different between conservator vs picket

English

Alternative forms

• conservatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman conservatour, from Latin conservator (“one who conserves”), agent noun from conservo (“I preserve”).

Noun

conservator (plural conservators)

1. One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

     Chlouveraki, a tenacious archaeological conservator, has salvaged antiquities all over the Middle East.

   • 1726, William Derham, Physico-Theology

     the great Creator and Conservator of the world

2. (law) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
   • 1839, John Bouvier, Law Dictionary

     The Governor [of Missouri] is […] the conservator of the peace

3. An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
4. (Roman Catholicism) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
5. A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.

Derived terms

• conservatorial
• conservator of the peace
• conservatorship

Related terms

• conservatee
• conservation
• conservative

Translations

Further reading

• conservator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch conservateur, from Middle French conservateur, from Old French conservateur, from Latin c?nserv?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n.z?r?va?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: con?ser?va?tor
• Rhymes: -a?t?r

Noun

conservator m (plural conservators or conservatoren, diminutive conservatortje n)

1. curator (of a museum or a library)

Latin

Etymology

From c?nserv? +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.ser?u?a?.tor/, [kõ?s??r?u?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.ser?va.tor/, [k?ns?r?v??t??r]

Noun

c?nserv?tor m (genitive c?nserv?t?ris, feminine c?nserv?tr?x); third declension

1. a keeper, preserver, defender

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? Old French: conservateur
  • Anglo-Norman: conservatour
    • ? English: conservator
  • Middle French: conservateur
    • ? Middle Dutch: conservateur
      • Dutch: conservator

Verb

c?nserv?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of c?nserv?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of c?nserv?

References

• conservator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conservator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conservator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• conservator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French conservateur, from Latin conservator.

Adjective

conservator m or n (feminine singular conservatoare, masculine plural conservatori, feminine and neuter plural conservatoare)

1. conservative

Declension

English

Etymology

From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?p?k?t/
• Rhymes: -?k?t
• Hyphenation: pick?et

Noun

picket (countable and uncountable, plural pickets)

1. A stake driven into the ground.

2. (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
3. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
4. (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 59:

     So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.

5. (sometimes figuratively) A sentry.
6. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
7. (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.

Derived terms

• picket line
• picket pin
• picket rope

Translations

Verb

picket (third-person singular simple present pickets, present participle picketing, simple past and past participle picketed)

1. (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
2. (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
3. (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

   to picket a horse

4. (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Derived terms

• picketing (noun)
• unpicketed

German

Pronunciation

Verb

picket

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of picken