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Definition: Conserve |
ConserveNoun1. Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar. Verb1. To keep up and reserve for personal or special use: "save something in case you hit trouble.". 2. Use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conserve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: ConserveSynonyms: conserves (n), preserves (n), economise (v), economize (v), husband (v), preserve (v), save (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: waste (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sweetness | Sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai, sorghum, taffy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Conserve |
| English words defined with "conserve": Conservational ♦ device ♦ laborsaving, laboursaving ♦ Spanish nectarine ♦ Uvate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "conserve": Advanced Power Management ♦ BASKET GRADER, BASKET PATCHER ♦ CALIFORNIA ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT, country park ♦ DEMONSTRATOR, ELECTRIC-GAS APPLIANCES ♦ Energy Management System, Environmental Conservation Acreage Reserve Program ♦ Fallow cropland ♦ Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative ♦ horizontal tabulation ♦ measurement standard ♦ NRCS ♦ Partners in Flight, pay limit, power save mode ♦ Reactor, nuclear ♦ SAFETY COORDINATOR, Soil Conservation Service, Stubble-mulching. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Conserve" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (tinned food), Romanian (canned food, preserves). |
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Screenplays | Must conserve battery powrt. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Conserve alimentaire (1939) | |
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![]() | A Mississippi state biologist works with bait fishermen to conserve local stocks. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | No. 1 engine loitered during mission to conserve fuel. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
![]() | Ponds provide gully control and help conserve water. Credit: Glenn Shea. | ![]() | Drip irrigation is an excellent way to conserve water in gardens. Credit: Ron Nichols. |
![]() | Farm ponds conserve water and provide fish and wildlife habitat. Credit: Lorraine Mann. | ![]() | Planting foxtail millet, a summer annual forage with low water needs, helps conserve water for subsequent crops. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
![]() | Bicycles speed work and conserve fuel at the Brooklyn, New York navy yard. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window display: Conserve. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Conserve. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You also could ask someone to drive you to and from your treatment visits to help conserve your energy. (references) | |
Sleep may help the body conserve energy and other resources that the immune system needs to mount an attack. (references) | ||
Families of patients with ADRD often prefer the ability to purchase only those services they need and thus conserve resources. (references) | ||
Business | Efforts to protect domestic producers, as well as conserve foreign exchange, cause China to impose a wide variety of barriers and other measures. (references) | |
Furthermore, since the growth of the power supply has gone largely unhindered there are many opportunities to conserve energy with energy efficient techniques. (references) | ||
On the one hand, exporters encounter a wide variety of protectionist practices in China, which are designed to shelter domestic producers from competition and to conserve foreign exchange. (references) | ||
Economic History | El Salvador | A multiple exchange rate regime that had been used to conserve foreign exchange was phased out during 1990 and replaced by a free-floating rate. (references) |
Pakistan | Pakistan is forecasted to harvest another bumper cotton crop at 1.85 MMT in MY 2001/02, as farmers' shift from rice and sugar cane to cotton in an effort to conserve water. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Foreign exchange controls, reintroduced in 1996 to conserve scarce foreign exchange after poor cotton and wheat harvests, also serve as a vehicle for the government's import substitution strategy. (references) | |
Human Rights | Haiti | By year's end, prisoners still held despite valid release orders included Leoncefils Ceance, Esteve Conserve, Calero Vivas Fabien, Jean-Robert Lherisson, Rilande Louis, Leonard Lucas, Georges Metayer, Alexandre Paul, Jean-Michel Richardson, and Jean Enel Samedi. (references) |
Political Economy | NIGERIA | Initially implemented to restore Nigeria's agricultural sector and to conserve foreign exchange, import bans on foodstuffs had been severely compromised by widespread smuggling, food shortages, and sharply higher domestic prices for the protected items and domestic substitutes. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | The project aims to conserve biodiversity and assist with sustainable development on the Ukrainian coast and upland sites of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | But all of us can conserve energy--every one of us, every day of our lives. |
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| "Conserve" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 85.23% of the time. "Conserve" is used about 298 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 85.23% | 254 | 18,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.39% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.38% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 298 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "conserve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | bewaar (keep, maintain, preserve), behou (hang, hang onto, hold, keep, maintain, preserve, rescue, retain, save), bêre (keep, maintain, preserve, put away, store, stow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ruaj (bear, cure, enshrine, guard, hold, hug, keep, lay up, maintain, police, preserve, protect, put by, reserve, retain, safeguard, save, secure, shield, spare, spin out, tend, ware, watch, watch over), reçel (confiture, jam, marmalade), konservoj (bottle, can, cure, preserve, tin), komposto (compote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حفظ الفاكهة بالتسكير, حفظ (commit to memory, conservation, desiccate, din into, keep, keeping, maintenance, memorize, preservation, protect, protection, reservation, reserve, retain, save, set aside, store, treasure), حمى (advocate, anneal, broil, buckler, bulwark, cover, defend, diet, fence, fever, feverish, guard, haven, heat, overheating, patronize, protect, safeguard, shelter, stove, superheat, vindicate, warm up), سكر (candy, fluster, get drunk, intoxicant, liquor, sloshed, souse, sugar, sweeten, take to drink, tank up), صان (arm, cover, defend, embalm, ensure, fence, fend, maintain, preserve, protect, repair, safeguard, screen, steady, tend, vindicate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съхранявам (enshrine, reserve, treasure up), консервирам (can, cure, pack, pot, preserve, process, put down, put up, salt down, tin), държа (held, hold, keep, maintain, nurse, own, poise, stand on, stick to, sway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 保存 (Conserved, conserves, Conserving, Preservation, Preserved, Preserving, save, saved). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zachovat (preserve, reserve), udržovat (keep, maintain, sustain), uchovat (preserve), konzervovat (can), hospodařit s (husband). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | konservere (keep, maintain, preserve), beholde (keep, maintain, preserve, rescue, save). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | conserveren (keep, maintain, preserve), bewaren (guard, keep, look after, maintain, preserve, put away, store, watch over), bergen (keep, maintain, Mons, preserve, put away, rescue, save, store, stow), behouden (keep, maintain, preserve, rescue, safe, save, secure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | konservi (keep, maintain, preserve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | varðveita (keep, maintain, preserve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نگهداری کردن (Keep, Maintain, Patronize, Protect, Upkeep, Ward), کنسروتهیه کردن , کنسرو, ازصدمه محفوظداشتن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | säilyttää (keep, maintain, preserve, retain, store, sustain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | conserver. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | konservieren (can, keep, maintain, preserve, process, tin), erhalten (be awarded, be given, get, have, keep, maintain, obtain, obtained, poll, preserve, recd, receive, support, sustain, to achieve, to conceive, to conserve, to obtain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συντηρώ (fend for oneself, keep, maintain, preserve, support, sustain), διατηρώ (cherish, hold, keep, keep up, maintain, pickle, preserve, retain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשמר (esteem, preserve), רב" (jam, jelly, preserve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | konzerv (bottled foods, can, tin, tinned food), befőtt (bottled fruit, canned fruit, preserve, preserved fruit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | melestarikan (continue, perpetuate, preserve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | conservare (corn, keep, maintain, preserve, remain, reserve, retain, save, store up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 보 하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | freayll ayns shugyr, freayll (conservation, continue, keep, preserve, reserve price, retain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | konservá (keep, maintain, preserve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onservecay conservar (keep, maintain, preserve, recoup, reserve, retain). (various references) conserva (can, dry-salt, pack, pot, preserve), pãstra (guard, have, hold, keep, maintain, observe, preserve, remain, reserve, retain, store). (various references) сохранять (enshrine, hold in trust, keep, maintain, preserve, retain, save, saves). (various references) konzervirati (can, cure, preserve, tin), konzerva (can, tin), čuvati (favor, favour, guard, husband, protect, store, tend, treasure, watch). (various references) conservar (can, hang on, house, keep, keep up, lay away, lay by, leave over, maintain, obtain, preserve, recd, receive, recieve, retain), guardar (bear, bosom, envision, fence, filibeg, guard, hang on, herd, hold, hold back, hold on to, house, keep, keep back, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay up, leave in, look, maintain, observe, preserve, protect, put away, put back, put by, retain, save, shelter, tend, treasure, wait, ward, watch). (various references) konservera (bottle, can, corn, cure, keep, maintain, pack, preserve), spara (economize, lay aside, lay by, lay up, put aside, save, save up, saving, scrape, scrimp, spare). (various references) reçel (chowchow, jam, preserve, preserves), muhafaza etmek (hold, preserve, protect, take care of), korumak (buffer, charm, cocoon, convoy, cover, defend, embosom, embower, encourage, escort, fence, guard, indemnify, keep, keep guard, maintain, patronize, preserve, protect, safeguard, save, screen, secure, shade, shelter, shield, spare, sponsor, vindicate, ward), konservesini yapmak (can, put up). (various references) консервувати (can, cure, pack, preserve, tin), варення (confiture, preserves), зберігати (embosom, enshrine, preserve, reserve, retain), джем (jam). (various references) -gcina (come to an end, end, end up, expire, keep, maintain, preserve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conservare, conservo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conserve": conserved, conserver, conservers, conserves. (additional references) | |
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"Conserve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Censerie, concurve, conseire, conser, conserv, convserve, conwere, Konzerne, Kosyrev. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conserve" (pronounced kunser"v) |
| 3 | -s er" v | serve. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: converse. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-o-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: corvees, encores, necrose. | |
-2 letters: censer, censor, corvee, corves, covens, covers, crones, encore, nerves, recons, screen, secern, soever, venose. | |
-3 letters: cense, ceres, ceros, cones, cores, corns, corse, coven, cover, coves, crone, ernes, erose, evens, nerve, never, neves, onces, ovens, overs, recon, roven, roves, scene, scone, score, scorn, scree, senor, serve, servo, seven, sever, sneer. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-o-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: cheverons, conserved, conserver, conserves, conveners, converges, conversed, converser, converses, conveyers, reconveys. | |
+2 letters: conceivers, conservers, conversely, conversers, converters, covertness, observance, overcleans, reconvenes, reconverts, ventricose. | |
+3 letters: changeovers, contravenes, conversable, conversance, conveyorise, covenanters, governances, insectivore, observances, overconsume, provenances, providences, reconceives, reconvinces. | |
+4 letters: bedcoverings, coerciveness, consecrative, conservative, conservatize, contraveners, convergences, conversances, convertibles, conveyancers, conveyorised, conveyorises, conveyorizes, countermoves, counterviews, covertnesses, divorcements, eigenvectors, evisceration, inobservance, insectivores, misconceiver, noncoverages, overbalances, overconcerns, overconsumed, overconsumes, overissuance, preconceives, proveniences, reconversion, servicewoman, servicewomen, undiscovered, whencesoever. | |
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