different between preserve vs conserve

English

Alternative forms

• præserve (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English preserven, from Old French preserver, from Medieval Latin pr?serv?re (“keep, preserve”), from Late Latin praeserv?re (“guard beforehand”), from prae (“before”, adverb) +? serv?re (“maintain, keep”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???z??v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???z?v/
• Rhymes: -??(?)v

Noun

preserve (countable and uncountable, plural preserves)

1. A sweet spread made of any of a variety of fruits.
2. A reservation, a nature preserve.
   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     Suppose Shakespeare had been knocked on the head some dark night in Sir Thomas Lucy's 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.

3. An activity with restricted access.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 86:

     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.

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.

Translations

Synonyms

• jam
• jelly
• marmalade

See also

• preserver

Verb

preserve (third-person singular simple present preserves, present participle preserving, simple past and past participle preserved)

1. To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
2. 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.

   to preserve peaches or grapes

3. To maintain throughout; to keep intact.

   to preserve appearances; to preserve silence

Translations

References

Anagrams

• persever, perverse

Portuguese

Verb

preserve

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of preservar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of preservar
3. first-person singular imperative of preservar
4. third-person singular imperative of preservar

Spanish

Verb

preserve

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

English

Etymology

From Old French conserver, from Latin conservare (“to keep, preserve”), from com- (intensive prefix) + servo (“keep watch, maintain”). See also observe.

Pronunciation

Noun

• enPR: k?n'sû(r)v, IPA^(key): /?k?ns??(?)v/
• Rhymes: -?ns??(?)v

Verb

• enPR: k?n-sû(r)v', IPA^(key): /k?n?s??(?)v/
• Rhymes: -??(r)v

Noun

conserve (plural conserves)

1. Wilderness where human development is prohibited.
2. A jam or thick syrup made from fruit.
   • August 11, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 53

     I shall […] study broths, plasters, and conserves, till from a fine lady I become a notable woman.

3. (obsolete) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar.
4. (obsolete) A conservatory.
   • c. 1700, John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum

     water […] alwayes placed in the Conserve

Translations

Verb

conserve (third-person singular simple present conserves, present participle conserving, simple past and past participle conserved)

1. (transitive) To save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.

   to conserve fruits with sugar

   • 1721, John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials

     the amity which […] they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor

2. (transitive) To protect an environment.
3. (physics, chemistry, intransitive) To remain unchanged during a process

Derived terms

• conservation
• conservative
• conservatory

Translations

Anagrams

• Cervones, Converse, converse, coveners, encovers

French

Noun

conserve f (plural conserves)

1. canned food, preserve

Derived terms

Verb

conserve

1. first-person singular present indicative of conserver
2. third-person singular present indicative of conserver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of conserver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of conserver
5. second-person singular imperative of conserver

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• recevons

Italian

Noun

conserve f

1. plural of conserva

Anagrams

• converse
• scernevo

Latin

Noun

c?nserve

1. vocative singular of c?nservus

Portuguese

Verb

conserve

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of conservar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of conservar
3. first-person singular imperative of conservar
4. third-person singular imperative of conservar

Spanish

Verb

conserve

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