Lave vs. Residue — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lave and Residue
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Lave
To wash; bathe.
Residue
The remainder of something after removal of parts or a part.
Lave
To lap or wash against
Waves laved the shore.
Residue
Matter remaining after completion of an abstractive chemical or physical process, such as evaporation, combustion, distillation, or filtration; residuum.
Lave
To refresh or soothe as if by washing
"The quiet and the cool laved her" (Edna Ferber).
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Residue
The part of a monomer or other chemical unit that has been incorporated into a polymer or large molecule.
Lave
To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
Residue
(Law) The remainder of a testator's estate after all specific bequests and applicable debts and expenses have been disposed of. Also called residuum.
Lave
(transitive) To draw, as water; drink in.
Residue
Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
Lave
(transitive) To give bountifully; lavish.
Residue
(chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
Lave
(intransitive) To run down or gutter, as a candle.
Residue
(biochemistry) A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
Lave
To hang or flap down.
Residue
(legal) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
Lave
To wash.
Residue
(complex analysis) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
Lave
To lick.
Residue
That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.
The residue of them will I deliver to the sword.
If church power had then prevailed over its victims, not a residue of English liberty would have been saved.
Lave
The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
Residue
That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies.
Lave
A crowd
Residue
That which remains of a molecule after the removal of a portion of its constituents; hence, an atom or group regarded as a portion of a molecule; a moiety or group; - used as nearly equivalent to radical, but in a more general sense.
Lave
To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.
His feet the foremost breakers lave.
Residue
Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given number, the numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc., are residues.
Lave
To bathe; to wash one's self.
In her chaste current oft the goddess laves.
Residue
Matter that remains after something has been removed
Lave
To lade, dip, or pour out.
Residue
Something left after other parts have been taken away;
There was no remainder
He threw away the rest
He took what he wanted and I got the balance
Lave
The remainder; others.
Lave
Wash or flow against;
The waves laved the shore
Lave
Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
Lave
Wash one's face and hands;
She freshened up in the bathroom
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