CONSERVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conserve mean? 

• CONSERVE (noun)
  The noun CONSERVE has 1 sense:

1. fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

  Familiarity information: CONSERVE used as a noun is very rare.

• CONSERVE (verb)
  The verb CONSERVE has 4 senses:

1. keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change

2. keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction

3. use cautiously and frugally

4. preserve with sugar

  Familiarity information: CONSERVE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSERVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

conserve; conserves; preserve; preserves

Hypernyms ("conserve" is a kind of...):

confiture (preserved or candied fruit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conserve"):

apple butter (thick dark spicy puree of apples)

chowchow (a Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger)

jam (preserve of crushed fruit)

lemon cheese; lemon curd (a conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar)

jelly (a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit)

marmalade (a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits)

Derivation:

conserve (preserve with sugar)

• CONSERVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they conserve    ... he / she / it conserves   
Past simple: conserved   
Past participle: conserved   
-ing form: conserving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

Energy is conserved in this process

Hypernyms (to "conserve" is one way to...):

hold; keep; maintain (cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., 'keep clean')

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

conservation ((physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

conserve; keep up; maintain; preserve

Context example:

The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts

Hypernyms (to "conserve" is one way to...):

keep (look after; be the keeper of; have charge of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conserve"):

embalm (preserve a dead body)

plastinate (preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes)

hold the line (hold the line on prices; keep the price of something constant)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

conservation (the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources)

conservation (an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Use cautiously and frugally

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

conserve; economise; economize; husband

Context example:

conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit

Hypernyms (to "conserve" is one way to...):

preserve; save (to keep up and reserve for personal or special use)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conserve"):

retrench (tighten one's belt; use resources carefully)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

waste (spend thoughtlessly; throw away)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Preserve with sugar

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Mom always conserved the strawberries we grew in the backyard

Hypernyms (to "conserve" is one way to...):

keep; preserve (prevent (food) from rotting)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

conserve (fruit preserved by cooking with sugar)

 Context examples 

Proteins that are related to bcl-2 are characterized by the presence of one or more highly conserved stretches of homology with bcl-2, designated BH1, BH2, BH3, BH4.

(Bcl-2 Homology Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

These pathways are highly conserved throughout the Gram-negative bacterial species.

(Bacterial Secretion System Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Encoded by widely expressed human BCL7A Gene, 231-aa 25-kD serine-rich BCL7A Protein has 90% sequence identity (N-terminal 51-aa) with BCL7B and BCL7C; possible members of an evolutionarily conserved family.

(BCL7A Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Found in proteins that regulate apoptosis, conserved a-helix BCL-2 Homology (BH1-4) Domains are critical to protein apoptotic function and the protein ability to interact/dimerize with other family members or regulatory proteins.

(BH1 Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Containing perfectly conserved histidine and cysteines residues. the BIR domain is about 70 residues long arranged in tandem repeats separated by a linker of variable length.

(BIR Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

The parasympathetic nervous system generally acts to conserve resources and restore homeostasis, often with effects reciprocal to the sympathetic nervous system.

(Parasympathetic nervous system, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The patched pathway is conserved from fly to vertebrates.

(Patched Homolog 2, NCI Thesaurus)

The Notch signaling pathway is an evolutionarily conserved, intercellular signaling mechanism essential for proper embryonic development in all metazoan organisms in the Animal kingdom.

(Notch Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

ARM repeats have a common phylogenetic origin with the HEAT repeat; both contain seven highly conserved hydrophobic residues.

(Armadillo Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)

Highly conserved peptide motifs of the HMG-I(Y) proteins that preferentially bind to the AT-rich minor groove of DNA.

(AT Hook Motif, NCI Thesaurus)