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Preserves   /prəzˈərvz/  /prɪzˈərvz/  /prizˈərvz/   Listen
Preserves

noun
1.
Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar.  Synonyms: conserve, conserves, preserve.


Preserve

verb
(past & past part. preserved; pres. part. preserving)
1.
Keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last.  Synonyms: bear on, carry on, continue, uphold.  "Continue the family tradition" , "Carry on the old traditions"  Antonym: discontinue.
2.
Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction.  Synonyms: conserve, keep up, maintain.  "The old lady could not keep up the building" , "Children must be taught to conserve our national heritage" , "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"
3.
To keep up and reserve for personal or special use.  Synonym: save.
4.
Prevent (food) from rotting.  Synonym: keep.  "Keep potatoes fresh"
5.
Maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger.  Synonym: keep.
6.
Keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing.
noun
1.
A domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone.
2.
A reservation where animals are protected.
3.
Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar.  Synonyms: conserve, conserves, preserves.



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"Preserves" Quotes from Famous Books



... Miss Selina Solomons, "How We Won the Vote in California," preserves scores of these names and contains a wealth of details in regard to this ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various
... excels ours in nothing but in the beauty of its plumage, which is as various as the rainbow. This bird, it is well known, goes always against the wind; but perhaps few people know that it preserves the same property when it is dead. I myself hung a dead one by a silk thread directly over a sea-compass, and I can declare it as a fact, that the bill was always turned towards ...
— History of Louisisana • Le Page Du Pratz
... me ten barrels of wine and two of brandy; 30,000 eggs, all packed in boxes with lime and bran; a hundred bags of coffee and boxes of tea, forty boxes of Albert biscuits, a thousand tins of preserves, and a quantity ...
— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt
... had shut his door to the unrepentant and unashamed General, had cut him in the Club, had returned a rudely curt answer to an invitation to dinner, and had generally shown the offender that he trod on dangerous ground when poaching on the preserves of Mr. ...
— Driftwood Spars - The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who - Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life • Percival Christopher Wren
... —preserves the customary emphasis on the main tonality of E-flat major, ending in measures 549-550 with the same dissonances which closed the Exposition. Then are declaimed by the full orchestra those two ...
— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding


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