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# dregs

«dregs» in Mova's school dictionary: **the last thick bits left at the bottom of a drink** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (dregs, plural only)

### meaning for a pupil

1) the last thick bits left at the bottom of a drink [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dregs/#m1)

2) the lowest or worst part of something [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dregs/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories the bitter bottom of a cup, or the last drop of a drink

### examples

- Drink the juice but leave the dregs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dregs/#x1)
- He drained the cup right down to the dregs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dregs/#x2)
- Only the dregs of the wine were left in the bottle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dregs/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; the dregs are not counted as a full measure

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dregs» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dregs/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.