Custody vs Conservation - What's the difference?
custody | conservation | Synonyms |
The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
Wise use of natural resources.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
(biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
(culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
(physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
Custody is a synonym of conservation.
As nouns the difference between custody and conservation
is that custody is the legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children while conservation is the act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.custody
English
Noun
(wikipedia custody) (-)- The court awarded custody to the child's father.
- I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.
- He was mistreated while in police custody .
Derived terms
* joint custody * maternal custody * paternal custody * protective custody * sole custodyExternal links
* * *conservation
English
(wikipedia conservation)Noun
citation, passage=“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.