preserve

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Editorial note

I really hope they preserve the Classic view.

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Quick take

a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone; "medicine is no longer a male preserve"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of preserve gathered in one view.

noun

a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone; "medicine is no longer a male preserve"

noun

a reservation where animals are protected

noun

fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for preserve.

noun

a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone; "medicine is no longer a male preserve"

noun

a reservation where animals are protected

noun

fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

See also: conserve, conserves, preserves

verb

keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"

verb

keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"

verb

to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"

verb

prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh"

verb

maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger; "May God keep you"

verb

keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing; "preserve the forest and the lakes"

Example sentences

I really hope they preserve the Classic view.

If there's any chance to preserve the games we're playing now, it's probably up to us to make it happen.

It's smarter to preserve a system that you are firmly at the top of than it is to lower standards to get more deal flow.

We went up in an observation tower overlooking the preserve and watched A-10s do strafing practice.

Authority depends on the status quo, and will try everything in its power to preserve that.

It allowed us to asynchronously get data from the server and preserve document state on the client.

Did you happen to miss that part in the page you linked?The money these countries get from allowing safaris does pay for the parks they preserve.

And it's not enough just to preserve headers; what if you pump stuff out to a temporary file and read it in a few milliseconds later?

"If you want to truly appreciate the work monks did to preserve knowledge in the medieval period, try writing a book out by hand.

Instead of asking whether or not their actions will help preserve the System, people can now honestly ask whether certain portions of the System are worth preserving in the first place.

We could have chosen to ride out multiple other attacks and engage in a lot of time consuming and expensive behavior to preserve a site that was already a source of ops disruption.

But Lua the language is a bit more of a moving target; to preserve cleanliness and orthogonality they sometimes break the language in non-backward-compatible ways.

While this wouldn't do anything anyway without --no-preserve-root added, it still brings up a good point about interrupted connections executing incomplete code which would otherwise be safe if the command was finished.

" Rather than snark about how the phenomenon is bosses is somehow unnatural and antithetical to human existence, why don't we work on creating institutions that preserve the advantages of having a boss while ameliorating the disadvantages?

There are a number of beautiful places in the United States where it is possible for a person to subsist quite luxuriously on $1200/mo and preserve the ability to throw parties for friends, buy books and tools, etc. As of January a person with such income will have free Medicare in Oregon.