Preserving

Definition: Preserving

Preserving

Adjective

1. Saving from harm or loss; "serves a conserving function".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "preserving" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Preserving

Preservation

Adjective: preserving; Verb: conservative; prophylactic;

Crosswords: Preserving

We've got a love that's worth preserving (Between You And Me; performing artist: DC Talk)

Preserving the Wasa (1966)

Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future (1989)

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References

• The World Market for Fishing Vessels, Factory Ships, and Vessels for Processing or Preserving Fishery Products: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis (reference)

• The Eight Essential Steps to Conflict Resolution: Preserving Relationships at Work, at Home, and in the Community (reference)

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Periodicals

• British Wood Preserving And Damp-Proofing Association Membership (reference)

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Figure 16. Cases of bottles for preserving water for salinity measurements. The bottles were placed in crates partitioned to protect against shock. The flasks were sealed to prevent evaporation and contamination. Flasks were closed by ground glass stoppers, but the bottles were closed with rubber rings and and metal levers for ease of sealing and opening. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 17. Bottles for preserving water samples for the study of dissolved oxygen. Methods used for preserving water for oxygen samples differed significantly from those used for preserving salinity samples. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Preserving the reverence for life : the challenge of AIDS. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

To enlighten a foreign critic. The Chicago citizen: Sir, we have the ruins, all right, but we are tired of preserving them. They won't keep. Credit: Library of Congress.

Preserving and canning time. Mrs. Balto.: Have you ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) resettlement borrower preserving vegetables in her home at San Luis Valley Farms, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cold storage lockers where farmers store meat and vegetables, eliminating much home canning and preserving of foods. Independence, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

It's preserving time. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The legislative power is that, which has a right to direct how the force of the common-wealth shall be employed for preserving the community and the members of it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Each of the Allied and Associated Powers reserves to itself the right to impose such limitations, conditions or restrictions on rights of industrial, literary or artistic property (with the exception of trade-marks) acquired before or during the war, or which may be subsequently acquired in accordance with its legislation, by German nationals, whether by granting licences, or by the working, or by preserving control over their exploitation, or in any other way, as may be considered necessary for national defence, or in the public interest, or for assuring the fair treatment by Germany of the rights of industrial, literary and artistic property held in German territory by its nationals, or for securing the due fulfilment of all the obligations undertaken by Germany in the present Treaty. (reference)

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The precaution of a shrewd man preserving his own secret before his accomplices.

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Health

Preserving bone strength after menopause is the next step toward preventing osteoporosis. (references)

Smoking, pickling, and other methods of processing or preserving meats do not kill the parasite. (references)

There are several approaches, in addition to estrogen supplementation, to preserving bone after menopause. (references)

Business

Thailand's Board of Investment has added to its list of "priority activities" projects that aim at preserving or protecting the environment. (references)

By the year 2000, China needed well-processed, stable and new types of food additives such as high-level food preserving agents, antioxidants (sodium isoascorbate), and flavoring agents. (references)

China also needs special coatings such as new building coatings (super endurance coating), high-level automobile coatings, heavy preserving coatings, high-grade furniture coatings, and marine coatings. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cuba

On June 29, a group of medical professionals issued a document entitled Statement ("Manifesto") 2001 that demanded a new constitution providing for the rights and liberties of everyone while preserving the independence of the nation; a greater economic opening to provide incentives to small- and medium-sized companies while preserving free access to education and health care; and a general amnesty for political prisoners. (references)

Economic History

Australia

For example, both countries sent military forces to the Persian Gulf in support of UN Security Council resolutions relating to Iraq's occupation of Kuwait; both attach high priority to controlling and eventually eliminating chemical weapons, other weapons of mass destruction, and anti-personnel landmines; and both work closely on global environmental issues such as slowing climate change and preserving coral reefs. (references)

Japan

Smooth and flexible bankruptcy procedures make it easier for a corporation and its assets to be acquired or merged in a "rescue" format, thereby preserving employment and protecting underlying corporate value. (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

Domestic NGO's worked on human rights and democracy issues, including lobbying for revision of the POSB, increasing poor women's access to the courts, raising awareness of the abuse of children, eliminating irregularities in voter rolls, conducting voter education, preserving the independence of the judiciary, and eliminating torture, arbitrary detention, and restrictions on freedom of the press and assembly. (references)

Minorities

Macedonia

Albanian-language education remained a crucial issue for the ethnic-Albanian community; it is seen as vital for preserving Albanian heritage and culture. (references)

Political Economy

Bolivia

Despite the presence of the governing coalition of parties with a range of economic beliefs and views, Banzer/Quiroga administration has shown no sign of a lessened commitment to preserving Bolivia's open economy. (references)

Trade

Taiwan

Also restricted and/or controlled is the importation of certain products on the grounds of national security, maintaining the public order, or preserving human, animal or plant health. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "preserving": compactness preserving ♦ preserving agent. Additional references.

Ending with "preserving": order-preserving, self-preserving.

Albanian

konservues. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعليب (preserve), ‏تخليل (acetification, infiltration, pickling, pressing, souse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

запазване (conservation, keeping, persistence, preservation, protection, reservation, retention). (various references)

Chinese 

保存 (Conserve, Conserved, conserves, Conserving, Preservation, Preserved, save, saved). (various references)

Danish

konservering (conservation). (various references)

Dutch

verduurzaming, verduurzamen, conservering (conservation, preserve). (various references)

Finnish

säilöntä. (various references)

French

mise en conserve, conservation (preservation, preserve). (various references)

German

einmachend, bewahrend (reserving, retentive). (various references)

Greek 

κονσερβοποίηση (canning). (various references)

Hebrew 

משמרת (custody, duty, guard, keeping), שמור (conservation, guarded, guarding, preservation, reserved, restricted). (various references)

Hungarian

tartósítás (canning, cure, fixation, packing). (various references)

Indonesian

pengawetan (conservation). (various references)

Italian

conservazione (conservation, keeping, maintenance, preservation, retention, storage). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

構� 保持 (structure preserving), 保安処分 (measures preserving law and order), 塩�"� (preserving in salt, salting down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほあ�"しょぶ�" (measures preserving law and order), �"うぞうほじ (structure preserving), え�"ぞう (preserving in salt, salting down). (various references)

Korean 

보호 (Protecting, Protection, safeguard, safekeeping, Safe-keeping, shielding). (various references)

Manx

panney lhiasee (preserving pan). (various references)

Pig Latin

eservingpray

Portuguese

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

Romanian

pãstrãtor (economical, keeper, looker, observant of, observer of, preserver, thrifty). (various references)

Russian 

консервирование (canning, conservation, preservation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

konzervacija (cocooning, conservation, plastic spray packaging). (various references)

Spanish

fabricación de conservas, conservación (conservation, maintenance, packing, preservation, retention, upkeep). (various references)

Swedish

inkokning. (various references)

bernice. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "preserving": cryopreserving. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Preserving" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perserving, Preservene. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: peregrins, reserving, reversing.

-2 letters: grievers, peregrin, prerinse, repiners, resigner, respring, revering, ripeners, severing, speering, springer, verniers.

-3 letters: enviers, erepsin, greisen, griever, grieves, gripers, inverse, nervier, peering, peeving, pensive, perries, pingers, preeing, previse, prisere, reeving, regiven, regives, reivers, repiner, repines, reprise, rerisen, respire, reviser, rievers, ringers, ripener, seeping, serving, springe, veering, veiners, venires, vergers.

+1 letter: persevering.

+3 letters: overspreading, perseverating, perseveringly, unprogressive.

+4 letters: cryopreserving, nonprogressive, overimpressing, overpersuading, overprocessing, overresponding.

+5 letters: antiprogressive, nonprogressives, overcompressing, overprescribing, progressiveness.

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