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residuum

[ri-zij-oo-uhm] / rɪˈzɪdʒ u əm /








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The bed looked like the residuum of a lost weekend, yet it also intimated that the bed’s occupant felt herself to be lost, too.

From The New Yorker Apr. 6, 2015

The first machine age, which today is coming to an end, has covered the world with the residuum of its work: houses and cities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stanzas of final peace Lie in the heart's residuum.

From Time Magazine Archive

And as still men and panel men anxiously watched the gauges, the vaporized residuum was forced through the macaroni-shaped catalyst of silica and alumina.

From Time Magazine Archive

After allowing fully for all these, there will be found a great residuum of progressive energy, of intellectual strength, and of moral worth in the people of the southern States.

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

The former, however, is now seldom to be met with, the varieties employed on the palette being the residua of various resinous and bituminous matters, distilled for the sake of their essential oils.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter

In children these motor residua may persist as characteristic features of inflection, accent, or manners; automatisms may become morbid in stammering or stuttering, or they may be seen in gait, handwriting, tics or tweaks, etc.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall

It is well, however, to place the closed apparatus in water, in order that the residua that have entered the threads of the screw may become detached, and that the apparatus may be opened easily.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various

These residua are all black and glossy like common pitch, which differs from them only in having been less acted upon by fire, and thence in being softer.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter

It is the residua of these experiences that have persisted and become associated into complexes which are retained as traits of our personality.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park




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