Preserve vs Dry - What's the difference?

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Preserve is a related term of dry.

As a verb preserve

is .

As an acronym dry is

(computing).

preserve

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

A sweet spread made of any of a variety of berries.

A reservation, a nature preserve.

*1881 , :

*:Suppose Shakespeare had been knocked on the head some dark night in preserves , the world would have wagged on better or worse, the pitcher gone to the well, the scythe to the corn, and the student to his book; and no one been any the wiser of the loss.

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Usage notes

More often used in the plural, as strawberry preserves'', but the form without the ''-s can also be used as the plural form, or to refer to a single type.

Synonyms

* jam * jelly * marmalade

Verb

(preserv)

To protect; to keep from harm or injury.

* Shakespeare

Now, good angels preserve the king.

* (Yuri Gagarin)

Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it.

To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.

to preserve peaches or grapes

To maintain throughout; to keep intact.

to preserve''' appearances; to '''preserve silence

Anagrams

* perverse ----

dry

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) drye, drie, dri, drige, dryge, . See also (l), (l), (l).

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(en-adj)

Free from liquid or moisture.

* Addison

The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season.

* Prescott

Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.

(chemistry) Free of water in any state; anhydrous.

Thirsty; needing drink.

* (William Shakespeare)

Give the dry fool drink.

(of an alcoholic beverage) Lacking sugar or low in sugar; not sweet.

Maintaining temperance; void or abstinent from alcoholic beverages.

(of a person or joke) Subtly humorous, yet without mirth.

* (Washington Irving)

He was rather a dry , shrewd kind of body.

(of a scientist or his laboratory) Not working with chemical or biological matter, but, rather, doing computations.

(masonry) Built without mortar; dry-stone.

(of animals) Not giving milk.

Lacking interest or amusement; barren; unembellished.

* (Alexander Pope)

These epistles will become less dry , more susceptible of ornament.

(fine arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or lacking delicate contours and soft transitions of colour.

Synonyms

* (free from liquid or moisture) arid, parched

Antonyms

* (free from liquid or moisture) wet * (abstinent from alcohol) wet * wet

Derived terms

* bone dry * dry as a bone * dry as a dead dingo’s donger * dry cough * dry hole * dry ice * drily * dry run * dryly * dryness * dry spell * drywall * dry weight * like watching paint dry

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Verb

To lose moisture.

The clothes dried on the line.

To remove moisture from.

Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.

(ambitransitive, figurative) To cease or cause to cease.

Their sources of income dried up.

The stream of chatter dried up.

Derived terms

* drier * dryer * dry out * dry up * nondrying