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# leaving

«leaving» in Mova's school dictionary: **things left over, such as scraps of food left on a plate** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (leavings, usually plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Leavings are things left over, such as scraps of food left on a plate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leaving/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories leavings are the scraps left after a meal, often given to others to eat

### examples

- The dog ate the leavings from the plate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leaving/#x1)
- The mice found the leavings of a great feast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leaving/#x2)
- Clear away the leavings after lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leaving/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [People change jobs and move all the time; not every leaving hides a secret.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/23/)
- [You cannot honestly claim to feel sad the way people do; you should never make someone feel guilty for leaving.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning/13/)
- [The sidewinder snake moves sideways and touches the hot sand at only two points, leaving J-shaped tracks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/7/)
- [A jay's feather is blue because of shape: crush it and the blue is gone, leaving grey-brown.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers/2/)
- [A soufflé sinks soon after leaving the oven because the air inside cools and shrinks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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