different between preservation vs defense

English

Etymology

From Old French preservacion, from Medieval Latin preservatio.Morphologically preserve +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /p??.z??ve?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

preservation (countable and uncountable, plural preservations)

1. The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

   • Nature does not require
     Her times of preservation, which, perforce
     I give my tendence to

   • The eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, his is ther mighty protection, a preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling.

   • c. 1600, Sir John Davies, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul

     Every seneseless thing by nature's light
     Doth preservation seek, destruction shun

   • , Book II, Chapter XXI

     our all-wise Maker, suitably to our constitution and frame, and knowing what it is that determines the will, has put into man the uneasiness of hunger and thirst, and other natural desires, that return at their seasons, to move and determine their wills, for the preservation of themselves, and the continuation of their species

Translations

Anagrams

• varentropies

English

Alternative forms

• defence (British)

Etymology

From French défense, itself from Late Latin d?fensa (“protection”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /d??f?ns/
• (sports): (US, often) IPA^(key): /?di??f?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Noun

defense (countable and uncountable, plural defenses) (American spelling)

1. The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
2. Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
   1. (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
   2. (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
3. An argument in support or justification of something.
   1. (law, by extension) The case presented by the defendant in a legal proceeding.
   2. (law, by extension) The lawyer or team thereof who presents such a case.
4. (government, military) Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.

   Department of Defense

5. (obsolete) A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:defense

Antonyms

• offense

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /de??fen.se/, [d?e??f??s??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de?fen.se/, [d???f?ns?]

Participle

d?f?nse

1. vocative masculine singular of d?f?nsus

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?fense/, [d?e?f?n.se]

Verb

defense

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of defensar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of defensar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of defensar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of defensar.