From en.wiktionary.org:
[préserve]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en] [archaic]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en] [la],[1] from [en] [la], from [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. A sweet spread made of any of a variety of fruits.
2. A reservation , a nature preserve .
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1881 | author=s:Robert Louis Stevenson | title=s:Virginibus Puerisque
|passage=Suppose Shakespeare had been knocked on the head some dark night in
吴语: Thomas Lucy 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.}}
1. An activity with restricted access .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1989 | translator= 吴语: Harry Willetts | author=w:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | title= 吴语: August 1914 (novel) | page=86 | publisher=w:Farrar, Straus and Giroux | isbn=0-374-51999-4
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-06-22 | volume=407 | issue=8841 | page=68 | magazine=w:The Economist
|title=T time (see
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21579860-g8-pledges-tackle-three-ts-t-time)
|passage=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.}}
**** Usage notes
More often used in the plural, as _strawberry preserves_, but the form without
the _-s_ can also be used as the plural form, or to refer to a single type.
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[sweet spread]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
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[nature preserve]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh] , [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
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[activity with restricted access]
- French: [fr]
- Polish: [pl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
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**** See also
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To protect ; to keep from harm or injury.
2. * [II]
3. 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.
4. To maintain throughout; to keep intact.
5. * [page=266]
6. * [II]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to protect]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba] / [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dhivehi: [dv]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Ido: [io] , [io]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Mirandese: [mwl]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Polabian: [pox]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Welsh: [cy]
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[to prepare food for storage]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Greek:
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Scottish Gaelic: [food] [gd]
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[to keep; to maintain the condition of]
- Bashkir: [ba] / [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Khmer: [km]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy] [literary] , [cy]
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*** References
References:
[1]. [prēserven]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Portuguese
*** Verb
[pt]
1. [preservar]
** Spanish
*** Verb
[es]
1. [preservar]