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# leftover

«leftover» in Mova's school dictionary: **not eaten at a meal and is kept for later** — 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 (leftovers, usually plural); adjective (leftover food)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (leftovers) Food that is not eaten at a meal and is kept for later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leftover/#m1)

2) (adjective) Remaining or not used: «leftover paint», «leftover money». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leftover/#m2)

3) Something that remains from an earlier time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leftover/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and food lessons: keep leftovers in the fridge and eat them within a day or two; heat them until piping hot. Cutting food waste is part of caring for the planet. In maths, «leftover» is the remainder: «24 sweets shared among 5 children: each gets 4, and 4 are left over».

### examples

- We had leftovers from Sunday lunch on Monday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leftover/#x1)
- Put the leftover pizza in the fridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leftover/#x2)
- Mum made soup from the leftover vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leftover/#x3)
- I used the leftover paint for my model. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leftover/#x4)
- Share 17 cards among 3 friends; how many are left over? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leftover/#x5)
- Don't eat leftovers that smell bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leftover/#x6)
- The leftover money went into the class fund. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leftover/#x7)

### note

As a noun usually plural: «leftovers». As an adjective one word: «leftover cake»; as a verb phrase two words: «There is some cake left over». In division, the leftover is the remainder (r): 17 ÷ 3 = 5 r 2.

### In the corpora

- [Bread fills ducks with little goodness and rotting leftovers dirty the pond; oats, peas, sweetcorn or duck food are better.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/16/)
- [In many countries it is against the law to feed pigs kitchen leftovers, because meat scraps can spread serious pig diseases.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/13/)
- [The leftover from the factory is oxygen, the gas we breathe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/4/)
- [Fish should get only as much food as they eat in a couple of minutes, because leftovers rot and poison the water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/16/)
- [Before stacking plates, scrape the leftovers into the bin or the food caddy, a small bin just for food scraps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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