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Leftover   /lˈɛftˌoʊvər/   Listen
noun
leftover  n.  An unused part or portion; used especially of food remaining uneaten from a previous meal; as, to have leftovers for dinner.
Synonyms: remnant.



adjective
leftover  adj.  
1.
Not used up; remaining after use of part; as, unusable leftover auto parts.
Synonyms: left over(predicate), left(predicate), odd, remaining, unexpended.
2.
Specifically: Remaining from a previous meal; of food; as, leftover food served at a later meal.
Synonyms: cooked-over, warmed-over, reheated.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Leftover" Quotes from Famous Books



... emerged clearly to view in this Potomac study that standard treatment alone is no longer an answer in areas of concentrated or continuous population and industry, where the leftover wastes and the nutrients in the effluent from even well-run standard plants can often add up to a killing load ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior

... The pollen thrust far out of each tube in the early stage of bloom, has usually all been brushed off on the underside of bees, wasps, butterflies, flies, and beetles before the stigma matures; nevertheless, when it becomes susceptible, the anthers spread apart to keep out of its way lest any leftover pollen ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan

... when he could barter his surplus eggs or milk for them, and instead went back to the practices of his forefather, becoming for all intents and purposes practically selfsufficient. Soap from woodashes and leftover kitchen grease might scratch his skin and a jacket of rabbit or wolverine hide make him selfconscious, but he went neither cold nor hungry nor dirty while his urban counterpart, ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

... uppermost, Casey split the paper carefully down the side of the remaining half-stick, took out the contents in a tin plate and carried it outside where he buried it in the sand beneath a bush. Returning to the dugout he made a thick dough of leftover pancake batter and molded it into the dynamite wrapping with a fragment of harmless fuse protruding from the opened end. When the thing was dry, Casey thought it would look very deadly and might be useful. After several ...
— The Trail of the White Mule • B. M. Bower

... over one day with some leftover soup which he purposed giving to the Russians. The sentry would not let him pass. He went back and told his mate. The latter, a kindly little fellow, thinking that the sentry had not understood the ...
— The Escape of a Princess Pat • George Pearson



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