LEFTOVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leftover mean? 

• LEFTOVER (noun)
  The noun LEFTOVER has 1 sense:

1. a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists

  Familiarity information: LEFTOVER used as a noun is very rare.

• LEFTOVER (adjective)
  The adjective LEFTOVER has 1 sense:

1. not used up

  Familiarity information: LEFTOVER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEFTOVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

leftover; remnant

Hypernyms ("leftover" is a kind of...):

balance; remainder; residual; residue; residuum; rest (something left after other parts have been taken away)

• LEFTOVER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not used up

Synonyms:

left; left over; leftover; odd; remaining; unexpended

Context example:

unexpended provisions

Similar:

unexhausted (not used up completely)

 Context examples 

Neutron stars are the crushed, leftover cores of massive stars that previously exploded as supernovas long ago.

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)

The Kuiper Belt is a vast reservoir of leftover frozen material from the construction of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago and home to several dwarf planets.

(Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake, NASA)

They found traces of ferrous iron, a leftover of blood.

(Dinosaur Tail Found in Myanmar, VOA News)

Leftover debris remains in regions of our own solar system like the Kuiper Belt, beyond Neptune, or the Oort Cloud, far past Pluto.

(Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's Oceans, NASA)

It's thought that the original satellite system was disrupted when Neptune captured its giant moon, Triton, and that these inner moons and rings formed from the leftover debris.

(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)

In the case of the Earth-Moon system and the Pluto-Charon system, the moons are thought to be created through dust leftover after rocky planetary collisions.

(Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System, NASA)

Itaipu Binacional, the world's biggest generator of hydroelectric energy, founded the first biomethane plant that uses a mixture of sewage, grass clippings, and restaurant leftover food as raw material.

(Biomethane rises as alternate source of energy in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

The exoplanet is thoroughly inhospitable — leftover energy from its formation and a powerful greenhouse effect heat HR8799e to a hostile temperature of roughly 1000 °C.

(GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging, ESO)

To reduce your risk: • Use precooked and ready-to-eat foods as soon as you can • Avoid raw milk and raw milk products • Heat ready-to-eat foods and leftovers until they are steaming hot • Wash fresh fruits and vegetables • Avoid rare meat and refrigerated smoked seafood

(Listeria Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

For the experiment, researchers first stripped plant cells from spinach leaves and passed beads the size of human blood cells through the leftover vascular system and seeded the spinach veins with human cells that line our blood vessels.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)