Preservation vs Reservation - What's the difference?
preservation | reservation |
The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
* William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
* Ecclesiastes. xxxiv. 16
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The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
Something that is withheld or kept back.
A limiting qualification (often used in the plural).
(US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian (reserve)).
An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
(UK) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway.
(India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
As nouns the difference between preservation and reservation
is that preservation is the act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill while reservation is the act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.preservation
English
Noun
(en noun)- Nature does not require''
''Her times of preservation, which, perforce''
''I give my tendence to
- The eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, his is ther mighty protection, a preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling.
- Every seneseless thing by nature's light''
''Doth preservation seek, destruction shun
- Our allwise maker has put into man the uneasiness of hunger, thirst and other natural desires, to determine their wills for the preservation of themselves, and the continuation of their species.
reservation
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have reservations about your intentions.