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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
remains
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
human remains (=the body of someone who has died)
▪ The police found human remains in the basement.
remains unknown
▪ The murderer’s identity remains unknown.
skeletal remains
▪ Police discovered the skeletal remains of a corpse buried near the river.
sth remains a possibility
▪ War remains a possibility.
tension is/remains high
▪ After the election, political tension remains high.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
archaeological
▪ Patterns made in fields by the tracks of heavy machinery also frequently resemble patterns associated with archaeological remains.
▪ The objective is to provide facilities for the investigation and recording of archaeological remains prior to development.
human
▪ This facial reconstruction is used by police when they're trying to identify human remains.
▪ Piece of blue polythene sheeting used to carry coals also discovered close to scene of fire where human remains found.
▪ So long as the human species remains at once sentient and vulnerable, fear will influence thoughts and actions.
▪ The human remains that would be discovered over the next fifty years brought the death toll to nearly five hundred.
▪ This has led to controversy, particularly as regards the date of fossil human remains from California.
▪ Searchers on Friday recovered human remains among the wreckage.
organic
▪ Copper can favor the preservation of organic remains, perhaps by preventing the activity of destructive micro-organisms.
▪ Climate plays an important role too in the preservation of organic remains.
▪ But there are no organic remains of any kind.
▪ All over the world, rocks of this antiquity were carefully searched for organic remains.
skeletal
▪ Occasionally the silica-rich skeletal remains of single-celled marine organisms, diatoms, and of sponges occur in pottery.
▪ In shallow marine sediments from anywhere on the present Earth one might expect to find the skeletal remains and teeth of sharks.
▪ Her skeletal remains were found then.
▪ Excavators have found skeletal and cremated remains in some megalithic structures, but by no means all.
▪ The handprints on the walls match the size of hands from skeletal remains of Paleolithic women.
▪ The remains, however, appear to be little more than hair and fragments of flesh covering ghastly skeletal remains.
■ NOUN
fact
▪ Only one certain fact remains with her.
▪ Can't explain. Fact remains, they do.
question
▪ The question remains, however, one of translating local performance into national success.
▪ The question remains in both legends equally, nevertheless, as to where virtue ends and vice begins in such pious adventures.
▪ The broader and more difficult question remains.
▪ Which is not the same thing as saying they don't exist: the question remains open.
■ VERB
contain
▪ Many birds of prey regurgitate pellets which contain the indigestible remains of their prey, including much of the bone.
▪ A plastic bag containing some of his remains was found two weeks later at Reigate.
▪ Three dates with ages of between 98,000 years and 105,000 years were obtained for strata containing Neanderthal remains at Tabun.
▪ Usually each pellet contains the remains of only one individual.
discover
▪ The man's body was discovered among the remains of a burnt out cottage.
▪ Other relics have been discovered, like the remains of a possible Saxon building.
▪ Yet further down he discovered the remains of a Neolithic hut.
find
▪ Archaeologists claimed to have found the remains of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, where Hamlet was given its first performance.
▪ In shallow marine sediments from anywhere on the present Earth one might expect to find the skeletal remains and teeth of sharks.
▪ But an examination of the wreck by remote-controlled cameras failed to find any human remains or personal effects.
▪ Excavators have found skeletal and cremated remains in some megalithic structures, but by no means all.
▪ Here he found remains of structures for rendering blubber into whale oil.
▪ In the wall, he found the remains of a cat who had been missing for more than a year.
▪ Firemen found the charred remains of the two sisters as they sifted through the debris.
▪ Here are found his remains, arranged in a simulated figure that is covered by an Augustinian habit.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it remains to be seen
▪ "What is your next film going to be about?'' "Well, that remains to be seen.''
▪ It remains to be seen how many senior citizens will actually benefit from this new plan.
▪ What remains to be seen now is whether it is too late to save the rainforests.
▪ Whether the team can sustain its winning streak remains to be seen.
▪ And it remains to be seen if re- signing Greg Vaughn will be a hit or a miss.
▪ But it remains to be seen whether that will prove a significant omission.
▪ But it remains to be seen whether this will exacerbate chronic unemployment or solve it.
▪ Steel will make it remains to be seen.
▪ The meaning of prevention in the new Children Act is multifaceted and it remains to be seen how it will be operationalized.
▪ Today it remains to be seen whether Museveni's essentially centralist approach will be more successful than its predecessors.
▪ Whether I reach it remains to be seen!
▪ Yet it remains to be seen how strong are the forces of Euro-scepticism in Labour's own ranks.
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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A special chapel was built to house Spencer's remains.
▪ The architect's remains are interred in St Paul's cathedral.
▪ These rocks contain the fossilised remains of extinct animals.
▪ They found the remains of a young woman under the floor boards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A plastic bag containing some of his remains was found two weeks later at Reigate.
▪ Before me were the remains of an impromptu wedding breakfast.
▪ In shallow marine sediments from anywhere on the present Earth one might expect to find the skeletal remains and teeth of sharks.
▪ They also direct preparation and shipment of remains for out-of-State burial.
▪ This facial reconstruction is used by police when they're trying to identify human remains.
Wiktionary
remains

n. 1 What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse. 2 Historical or archaeological relic. 3 (senseid en writings)The extant writings of a deceased person. 4 All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants. vb. (en-third-person singular of: remain)

WordNet
remains

  1. n. any object that is left unused or still extant; "I threw out the remains of my dinner"

  2. the dead body of a human being [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay]

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Wikipedia
Remains

Remains may refer to:

  • "Remains" (song), a 2009 song by Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon
  • Remains (Alkaline Trio album), a 2007 compilation album by punk band Alkaline Trio
  • Remains (comics), a 2004 five-issue comic book series by Steve Niles and Kieron Dwyer
  • Remains (film), a 2011 zombie horror film based on the comic book series
  • Remains (Annihilator album), a 1997 album by heavy metal band Annihilator
  • Remains (Bella Morte album), a 1997 album by gothic rock band Bella Morte
  • Remains (Only Ones album), a 1984 album by rock band The Only Ones
  • The Remains, a.k.a. Barry and the Remains, a 1960s rock band from Boston
Remains (The Only Ones album)

Remains is The Only Ones rarities album released in 1984. This collection combines pre-Only Ones recordings from November 1975 with Only Ones demos, many from August 1976. Both sessions took place at Tooting Studios in South London. The 1975 titles — "Watch You Drown", "My Rejection", "Don't Hold Your Breath" and "I Only Wanna Be Your Friend" — also feature the talents of Glenn Tilbrook, Gordon Edwards, drummer Alan Platt, and John Perry playing bass. These demos pre-date the recording of the first Only Ones single, "Lovers of Today". Subsequent tracks all feature the regular Only Ones line-up.

"Counterfeit Woman" and "Baby's Got a Gun" are later, full band recordings from Basing Street studios, and "Silent Night" was recorded at the Dutch radio station Hilversum. "Devon Song" originates from some 8-track demos recorded at Romansleigh in North Devon.

Remains (Annihilator album)

Remains is the sixth studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Annihilator, released on July 21, 1997 by Music For Nations and CMC International. All instruments were performed by Jeff Waters following the dissolution of the previous line-up. However, John Bates and Dave Steele make an appearance on "No Love" on guitars and vocals respectively, with Steele also appearing on "Wind". The album features a more industrial-oriented sound and also features a drum machine. Remains was the last album for 18 years (until Suicide Society) to feature lead vocals by Waters on an Annihilator album.

Remains (Alkaline Trio album)

Remains is a compilation album from Alkaline Trio.

Remains (comics)

Remains is a five-issue comic book limited series published by IDW Publishing in 2004. The story is written by Steve Niles and has art by Kieron Dwyer.

Remains is about a post-apocalyptic world overrun with flesh-eating zombies.

Remains (Bella Morte album)

Remains is a 1997 album by the band Bella Morte.

Remains (song)

"Remains" is a single from Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon and was released on July 9, 2009.

The track was co-written and produced by Maurissa and Jed specifically for inclusion in " Epitaph One," the unaired lost episode of Joss Whedon's sci-fi television series Dollhouse, which Maurissa and Jed also wrote together.

Remains (film)

Remains, also billed as Steve Niles' Remains is a 2011 post-apocalyptic horror film. It depicts a small group of people in a Reno, Nevada casino who have survived a nuclear disaster while the rest of humanity has been turned into flesh eating zombies. It was produced by the Chiller Network and is based on the comic book series of the same name.

Usage examples of "remains".

Deborah's and Fred's remains had been defleshed, degreased, photographed from every angle, the inventory of their bones completed.

Determining the sex and race of skeletal remains cannot always be done at a glance.

Tuning out their conversation, I arranged one of the sheets next to the female's remains and turned her on her back.

On top of a white sheet covering the first stainless steel table were Deborah Harvey's remains, gray dirty bones, clumps of muddy hair, and ligaments as tan and tough as shoe leather.

Skeletal remains get gnawed, chewed on, and torn from limb to limb by rats, buzzards, dogs, and raccoons.

Some remains were archaeological, others turned out to be bear or beaver paws or the hydrocephalic skulls of calves, human-looking artifacts found along the wayside or turned up by plows, and feared, at first, to be what was left of a person who had met a violent end.

The same sticker I was given years ago when the skeletal remains were discovered at that archaeology dig, Martin's Hundred.

I had accused investigators of tampering with Fred Cheney's and Deborah Harvey's remains at the scene, and then returned to the wooded area to search for a cartridge case myself because I did not trust the police to find it.

Twilight lingers, and the sky remains the purple maroon that is beginning to fade, but the lamps set in brackets on the columns have already been lit.

The Palace remains an edifice of shimmering white, and light beams from its windows, from the innumerable lamps within its high-ceilinged corridors and halls.

None of the five manuals in the built-in oak bookcase has been opened in years, if not generations, as Lorn discovers when lifting one and discovering that a thin strip of leather from the binding remains stuck to the wood of the shelves.

Helkyt remains silent as they continue riding, the expressions on his face varying from concern to puzzlement as he occasionally casts a sidelong glance at Lorn.

He hopes that Flutak remains alone, for the overcaptain knows he cannot afford to lurk and wait, or to dally.

The courtyard remains quiet, as is the stable, and no one disturbs Lorn as he saddles the chestnut.

While Lorn remains troubled over the woman's death, he has seen enough to know that all too many in Cyador do not value daughters over golds.