different between conservation vs repair

English

Etymology

From Old French.Surface analysis conserve +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?ns?(?)?ve???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

conservation (countable and uncountable, plural conservations)

1. The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
2. Wise use of natural resources.
3. (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
4. (biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
5. (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
6. (physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)

Derived terms

• anticonservation
• anticonservationist
• conservational
• conservation law

Translations

Anagrams

• conversation, nanovortices

French

Etymology

From Latin conservatio.

Pronunciation

Noun

conservation f (plural conservations)

1. conservation

Derived terms

• loi de conservation
• loi de conservation de l'énergie

Further reading

• “conservation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• conversation

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???p??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???p??/, /???p??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Etymology 1

Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Middle English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin repar? (“renew, repair”).

Verb

repair (third-person singular simple present repairs, present participle repairing, simple past and past participle repaired)

1. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
2. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:repair

Derived terms

• repairable, reparable
• repairer

Translations

Noun

repair (countable and uncountable, plural repairs)

1. The act of repairing something.
2. The result of repairing something.

3. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.

Derived terms

• disrepair

Related terms

• reparation
• reparative

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English repairen (“to return”), from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriare (“to return to one's country”), from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repatriate.

Noun

repair (plural repairs)

1. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
2. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.

   • There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair.

Translations

Verb

repair (third-person singular simple present repairs, present participle repairing, simple past and past participle repaired)

2. To transfer oneself to another place.

Derived terms

• repatriate

Translations

Etymology 3

From re- +? pair.

Verb

repair (third-person singular simple present repairs, present participle repairing, simple past and past participle repaired)

1. to pair again

Further reading

• repair in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• repair in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “repair” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “repair”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Rapier, pairer, rapier