different between preserve vs inherit

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

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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 Middle English enheriten, from Old French enheriter, from Late Latin inhereditare (“make heir”). Replaced native Old English irfan, compare related noun erf (“inheritance”), from Middle English erve, from Old English yrfe, ierfe (“heritage, bequest, inheritance, property, inherited property, property that passes to an heir, cattle, livestock”), from Proto-Germanic *arbij? (“heritage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erb?- (“to change ownership”) (from which also *h?órb?os (“orphan”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?h???t/
• Rhymes: -???t

Verb

inherit (third-person singular simple present inherits, present participle inheriting, simple past and past participle inherited)

1. (transitive) To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).

2. (transitive) To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.

3. (transitive, biology) To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.

4. (transitive) To derive from people or conditions previously in force.

5. (intransitive) To come into an inheritance.

6. (computing, programming, transitive) To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.

7. (computing, programming, transitive) To derive a new class from (a superclass).
8. (transitive, obsolete) To put in possession of.

Usage notes

• Do not confuse with inherent.

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