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Definitions: Leftover |
LeftoverAdjective1. Not used up; "leftover meatloaf"; "she had a little money left over so she went to a movie"; "some odd dollars left"; "saved the remaining sandwiches for supper"; "unexpended provisions". 2. Uneaten and saved for eating later; "leftover food served at a later meal"; "yesterday's reheated soup". Noun1. A small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "leftover" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references) |
Synonyms: LeftoverSynonyms: cooked-over (adj), left over(p) (adj), left(p) (adj), odd (adj), reheated (adj), remaining (adj), unexpended (adj), warmed-over (adj), remnant (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Leftover |
| English words defined with "leftover": bubble and squeak ♦ freeze. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "leftover": Cogeneration, cold-meat chef, cook, cold meat, COOK, LARDER ♦ GARDE MANGER ♦ roll setter, ROLL TENDER ♦ Uranium Mill Tailings Piles. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Leftover Ladies (1931) | |
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Health | Refrigerate unused or leftover egg- containing foods. (references) | |
Some might think that the best investigation method would be just to culture all the leftover foods in the kitchen, and conclude that the one that is positive is the one that caused the outbreak. (references) | ||
Once a food item is statistically implicated in this manner, further investigation into its ingredients and preparation, and microbiologic culture of leftover ingredients or the food itself (if available) may provide additional information about the nature of contamination. (references) | ||
Business | This allows them to resell leftover equipment to Russian enterprises at prices lower than what Japanese and Korean firms can offer (Chinese companies, selling directly, can undersell Japanese and Korean firms that sell through trading houses like Sumitomo, Marubeni, and others). (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Turkey | However, Ankara's governor did not accept a HADEP petition for a rally in an Ankara convention hall on September 1, citing problems with moving out military equipment leftover from August 30 "Victory Day" celebrations. (references) |
Economic History | Georgia | As a leftover from the Soviet period, several ministries purport to have a distribution function, but their efficiency and reliability are questionable. (references) |
Travel | Egypt | Leftover mines from previous conflicts remain buried in several regions of the country and have caused several deaths, including deaths of Americans. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Leftover" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 52.73% of the time. "Leftover" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 52.73% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (singular) | 45.45% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.82% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "leftover": leftover food. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "leftover"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | të mbetura (remain, remainder, remains), mbeturinë (dross, fag end, remnant, residual, residuum, scrap, vestige, vestigium), i mbetur (holdover, residual, residuary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فضلات (offal, pickings, remainder, remains, residue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | останала храна, останал (left, over, remanent, remaning, residual, residuary, stayed), неизядена храна (leftovers), неизяден (uneaten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 残余 (remaining, remnant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zbytek (end, fag end, remain, remainder, remnant, residue, rest, scrap, survival, vestige). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پس مانده غذا, پس مانده (Excrement, Remainder, Residue, Scum), قایمانده , بقایا (Rest, Vestige). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | überrest (fragment, remains, remnant, vestige), überbleibsel (carcass, hangover, holdover, relic, remnant, survival, trace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απομεινάρι (fag end, heel, oddment, remnant, scrap, stub). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | lebihan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 食べ残し . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たべの"し. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eftoverlay sobra (balance, end, hang up, offal, offcut, over, overpoise, remainder, remnant, rest, waste), resto (drain, hangover, heel, odd-come-short, offal, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, rest), esquerdista. (various references) остаток (odd-come-short, remain, remainder, remains, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, rest, scraps, surplus, vestige), оставшийся (residuary), пережиток (carry over, hangover, holdover, remnant, survival, survivals). (various references) ostatak (odd-come-short, oddment, relic, remain, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, rest, rump, vestige). (various references) remanente (profit and loss account reserve brought forward, remainder, remnant, residuary). (various references) สิ่งของที่เหลือ, ที่เหลือ. (various references) yemek artığı, kalan yemek, kalan (arrears, balance, left behind, over, remainder, remaining, residual, residuary, residue, residuum, rest, rump, surviving, vestigial), artan (accelerating, growing, odd, remaining, residual, residuary, surplus, surplusage, upgrade), artık yemek, artık (anymore, at that, discard, dreg, dregs, dross, effluent, fag end, hog-wash, no longer, no more, refuse, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, rest, scraps, shoddy, spoils, tag end, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "leftover": leftovers. (additional references) | |
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"Leftover" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lefcoe, Litovel, Litoverti, Lutomer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "leftover" (pronounced le"ftō'ver) |
| 3 | -ō' v er | antitakeover, carryover, changeover, crossover, hangover, holdover, layover, makeover, passover, pushover, rollover, spillover, stopover, takeover, turnover, voiceover. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-l-o-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: overlet. | |
-2 letters: floret, lefter, lofter, refelt, reflet, revolt, revote, telfer, vetoer. | |
-3 letters: elver, evert, fetor, fever, fleer, fleet, forte, lever, lover, ofter, overt, refel, relet, revel, revet, trove, volte, voter. | |
-4 letters: ever, feel, feet, felt, fere, fete, flee, floe, fore, fort, free, fret, froe, leer, leet, left, levo, loft, lore, love, orle, over, reef. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-l-o-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: leftovers. | |
+3 letters: overinflate. | |
+4 letters: festivalgoer, overinflated, overinflates. | |
+5 letters: festivalgoers, overfertilize, proliferative. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 66 74 6F 76 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . ..-. - --- ...- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100110 01110100 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e f t o v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0066 0074 006F 0076 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4671728681887184 |
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