Conserve

Definition: Conserve

Conserve

Noun

1. Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar.

Verb

1. 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: Conserve

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.

Crosswords: Conserve

French (tinned food), Romanian (canned food, preserves).

Must conserve battery powrt. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

La Conserve alimentaire (1939)

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Books

• Conserve a sus empleados valiosos (reference)

• Conserve Tuvs, Eh? (reference)

• Conserve Water, Drink Wine: Recollections of a Vinous Voyage of Discovery (reference)

• Oregon's Living Landscape: Strategies and Opportunities to Conserve Biodiversity (reference)

• Running Dry: How to Conserve Water Indoors and Out (reference)

  (more book examples)

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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.

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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)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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

Portuguese

conservar (keep, maintain, preserve, recoup, reserve, retain). (various references)

Romanian

conserva (can, dry-salt, pack, pot, preserve), pãstra (guard, have, hold, keep, maintain, observe, preserve, remain, reserve, retain, store). (various references)

Russian 

сохранять (enshrine, hold in trust, keep, maintain, preserve, retain, save, saves). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

konzervirati (can, cure, preserve, tin), konzerva (can, tin), čuvati (favor, favour, guard, husband, protect, store, tend, treasure, watch). (various references)

Spanish

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)

Swedish

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)

Turkish

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)

Ukrainian

консервувати (can, cure, pack, preserve, tin), варення (confiture, preserves), зберігати (embosom, enshrine, preserve, reserve, retain), джем (jam). (various references)

Zulu

-gcina (come to an end, end, end up, expire, keep, maintain, preserve). (various references)

conservare, conservo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "conserve": conserved, conserver, conservers, conserves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conserve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Censerie, concurve, conseire, conser, conserv, convserve, conwere, Konzerne, Kosyrev. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: converse.

-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.

+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.