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Promote vs Preserve - What's the difference?

promote | preserve |

As verbs the difference between promote and preserve

is that promote is to raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank while preserve is .

promote

English

Verb

(promot)
  • To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
    • He promoted his clerk to office manager.
    Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
  • To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
    • They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
    They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
  • To encourage, urge or incite
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end}}
  • To elevate to the above league.
    • At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
  • (label) To increase the activity of a catalyst by changing its surface structure
  • (label) To exchange a pawn for a queen or other piece when it reaches the 8th rank

    • Antonyms

    * (raise rank) demote * (advocate or urge on behalf of) denigrate, oppose

    Related terms

    * promotion

    Anagrams

    * * English transitive verbs ----

    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.
  • An activity with restricted access.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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 * marmalade

    See also

    * preserver

    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 ----