PRESERVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preserved mean? 

• PRESERVED (adjective)
  The adjective PRESERVED has 2 senses:

1. prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use

2. kept intact or in a particular condition

  Familiarity information: PRESERVED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESERVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use

Similar:

sun-dried; sundried (dried naturally by the sun)

smoke-cured; smoke-dried; smoked ((used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke)

brine-cured; salt-cured; salted ((used especially of meats) preserved in salt)

potted (preserved in a pot or can or jar)

pickled ((used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid)

freeze-dried; lyophilised; lyophilized (used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum)

freeze-dried (preserved by freezing and drying in a vacuum)

flash-frozen; frozen; quick-frozen ((used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value)

dehydrated; desiccated; dried (preserved by removing natural moisture)

cured ((used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry)

corned; cured ((used especially of meat) cured in brine)

canned; tinned (sealed in a can or jar)

candied; crystalised; crystalized; glace ((used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar)

aged; cured ((used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process ('aged' is pronounced as one syllable))

Antonym:

fresh (not canned or otherwise preserved)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Kept intact or in a particular condition

Similar:

kept up; maintained; well-kept (kept in good condition)

preservable (capable of being preserved)

protected; saved (guarded from injury or destruction)

maintained; retained (continued in your keeping or use or memory)

conserved (protected from harm or loss)

Antonym:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

 Context examples 

A small percentage of organic carbon is not broken down by microbes, but instead stays preserved underground for millions of years.

(Carbon hides in sediment, keeping oxygen in atmosphere, National Science Foundation)

During sleep, brain MEG responses demonstrated preserved detection of isolated sounds, but no response reflecting statistical clustering.

(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

She had evidently been a handsome woman, and was well preserved still.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

How water ice could be preserved there is a mystery.

(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)

Sherlock Holmes preserved his calm professional manner until our visitor had left us, although it was easy for me, who knew him so well, to see that he was profoundly excited.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our cognitive function tends to decline as we get older, but previous research has shown that cognitive function is better preserved in healthy older adults with a diet rich in plant-based foods.

(Blueberry Concentrate Improves Brain Function in Older People, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The scientists said a scrap of skin also found suggests another snake, and bits of plant and insect matter indicate the area may have been forest at the time the snake was preserved.

(Cretaceous baby snake fossil found in Myanmar, Wikinews)

The overall lobular architecture is preserved.

(Lobular Breast Carcinoma In Situ, NCI Thesaurus)

In this new finding, in addition to the surprising discovery of over 300 eggs, an unprecedented 16 embryos with preserved eggs in three dimensions were unearthed.

(Brazil and China scientists unearth pterosaur eggs with preserved embryos, Agência Brasil)

A thin slice of fixative-preserved tissue mounted on a slide for microscopic examination.

(Permanent Section, NCI Thesaurus)