Resilient vs Preserve - What's the difference?
resilient | preserve |
Able to endure tribulation without cracking.
* 1994 , Michael Grumley, The Last Diary :
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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* Shakespeare
* (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.
As verbs the difference between resilient and preserve
is that resilient is while preserve is .resilient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He’s resilient , and strong, but sometimes tonight, here, the weight of what he’s saying makes him stop, pause as if lost.
Derived terms
* resilienceSynonyms
* bendable * flexible * strongAntonyms
* brittle * fragilepreserve
English
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