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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
remain
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be left/remain undisturbed
▪ The land is to be left undisturbed as a nature reserve.
go/remain undetected
▪ Doctors can make mistakes and diseases can remain undetected.
hold/remain steady
▪ A recent poll showed his approval rating holding steady at 53 percent.
human remains (=the body of someone who has died)
▪ The police found human remains in the basement.
keep/remain active
▪ We try to keep the patients active by taking them for a daily walk.
lie/remain dormant
▪ The seeds remain dormant until the spring.
questions remain unanswered
▪ Many other questions remain unanswered.
remain a mystery
▪ What caused the accident remains a mystery.
remain anonymous
▪ According to one employee, who wishes to remain anonymous, the company engaged in illegal activities.
remain committed
▪ The government remained committed to the treaty.
remain crucial
▪ Logging remains crucial to the country’s economy.
remain friends
▪ We have all remained friends despite some difficult times.
remain in custody
▪ The judge ruled that Marsh should remain in custody until his sentence.
remain obscure
▪ The details of his life remain obscure.
Remain seated
▪ Remain seated until the aircraft has come to a complete stop.
remain unaware
▪ Most people remained largely unaware of the change to the law.
remain vigilant
▪ Please remain vigilant at all times and report anything suspicious.
remained adamant
▪ She begged me to change my mind, but I remained adamant.
remained faithful
▪ He remained faithful to his principles to the last.
remained intact
▪ Only the medieval tower had remained intact.
remained loyal
▪ The army has remained loyal to the government.
remained steadfast
▪ Dr. Faraday remained steadfast in his plea of innocence.
remained unfulfilled
▪ His dream of competing in the Olympics remained unfulfilled.
remained...unaffected
▪ The north remained largely unaffected by the drought.
remains unknown
▪ The murderer’s identity remains unknown.
remain/stand aloof (from sth)
▪ Initially, the President remained aloof from the campaign.
remain/stay aloof (from sb)
▪ They worked hard, but tended to stay aloof from the local inhabitants.
remain/stay at a level
▪ The fees are likely to remain at current levels.
remain/stay/keep calm
▪ I tried to stay calm and just ignore him.
remain/stay/keep silent
▪ She kept silent, forcing Buchanan to continue.
remain/stay/stick in your memory (=be remembered for a long time)
▪ That day will remain in my memory forever.
skeletal remains
▪ Police discovered the skeletal remains of a corpse buried near the river.
stand/stay/remain etc on the sidelines
▪ You can’t stay on the sidelines for ever; it’s time you got involved.
stay/keep/remain awake
▪ I was tired and it was hard to stay awake.
stay/remain/keep solvent
▪ I don’t know how we managed to remain solvent.
sth remains a possibility
▪ War remains a possibility.
tension is/remains high
▪ After the election, political tension remains high.
the remaining ingredients (=the ingredients that are added later when you are preparing a dish)
▪ Add all of the remaining ingredients and mix well.
the sole surviving/remaining member/child etc
▪ His sole surviving child, Mary, succeeded to the throne at the age of one week.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
largely
▪ This comparison is possible because the list size remained largely unchanged over the two year study.
▪ The army, on the other hand, has remained largely neutral in the unprecedented fight to force democratic reform from Milosevic.
▪ However, as no votes have been recorded at these junctures the arithmetic straitjacket has remained largely hidden.
▪ But as an institution, Congress remains largely detached from foreign affairs.
▪ The mortality has remained largely unchanged over the decades despite greater public awareness and better diagnostic facilities.
▪ Derrick Smith, remains largely unknown even on this Marine Corps base where he is stationed.
▪ It is important to bear in mind that these financial consequences have, until very recently, remained largely hidden.
▪ Piazza Duomo suffered terribly, although the cathedral itself remained largely intact.
still
▪ Nevertheless, even allowing for all the frailties of palaeontologists, there still remains a remarkable picture of palaeontological persistence.
▪ Remnants of the letter still remain on the mountain, which juts from Mission Trails Regional Park.
▪ Giving priority to developmental work was appropriate in the circumstances of Nottinghamshire in the mid-eighties and still remains so in many respects.
▪ However, minorities still remain underrepresented among physicians, they wrote.
▪ There still remains the problem of cause and effect.
▪ The focus still remains to be made real.
▪ I detect that some doubts still remain.
there
▪ He remained there for the start of the 1985-86 campaign, but returned to Arsenal to make 27 first-team appearances.
▪ Edwin was the only one in the family who felt at home in Los Angeles and remained there.
▪ Even so there remain causes for concern in the Labour camp.
▪ However, he feels he is required to remain there because he can not live on his own without a car.
▪ The Conservative party was returned to office in 1951 and was to remain there until 1964.
▪ There remains one further complication, greater than all the rest.
▪ And yet there remains the fact, noted at the outset, that the Act applies to violence and violent threats in private.
▪ They remained there until they retired to Florida in 1973.
■ NOUN
fact
▪ The fact remains that because of election by constituency quota the odds are heavily against fair representation for a small party.
▪ But the fact remains that Bush's gains are ill-gotten.
▪ Still, the fact remains that Tolkien did produce a narrative of entrelacement.
▪ For the fact remains that none of this is possible.
▪ The fact remains that any legal regime which lowers the economic incentive for drugs-crime will surely boost drug consumption.
▪ The fact remains, Snapple has foundered.
▪ The fact remains that Hera turned Callisto into a bear.
mystery
▪ How much Crédit Lyonnais is owed by Pathe remains a mystery.
▪ The culprits remained a mystery yesterday.
▪ The extent to which Burn, or before him Salvin, was responsible for these remains an unresolved mystery.
▪ It remains a mystery whether Yeltsin knew about it and was deliberately obfuscating.
▪ That remains a mystery to him.
▪ But the vehemence of their hatred remains something of a mystery.
▪ But the president remains a mystery.
▪ And yet his emotional life remains a mystery to him.
question
▪ But even if the proposals prove sufficiently acceptable, important questions of principle will remain unresolved.
▪ The question then remains: why did the Aristarchian system fail?
▪ The question remains: What do we put in its place?
▪ Instead of asking questions, people remain silent.
▪ A question which remained obstinately hovering in her mind as she slowly slipped into a deep sleep.
▪ And the big question remains: Why these specific novels?
▪ Having discarded as inadequate our orthodox rationalisations for meat's culinary centrality, the question remained: why is it so important?
▪ Who he was, where he had come from, why he was there-all these questions remained unanswered.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's mortal remains
the fact remains
▪ I know Benson has a Ph.D., but the fact remains that he has no practical experience.
▪ The fact remains that without raising taxes we won't be able to pay for any of these programs.
▪ But the fact remains that the safeguards themselves do not prevent the government using civil plutonium for defence purposes.
▪ But the fact remains that we are limited to inferring what the experiences of other brains are like from our own case.
▪ But the fact remains that Wolf and the tendency Wolf represented made an inward-looking discipline possible and, ultimately, respectable.
▪ But the fact remains: Corn is an inherent ingredient in our traditional larder.
▪ But, the fact remains that they are.
▪ Nevertheless, the fact remains that the extent to which they are genuinely accountable locally is entirely within their own discretion.
▪ None the less the fact remains that the presence of descent groups tells us nothing directly about domestic organization.
▪ Still, the fact remains that Tolkien did produce a narrative of entrelacement.
there is/exists/remains etc
▪ Alas, there is no space to give a proper account of the thoughts of these great minds.
▪ Capital market theory implies that, for index futures, there is a risk premium.
▪ Each side then loses something if there is an attempt to meet at a mid-point.
▪ If you do manage to get him to go, there is drug treatment that could help.
▪ In forecasting the future there is no certainty.
▪ On one of them, Longstone Island, there is a lighthouse.
▪ This is a great loss, because at root there is an integral relation between the ideas of crime and morality.
▪ We have also noted that there is in practice little inter-observer variation in the scoring of verbal responses in these patients.
who shall remain nameless
▪ My Lover For I will consider my lover, who shall remain nameless.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A few problems remain to be discussed.
▪ Byrd is likely to lose what remains of his fortune.
▪ He's decided to remain in his present job for the time being.
▪ He had finished, but he remained at the microphone for a few minutes, gazing at the audience.
▪ He was determined to remain out west until he had made his fortune.
▪ Her unhappy face remained with me throughout the rest of my journey.
▪ His doctors say this his condition remains the same.
▪ Not much remained of the house after the fire.
▪ Sean remained close to his kids after the divorce.
▪ She remained calm and waited till he had finished shouting at her.
▪ Sir Rocco Forte will remain as chief executive of the UK hotels company.
▪ Some 2,000 students, lecturers and university workers remained inside, refusing to leave.
▪ Some elements of the old class system still remain.
▪ The children will remain with their mother.
▪ The computers remained in their boxes until enough money was found to buy the software needed to operate them.
▪ The details of his death remain a closely guarded secret.
▪ The judge ruled that Borkin should remain in jail until his case is heard.
▪ The others were dismissed, but Harwood was asked to remain behind.
▪ The picture remained with the artist's family for a number of years.
▪ Two men remain in captivity.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He later became the station's news director, but remained on the air in various capacities.
▪ My right leg remained shorter than my left by about half an inch.
▪ She remained standing, evidently not very sure how to begin.
▪ Therefore she must be prepared to remain single, and accept the social consequences of her decision.
▪ When he was promoted to deputy chairman of the Plastics Division in 1966 he remained in charge of the film group.
▪ While an authority's management style is usually affected by environmental factors there always remains an element of choice.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remain

Remain \Re*main"\ (r?-m?n"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Remained (-m?nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Remaining.] [OF. remaindre, remanoir, L. remanere; pref. re- re- + manere to stay, remain. See Mansion, and cf. Remainder, Remnant.]

  1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

    Gather up the fragments that remain.
    --John vi. 1

  2. Of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. --1 Cor. xv. 6. That . . . remains to be proved. --Locke. 2. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. Remain a widow at thy father's house. --Gen. xxxviii. 1

    1. Childless thou art; childless remain.
      --Milton.

      Syn: To continue; stay; wait; tarry; rest; sojourn; dwell; abide; last; endure.

Remain

Remain \Re*main"\ n.

  1. State of remaining; stay. [Obs.]

    Which often, since my here remain in England, I 've seen him do.
    --Shak.

  2. That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural. ``The remains of old Rome.''
    --Addison.

    When this remain of horror has entirely subsided.
    --Burke.

  3. Specif., in the plural:

    1. That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.

      Old warriors whose adored remains In weeping vaults her hallowed earth contains!
      --Pope.

    2. The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's Remains.

Remain

Remain \Re*main"\, v. t. To await; to be left to. [Archaic]

The easier conquest now remains thee.
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
remain

early 15c., from Anglo-French remayn-, Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir "stay, dwell, remain; be left; hold out," from Latin remanere "to remain, to stay behind; be left behind; endure, abide, last" (source also of Spanish remaner, Italian rimanere), from re- "back" (see re-) + manere "to stay, remain" (see mansion). Related: Remained; remaining.

remain

"those left over or surviving," mid-15c., from Middle French remain, back-formation from Old French remanoir, remaindre, or else formed in Middle English from remain (v.). But the more usual noun in English has been remainder except in remains, euphemism for "corpse," attested from c.1700, from mortal remains.

Wiktionary
remain

n. 1 State of remaining; stay. 2 That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural. 3 (context plural only English) '''remains''': That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. 4 The posthumous works or productions, especially literary works of one who is dead. vb. 1 To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised. 2 To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

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WordNet
remain

  1. v. stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" [syn: stay, rest] [ant: change]

  2. continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" [syn: stay, stay on, continue]

  3. be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.; "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"

  4. stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" [syn: persist, stay]

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Wikipedia
Remain (José González song)

Remain EP is an EP by José González, released in early 2004. All songs were written by José González, except " Love Will Tear Us Apart", which was written by Joy Division.

Remain

Remain may refer to:

  • "Remain" (José González song)
  • Remain, book by Jennifer Murphy poetry 2005
  • Remain, album by Tyrone Wells 2009
  • Remain, album by Great Divide 2002
  • "Remain", song by Kubb 2005
  • "Remain", song by Upside Down

Usage examples of "remain".

But the fateful decisions secretly made, the intrigues, the treachery, the motives and the aberrations which led up to them, the parts played by the principal actors behind the scenes, the extent of the terror they exercised and their technique of organizing it - all this and much more remained largely hidden from us until the secret German papers turned up.

Those who remained, many of them, were bitten by the Nazi aberrations and attempted to apply them to pure science.

And now I am a recreant, and he who aided and abetted me in my asseverations of independence remains faithful.

On this occasion it was unlocked, and Marian was about to rush forward in eager anticipation of a peep at its interior, when, child as she was, the reflection struck her that she would stand abetter chance of carrying her point by remaining perdue.

Those that remained were vacuum ablating, their edges fraying like worn cloth, while their flat surfaces slowly dissolved, reducing their overall thickness.

Aspinwall remained where he was, studying closely the Hindoo who confronted him with abnormally impassive face.

Malink remained chief for many years, and when he became too old to carry the responsibilitysince he had no sonshe appointed Abo his successor.

To her all the wreckage of the slums, all the woe lying beneath gilded life, all the abominations, all the tortures that remain unknown, were carried.

On the 17th of April the Essex came in sight of Chatham Island, one of the largest, and remained cruising in the neighborhood of the group till the beginning of June, when want of water compelled her to go to Tumbez, a port on the continent just abreast of the Galapagos.

It was not until adult life that from an abscess of the groin was expelled what remained of the spelling-book that had been driven into the abdomen during boyhood.

Very few fruits these days are allowed to remain attached to their mother plant until abscission occurs.

He was arrested, charged with attempting to abscond and sent back to Wayland, where he remained until he had completed his sentence.

Why has the Primal not remained self-gathered so that there be none of this profusion of the manifold which we observe in existence and yet are compelled to trace to that absolute unity?

Unless I set my will, unless I absolve myself from the rhythm of life, fix myself and remain static, cut off from living, absolved within my own will.

Whenever the leaves remain inflected during several days over seeds, it is clear that they absorb some matter from them.