Hypertext Webster Gateway: "remain"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Remain \Re*main"\ (r?-m?n"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Remained}
(-m?nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Remaining}.] [OF. remaindre,
remanoir, L. remanere; pref. re- re- + manere to stay,
remain. See {Mansion}, and cf. {Remainder}, {Remnant}.]
1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after
others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a
number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be
left as not included or comprised.
Gather up the fragments that remain. --John vi. 12.
Of whom the greater part remain unto this present,
but some are fallen asleep. --1 Cor. xv.
6.
That . . . remains to be proved. --Locke.
2. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or
undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to
last.
Remain a widow at thy father's house. --Gen.
xxxviii. 11.
Childless thou art; childless remain. --Milton.
Syn: To continue; stay; wait; tarry; rest; sojourn; dwell;
abide; last; endure.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Remain \Re*main"\, v. t.
To await; to be left to. [Archaic]
The easier conquest now remains thee. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
remain
v 1: stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress
remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest
assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her
tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"
[syn: {stay}, {rest}] [ant: {change}]
2: continue in a place, position, or situation: "After
graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student
adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student
protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She
continued as deputy mayor for another year" [syn: {stay},
{stay on}, {continue}]
3: be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence,
etc. "There remains the question of who pulled the
trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent
history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a
war"
4: stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility
remained long after they made up" [syn: {persist}, {stay}]
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