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Verb
/kənˈsərv/,
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conserves, 3rd person singular present; conserved, past participle; conserving, present participle; conserved, past tense;
  1. Protect (something, esp. an environmentally or culturally important place or thing) from harm or destruction
    • - the funds raised will help conserve endangered meadowlands
  2. Prevent the wasteful or harmful overuse of (a resource)
    • - industry should conserve more water
  3. Maintain (a quantity such as energy or mass) at a constant overall total

  4. Retain (a particular amino acid, nucleotide, or sequence of these) unchanged in different protein or DNA molecules

  5. Preserve (food, typically fruit) with sugar

Noun
  1. A sweet food made by preserving fruit with sugar; jam

  1. conserve: fruit preserved by cooking with sugar
  2. (conserve) keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change; "Energy is conserved in this process"
  3. (conserve) 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"
  4. (conserve) use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"
  5. (conserved) protected from harm or loss
  6. Fruit preserves are fruits, or vegetables, that have been prepared and canned for long term storage. The preparation of fruit preserves traditionally involves the use of pectin as a gelling agent, although sugar or honey may be used as well. ...
  7. (Conserve (NGO)) Conserve is a non-governmental organization (NGO) launched in India in 1998 by husband and wife Shalabh and Anita Ahuja.
  8. (Conserve, (publisher)) Conserve (Dutch: "Uitgeverij Conserve") is a Dutch publishing organization that was founded in 1983 in Schoorl by Kees de Bakker. The company is specialised in publishing historical novels. Cynthia Mc Leod is one of the authors published by Conserve.
  9. (conserve) Wilderness where human development is prohibited; A jam or thick syrup made from fruit; To save for later use; To protect an environment
  10. (Conserve) Combination of fruits, cooked with sugar. Nuts and raisins are frequently added.
  11. (Conserve) to use carefully or sparingly, to avoid waste, to preserve with sugar
  12. (conserve) Verb.  To save or use wisely.
  13. (Conserve) Carrying out actions to improve the health of a species so it no longer needs to be listed as threatened or endangered.
  14. (Conserve) Protect something, especially an environmentally or culturally important place or thing from harm or destruction.
  15. (Conserve) To balance the use and protection of resources with the intent of sustaining resources for future generations.
  16. (Conserve) To manage human use of living (animals, plants) and non-living (e.g., soils, nutrients) resources within an ecosystem in an attempt to restore, enhance, protect, and sustain the quality and quantity of a desired mix of species and ecosystem conditions for present and future generations.
  17. (Conserve) To treat a work so to prevent it from deteriorating. This is a broad function that encompasses many activities of the conservator. Events such as lending and exhibiting may initiate conservation checks. Conservation may also be scheduled at regular intervals. See restore.
  18. (conserve (con - SIRV)) to use only what is needed
  19. (conserve) 1. (verb) To reduce waste or to save; to make fruit into preserves. 2. (noun) A sweet spread that usually contains two fruits mixed with sugar and nuts.
  20. (conserve) stay the same or constant. To say that something is conserved means is to say that the amount of it stays the same and obeys conservation.
  21. (conserve) to protect something from becoming overused or lost all together. Conservation is the wise use of natural resources to avoid wasting naturally occurring resources or using them up completely.
  22. If you conserve a supply of something, you use it carefully so that it lasts for a long time.
  23. (Conserved) Numismatic conservation involves examination, scientific analysis, and a reliance upon an extensive base of numismatic knowledge to determine the nature of a coin’s state of preservation and the extent of any damage. ...
  24. (Conserved) A substance's amount does not change.
  25. (Conserved) in genomics, a portion of genetic code that remains almost unchanged among many different species.