrɛzᵻdjuː/, /ˈrɛzᵻdʒuː/, U.S. /ˈrɛzəˌd(j)u/ 1. The remainder, the rest; that which is left.† c. in (also for) the residue: for the rest, as to the remainder. Obsolete.† d. The leavings of a destructive agent. Obsolete.
a. Of things.method of residues: see method n. 3e.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun]
bilevena1325
reliefa1382
residuea1382
remanant?a1400
remanence?a1425
remanent?a1425
remainc1430
remainant1430
rest?1440
remainingc1480
remainer1519
remanet?a1527
remainder1560
resident1581
residuum1636
restancy1667
residual1839
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxi. 14 Wheþer haue we eny þing of resydewe [L. residui] in facultese & herytage of þe house of our fader?
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. vii. 92 (MED) My dettis ben quyt..And wiþ þe residue [v.r. resude] & þe remenaunt..I wile worsshipe þerewiþ treuþe.
J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 568 (MED) For that this matere ys obscure..I pase schortly..and now the resydu vp to descriue, I pray yow off pacyens.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope viii After this..the sellar demaunded of the byar the resydue.
a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 60 (MED) Take and boyle efros in pelletes in swete wyne..wast half, and of the residue euery mornyng put a sponefull in thi mouth.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxvii. 231 In grete payne & mysery we must vse the resydew of our lyues.
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) v. 1716 If with moderate fare they were contented They might..save the residue of all their wealth.
1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 252 In the residue of the fifth verse.
1718 Free-thinker No. 7. 2 Nothing farther could be done unless the Residue was forth-coming.
1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett II. 43 If you looked him in the face, or, more properly..in the residue of his face.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 10 A slight repast had therefore been tricked up from the residue of dinner.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 199 Others assume that it is..the residue of the heat which the earth originally possessed.
1934 R. C. Priebsch & W. E. Collinson German Lang. ii. v. 251 A residue of untraced words which have led some scholars..to postulate a non-Indo-European strain in the early vocabulary.
1975 Language 51 561 A considerable residue of cases still remains which must be analysed.
2000 A. Rauch Hieroglyph of Trad. i. 30 They [sc. feelings] are the residue of an experience that cannot be remembered consciously.
b. Of persons.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest > of persons
lavea1000
the other deal1258
remanantc1330
remnanta1375
reliefa1382
residuea1382
remanent1446
remain1483
remaindera1547
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xi. 11 The lord..shal ley to his hond to welde the residue [L. residuum] of his puple.
?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1940) 25589 (MED) Þe resideu..Þat lefte after in your contres..had neuer grace ffor durande tim defende þar place.
1474–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 3rd Roll §32. m. 17 The said Henry Bodrugan..the residue of the same Britons yet kepeth in prisone.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. ZZZiiv On this maner the pore vnlerned fysshers, Petre, Johan, Andrewe, & Iames were taught, and the residewe of that holy couent.
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 21v Both..promist not to faile, Themselves to come, and bid the residue.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 113 The residue of Britans remaining alive, withdrew themselves.
1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 53 Six he slew, And so dismaid the fearful residue, That down the Hill they fled.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 67 The residue of the conquer'd People fled to their Canoes.
1792 R. Burns Let. 10 Sept. (2003) II. 146 An inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!
1836 W. Irving Astoria III. 7 A number of men mounted guard,..while the residue..employed themselves below in dragging up the barges and canoes.
1851 Glasgow Herald 31 Oct. 3/3 There are also causes of attraction to America..for the residue of the Catholic celts of Ireland.
1938 Geogr. Jrnl. 91 226 A large residue of unemployed at present lingers in districts where mining cannot absorb it again.
1953 J. Vernant Refugee in Post-War World p. ix There is still a considerable residue of refugees in Europe left over after the disappearance of the International Refugee Organization.
2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 Mar. 12/4 The few younger members of the Society have a hard time relating to the large residue of older Jesuits.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > as for the rest [phrase]
in (also for) the residue1532
(as) for (also to) the rest1545
au reste1752
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere iii. p. cccxii In all the resydew men were taught by the holy goste.
1548 N. Bodrugan Epitome Title to Souereigntie Scotl. 249 In the residue it was not my mynde to trifle with the fine flowers of Rethorike.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxiv For the residue they committe all that euer they haue vnto the Emperour.
1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue p. lxix In the residue, he entreateth a better aspecte of the Planets, to the end, that either his life may bee inclined to a more happie course, or his death be hastned.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remains > after destructive agency
residue1560
wreck1713
1560 Bible (Geneva) Joel i. 4 The residue [Hebrew yeṯer, L. residuum] of the canker-worm hathe the caterpiller eaten.
1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. i. f. 2v The cankred rottennes, the inflammation of bloude, the canker, and residue of that sort, are of the kinde of effectes besides nature.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Joel i. 4 The residue [L. residuum] of the locust hath the bruke eaten.
2. Law. That which remains of an estate after all charges, debts, and bequests have been paid; †also as a count noun.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > residue of an estate
remainder1394
remnantc1400
residue1411
remainera1450
remainder over1523
remanant1528
particular estate1590
remaindment1629
subtract1641
residuum1663
1411 Will in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 216 (MED) Y be-queþe al þe Resydue of my godys to Jone my wyff.
1454 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 134 (MED) Yf my seide goodes, Residues, and dettis may not suffice ther-to, than y wul that myn Executours..modefye suche thynggis as ys set and lymet afore.
1470 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 186 (MED) The residu I bequeth to myn executours.
1529 Will of Thomas Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 63 The residue of all my goodes, catalles, and debttes not bequethed..I will shalbe sold.
1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 115 He to whom all or the residue is bequeathed, is thereby vnderstood to be made executor.
1641 Office & Dutie Executors 132 The said Christopher Eyre..by his last will and testament..gives to the said Hester his wife all the residue of his estate.
1668 W. Prynne Exact Chronol. Vindic. III. Ep. Ded. sig. av The King and Lords..were to divide the residue of the Intestates goods amongst his Wife and Children if he had any.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 492 Then the residue of the goods shall go to the executor to perform the will of the deceased.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) V. 499 It was still the same residue remaining in the wife, which she had not disposed of before.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 585 Legacy and Residue Duties.
1896 M. W. Goodwin Dolly Madison iii. 43 The residue of the estate was to be divided equally among his five grandchildren.
1934 Yale Law Jrnl. 43 1320 In the event of her death before thirty-five, the principal was to go to her issue, and in default of issue the entire residue was left to a hospital.
1967 E. Rudinger Wills & Probate 9 You could, of course, provide that your residue should be divided..among a number of people.
2007 Cape Times (Nexis) 24 Dec. 3 The late George Strates of Oranjezicht left the residue of his estate to the University of Cape Town.
3. Mathematics.† a. = remainder n. 4a. Obsolete except as in sense 3b.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > division > result of > remainder
remanentc1450
residuec1450
remainer1543
residual1557
remain?a1560
remainder?a1560
rest1608
residue1808
c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 49 Thow shalt fynde the same figures that thow haddest before, And so that nought be the residue; And yf thow have any residue, than with the addicioun þerof that is reseruede with-out in thy table, thow shalt fynde thi first figures.
a1500 (?1397) G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Digby 72) (1872) ii. Suppl. §45. 56 After-ward added I too signes, degreis, Minutes, & Secundis, þe wiche I fond in my rote the ȝere of owre lord 1397; And kepte the residue; & þan had I the mene mote for þe laste day of Decembere.
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. v. f. 145v If the whole be to the whole, as the part taken away is to the part taken away: then shall the residue be vnto the residue, as the whole is to the whole.
1636 J. Mellis Record's Ground of Artes 154 From the last subtract the first, and the residue diuide by a number lesse by 1, then the number of the places.
1684 J. Wallis Treat. Angular Sections ii. 14 If E be put for the Subtense of 30 degrees, and A for that of the Residue to a Semicircumference, or of 150 degrees; then [etc.].
1732 H. Coggeshall Art of Pract. Measuring (ed. 5) i. i. 4 So the Residue is the whole Part of the Product.
1850 C. G. Burnham New Syst. Arithm. 303 If there be a remainder, subtract it from 8, and the residue will show the dominical letter.
b. A number congruent to a given whole number modulo a second whole number (the modulus); a number left as a remainder when the first number is divided by the second.Thus 1 is the residue of 10 (mod 3) because 10 ÷ 3 gives a remainder of 1; it can be expressed as 10 = 1 (mod 3). cubic (also quadratic, etc.) residue: a number left as a remainder when the square, cube, etc., of a whole number is divided by some other whole number. Thus the quadratic residues of 10 are 0 (mod 2), 1 (mod 3), 0 (mod 4), etc., since 102 divided by 2 gives a remainder 0, divided by 3 a remainder 1, divided by 4 a remainder 0, etc.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > division > result of > remainder
remanentc1450
residuec1450
remainer1543
residual1557
remain?a1560
remainder?a1560
rest1608
residue1808
the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > division > result of > remainder > of division of powers
residue1808
1808 Monthly Rev. 55 App. 529 The numbers b and c are called residues, (residus,) b the residue of c, and c the residue of b, to the modulus a.
1857 Q. Jrnl. Pure & Appl. Math. 1 186 (title) Eisenstein's geometrical proof of the fundamental theorem for quadratic residues.
1899 Q. Jrnl. Math. 30 363 The same representation of the coefficients also determines the residue when the coefficient is not a multiple of the modulus.
1963 W. W. R. Ball Math. Recreations & Ess. (ed. 12) ii. 60 There is an arithmetic of residues, closely analogous to the arithmetic of ordinary numbers.
1977 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) July 127/2 The number k is said to be a biquadratic residue of another number m if k is congruent modulo m to the fourth power of an integer.
1991 N. Stephens in C. Bondi New Applic. Math. xi. 254 There are, of course, m different possible remainders when dividing by m. These are the integers 0, 1, 2, …, m − 1, and are called the residues modulo m.
c. The coefficient of (z − a)−1 in the Laurent expansion of a given complex function of a variable z about a point a.
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1855 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 145 173 Cauchy has proved that..the residue of φ(z) is equal to zero.
1893 A. R. Forsyth Theory Functions Complex Variable x. 223 The sum of the residues of a doubly-periodic function relative to a fundamental parallelogram of periods is zero.
1957 T. M. Apostol Math. Anal. xvi. 524 In many cases it is relatively easy to evaluate the residue at a point without the use of integration.
2006 P. Heres & W. Schilders in A. Di Bucchianico et al. Progr. Industr. Math. at ECMI 2004 ii. 143 Once this decomposition is obtained, the transfer function can be written in a pole-residue expansion.
4. That which remains after a process of combustion, evaporation, digestion, etc.; a deposit or sediment; a waste or residual product; = residuum n. 3.low-residue: see the first element.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical processes (general) > that which remains after
residence1555
residue1586
manna1694
sublimate1822
1586 W. Bayley Briefe Treat. Preserv. Eie Sight 20 Let it stand fifteene daies in the sunne, that it may bee well dried, then remoue the glasse softly, that you doe not trouble the residue, or grounds, and so poure it into another vessell.
1660 J. H. tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis i. vii. 98 Cow-dung is a stinking Excrement; but if it be but Elevated or Distilled it gets an Odour of Ambergreece; but the residue of the matter that abides in the bottom, stinks more loathsome then mans Ordure.
1671 G. Thomson Μισοχυμὶας Ἔλεγχου 29 The inquinated matter was disposed to be carried away by abundant [sic] of Sweats, without any residue of any puncticular curdled Inhaesion.
1707 J. Drake Anthropol. Nova I. i. xiv. 162 Those that plead for these Acescent Remains of Chyle thought themselves sufficiently warranted by the Plicæ or Folds of the inner Coat of the Stomach to suppose a residue of some kind or other, and which they..expected shou'd turn Sower.
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. i. xii. 37 The uncrystallizable residue of the alum.
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 357 The liquid being now filtered, boiled, and evaporated to dryness, left a residue, which may be considered as tannin.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 287 The aqueous residue was decanted off a resinous precipitate.
1887 A. M. Brown Treat. Animal Alkaloids ii. ii. 82 The tissue-residue is then retreated with alcohol at 99°; this when evaporated gives a new residue.
1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) xx. 491 The H2S2O8 is hydrolysed to H2O2, which distils off, and the residue, after cooling and dilution, is re-electrolysed.
1962 R. L. Carson Silent Spring (1965) iii. 31 Residues of these chemicals linger in the soil.
2004 P. F. Hamilton Pandora's Star vii. 185 The starship carried tanks. As far as we can tell from the residue, they were filled with water and a type of monocellular algae.
5. Originally: a chemical species produced by the removal of one or more atoms from a molecule; a radical. In later use: a molecule which is incorporated into a larger one without major alteration; (Biochemistry) an amino acid, sugar, or other relatively small molecule incorporated into a polymer such as a protein, carbohydrate, etc.
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the world > matter > chemistry > atomic chemistry > [noun] > atomic groups > types
residue1852
substituent1863
fluorophore1898
bridge1901
luminophore1910
triple1952
1852 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. VII. 76 The compound thus formed by substitution contains therefore the residues [Ger. den Rest] of the two compounds united, that is to say, the first compound + the second, minus an equal number of H- and O-atoms.
1852 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. VII. 77 Oxamide..may be regarded as a compound of the two residues, C4H2O4 and 2NH.
1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 259 Suppose one or more of the component atoms of a fully saturated molecule to be removed: it is clear that the remaining atom or group of atoms will no longer be saturated... Such unsaturated groups are called residues or radicals.
1886 E. F. Smith tr. V. von Richter Chem. Carbon Compounds 30 Ordinarily, radicals are groups containing carbon, while all others, like OH, SH, NH2, NO2, are residues or groups.
1903 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 84 i. 214 The (albumin) molecule may be regarded as made up of 125 groups or residues.
1955 H. R. Downes Chem. Living Cells v. 186 In one sample of lactoglobulin..there were found 20 serine residues, 36 from aspartic acid, and 50 from leucine.
1975 Nature 27 Feb. 694/2 Even the smallest protein (say 50 residues) is extremely complicated.
2000 W. Cabri & R. Di Fabio From Bench to Market vi. 123 The compounds with the acidic residue are up to three orders of magnitude more potent.
6. Sociology. A fundamental impulse which motivates human conduct, and which is not the product of rational deliberation.Chiefly with reference to the theories of Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923).
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > behaviourism > theories of motivation > [noun] > fundamental impulses
residue1923
1923 Econ. Jrnl. 33 586 Pareto..tries to find the fundamental forces, the ‘residues’, of social phenomena or of men's actions.
1935 A. Bongiorno & A. Livingston tr. V. Pareto Mind & Soc. II. vi. 508 It might perhaps be advisable to give word-names to the things we have been calling a, b, and c... Suppose we call the things a, residues [It. residui], the things b, derivations, and the things c, derivatives.
1939 F. Creedy Human Nature writ Large xix. 400 Public documents which have won high praise and wide acceptance..owe their acceptability to the fact that their Residues or fundamental assumptions coincide with those of the crowd.
1966 S. E. Finer V. Pareto: Sociol. Writings 38 Thus, if you strip from the theory its variable part you are left with a residuum. This is the constant element and Pareto therefore calls it a residue.
2005 Contemp. Sociol. 34 p. x/1 Persons who are high in Class I residues are clever, innovative, calculating risk takers.
Compounds
residue class n. [compare German Restklasse (1855 or earlier)] Mathematics the class of all the whole numbers that are congruent to one another modulo a given number.E.g. 2, 5, 8, 11, etc., are members of a residue class modulo 3 because when divided by 3 they all give the same remainder, 2.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > produced in a certain way > other
residue class1904
digital root1917
1904 Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 11 67 The residue classes with respect to an ideal prime in an algebraic field are considered in connection with a linear congruence.
1948 O. Ore Number Theory ix. 214 There are m residue classes (mod m).
1996 J. H. Conway & R. K. Guy Bk. Numbers ii. 30 Modulo 4 the (red, orange, yellow, green) residue classes form columns, or diagonals.
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† residueadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Remaining, surviving.Quot. 1853 may represent residue n. used attributively.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [adjective] > remaining after others of its kind
residuea1382
fossilized1861
survivalist1953
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 1 Chron. vi. 77 To the sonys forsothe of Mereri residue [a1425 L.V. residue sones of Merary; L. filiis autem Merari residuis], of the lond of Zabulon, Remon, and the suburbis of it.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Thess. iv. 14 We that lyuen, that ben residue, or left [L. residui], in the comynge of the Lord.
1433 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) IV. 149 (MED) His fader payed furst iij ml. saluz..and for þe residue ix ml. þe Lordes..leide in þeir seeles.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 29 (MED) The weye may be patente to the residu peple of God.
1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xvii. 27 Mrs. Bretton,..on leaving England, had brought with her such residue furniture of the former St. Ann's Street mansion, as she had thought fit to keep unsold.
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