Preserve vs Restrict - What's the difference?
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A sweet spread made of any of a variety of berries.
A reservation, a nature preserve.
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*: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.
An activity with restricted access.
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, title= To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
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* (Yuri Gagarin)
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 maintain throughout; to keep intact.
To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
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(specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
As verbs the difference between preserve and restrict
is that preserve is while restrict is to restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.As an adjective restrict is
(obsolete) restricted.preserve
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.}}
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 * marmaladeSee also
* preserverVerb
(preserv)- Now, good angels preserve the king.
- Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it.
- to preserve peaches or grapes
- to preserve''' appearances; to '''preserve silence
Anagrams
* perverse ----restrict
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Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.}}
- If we restrict sine to , we can define its inverse.