preserve
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English preserven, from Old French preserver, from Medieval Latin prēservāre (“keep, preserve”), from Late Latin praeservāre (“guard beforehand”), from prae (“before”, adverb) + servāre (“maintain, keep”). Displaced native Old English nerian.
Base: prae
Inflected forms:
form: preserves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præserve
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: preserves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: preserving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: preserved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: preserved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: præserve
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sweet spread made of any of a variety of fruits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A reservation, a nature preserve.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Suppose Shakespeare had been knocked on the head some dark night in Sir Thomas Lucy's preserves, the world would have wagged on better or worse, the pitcher gone to the well, the scythe to the corn, and the student to his book; and no one been any the wiser of the loss.
gloss: An exclusive area of activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Kids regard their tree houses as their own preserve.
No one can argue with that—neither the Army Commander nor Zhilinsky nor even the Grand Duke. That is the Emperor’s preserve. The Emperor says France must be saved. We can only do his bidding.
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
gloss: To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
pos: verb
examples: Let's pray that we'd be preserved from danger.
Every people has the right to preserve its identity and culture.
O, the Lord preserve thy good Grace! By my troth, welcome to London. […]
gloss: To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.
pos: verb
examples: to preserve peaches or grapes
gloss: To maintain throughout; to keep intact.
pos: verb
examples: to preserve appearances; to preserve silence
I preserved a composed manner throughout the interrogation.
Better men than you, men who could believe and obey, twisted the entrails of iron and preserved the legend of fire.
O, that this good blossom could be kept from cankers! Well, there is sixpence to preserve thee.
Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and jettisoning the features that have given trouble, in particular the chain-driven valve-motion, should give the Southern a supply of highly-competent machines able to last out the remaining life of steam on the S.R.
Related words: preserver
Derived words: game preserve
natural preserve
shooting preserve
biopreserved
cryopreserve
God preserve us
lyopreserve
mispreserve
nonpreserved
preservability
preservable
preservation
preserving glass
preservingly
preserving pan
unpreserved
Translations:
lang: French
word: domaine réservé
lang: Polish
word: domena
lang: Spanish
word: coto
lang: Spanish
word: terreno
lang: Spanish
word: dominio