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preserve

noun
/pɹəˈzɜːv/UK/pɹəˈzɝv/US

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.

  1. derived from preserver
  2. inherited from preserven

Definitions

  1. A sweet spread made of any of a variety of fruits.

  2. A reservation, a nature preserve.

  3. An exclusive area of activity.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To protect

      To protect; to keep from harm or injury.

      • 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. […]

    2. To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt

      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.

      • to preserve peaches or grapes

    3. To maintain throughout

      To maintain throughout; to keep intact.

      • 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.

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Derived

game preserve, natural preserve, shooting preserve, biopreserved, cryopreserve, God preserve us, lyopreserve, mispreserve, nonpreserved, preservability, preservable, preservation, preserving glass, preservingly, preserving pan, unpreserved

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at preserve. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at preserve. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at preserve

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA