Preserve vs Retention - What's the difference?
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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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, 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.
The act of retaining or something retained
* 1599 , , II. iv. 95:
The act or power of remembering things
A memory; what is retained in the mind
(medicine) The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces
(obsolete) That which contains something, as a tablet; a means of preserving impressions.
(obsolete) The act of withholding; restraint; reserve.
* 1599 , , V. i. 79:
(obsolete) A place of custody or confinement.
(legal) The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.
As a verb preserve
is .As a noun retention is
retention.preserve
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
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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 * 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 ----retention
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(wikipedia retention)Noun
(en noun)- No woman's heart / So big, to hold so much; they lack retention .
- (Shakespeare)
- His life I gave him, and did thereto add / My love without retention or restraint,
- (Erskine)
- (Craig)