different between safekeeping vs conservation

English

Etymology

safe +? keeping

Noun

safekeeping (usually uncountable, plural safekeepings)

1. the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft
2. the storage of assets in a protected area
3. the responsibility of a guardian
4. (US) not returning checks; a system wherein banks keep checks (cheques) that people write, rather than returning them to the account holder with their monthly statement.

Translations

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

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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