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Preserver vs Shelter - What's the difference?

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Preserver is a related term of shelter.


As verbs the difference between preserver and shelter

is that preserver is (label) to preserve while shelter is to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

As a noun shelter is

a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

preserver

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who preserves.
  • A life preserver
  • A person who refinishes furniture.
  • A person who prepares preserves of fruit or preserved meats.

    • Derived terms

    * life preserver

    Related terms

    * preservation * preserve

    shelter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
    • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 citation , passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
  • An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

    • Derived terms

    * bus shelter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
  • * Dryden
    • Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
  • * Southey
    • You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .
  • To take cover.
    • During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.