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preserve
has definitions from the fields of food,government,geography
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[ verb ] keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
Examples "preserve the peace in the family" "continue the family tradition" "Carry on the old traditions" Used in print (Newark Evening News,...)He said `` Morris_County is rapidly changing and unless steps are taken _to preserve the green areas , there will be no land left to preserve '' . He said `` Morris_County is rapidly changing and unless steps are taken _to preserve the green areas , there will be no land left to preserve '' . (The New York Times,...)Can religious agencies use Government funds and Peace_Corps personnel in their projects and still preserve the constitutional requirement on separation of church and state ? (William Gomberg, "Unions and the Anti-Trust Laws"...)Compare this statement of a nineteenth-century judge with how Congressman_Martin , according_to the Daily_Labor_Report of Sept. 19 , 1961 , defends the necessity of enacting anti-trust legislation in the field of labor `` if we wish to prevent monopolistic fixing of wages , production or prices and if we wish to preserve the freedom of the employer and his employees to contract on wages , hours and conditions of employment '' . (The Providence Journal...)Arnolphe , it will be recalled , is a man of mature years who tries to preserve the innocence of his youthful wife-to-be . Related terms discontinue keep resume perpetuate prolong persevere mummify continue proceed maintainer |
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[ verb ] to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
Examples : "save something in case you hit trouble." Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)In the Analytical phase of their Cubism , Braque and Picasso had not_only had to minimize three-dimensionality simply in_order to preserve it ; they had also had to generalize it - to the point , finally , where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as_such : as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself . It was the collage that made the terms of_this dilemma clear : the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become , for_the_first_time , mutually_exclusive alternatives . Related terms keep keep record conserve embalm plastinate hold_the_line care conservation |
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[ verb ] keep in perfect or unaltered condition
Examples "We preserve these archeological findings" "The old lady could not keep up the building" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)It is they , of_course , who keep it alive and preserve it so the same spirit will continue to be present in the Corps for future recruits to find as they come into it . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (food) prevent from rotting, of foods
Synonyms Examples "preserved meats" "keep potatoes fresh" Used in print (Thomas B. Dewey, Hunter at Large....)It was n't cold enough in the tunnel to preserve the body intact . |
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[ noun ] a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone
Examples "medicine is no longer a male preserve" Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)A short time ago all Africa was a Western preserve . Related terms |
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[ verb ] keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing
Examples "preserve the forest and the lakes" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (government,geography) a reservation where animals are protected
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[ noun ] (food) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar
Related terms confiture jam jelly marmalade chowchow lemon_cheese apple_butter |
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