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noun
noun
- preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.
- a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file
- the entering of a legal document into the public record
- the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
- Something that has been officially filed; a document on file.
- The act of storing documents in an archive; archiving.
- Any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving.
verb
noun
- The state of being preserved, how something has survived.
- the condition of being (well or ill) preserved
- The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
- a process that saves organic substances from decay
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
- an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
noun
- One who preserves.
- A person who prepares preserves of fruit or preserved meats.
- A person who refinishes furniture.
- A life preserver.
- a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture
- someone who keeps safe from harm or danger
- rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning
- a cook who preserves fruits or meat
adj
noun
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) A glass-walled and -roofed room in a house
- A large greenhouse or hothouse for the display of plants
- A storehouse.
- A music school or a drama school
- a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
- the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts
- a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts
noun
adj
- Preserving; rescuing.
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- Making reservation or exception.
- (in compounds) Relating to making a saving.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- Thrifty; frugal.
- bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
- characterized by thriftiness
noun
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
prep
verb
noun
verb
- To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.
- To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated.
- To keep (something) in the mind; to recall, to remember.
- To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
- To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also, (chiefly historical) to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
- (chiefly law) To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a retainer (“fee one pays to reserve another person's time for services”); specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.
- Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.
- Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
- To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
- (education) To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.
- (medicine) Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
- (reflexive) To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
- (medicine) To hold back (tissue or a substance, especially urine) in the body or a body organ.
- To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.
- (Christianity) To declare (a sin) not forgiven.
- To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep in one's mind
- hold back within
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
adj
noun
verb
adj
- retained; not shed
- stubbornly unyielding
- never-ceasing
- continually recurring to the mind
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
- (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- Insistently repetitive.
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Indefinitely continuous.
- (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
verb
noun
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
- (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
- a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
adj
- in keeping
- prepared to agree or consent
- conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature
- Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with.
- Pleasant to the senses or the mind; pleasing, satisfying, palatable.
- Able to agree; possible to be agreed.
- (used adverbially) Pursuant, conformant, accordant.
noun
adj
noun
- a speech sound that is not a vowel
- a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant
- (phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
- A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
noun
- the act of retaining something
- something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
- (sports) A foul consisting of impermissibly restricting the movement of an opposing player with the hands or stick.
- Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
- (in texts about Russia, nonstandard) A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian холдинг (xolding)).
- A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
- A determination of law made by a court.
verb
noun
- the act of retaining something
- The act of retaining or something retained.
- the power of retaining liquid
- the power of retaining and recalling past experience
- (law) The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.
- Memory; what is retained in the mind.
- (insurance) The portion of a potential damage that must be paid for by the holder of an insurance policy.
- The act or power of remembering things.
- (medicine) The length of time a patient remains in treatment.
- (medicine) The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces.
noun
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another
- the act of delivering a child
- the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- the event of giving birth
- your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
- The item which has been conveyed.
- (baseball) A thrown pitch.
- The act of conveying something.
- (medicine) The administration of a drug.
- (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.
- (soccer) A cross or pass
- The manner of speaking or singing.
- (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
- (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.
- (baseball) A pitching motion.
- (cricket) A ball bowled.
noun
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
- A liberation, freeing.
- A rescuee.
- The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
- (law, largely obsolete) The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
- An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
verb
- free from harm or evil
- take forcibly from legal custody
- To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.
- To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
- To adopt (an animal).
- To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
- To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
- (biology, genetics) To restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation.
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
adj
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- Cautious, moderate.
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- unimaginatively conventional
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
- avoiding excess
noun
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
verb
- be or become preserved
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability
- provide a cure for, make healthy again
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
- (intransitive) To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
- (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
- (transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
- (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
- (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
- (transitive) To restore to health.
- To preserve (food), typically by salting.
noun
- A process of preservation, as by smoking.
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- Cured fish.
- (figurative) A solution to a problem.
- An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
- Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
- A process of solidification or gelling.
- (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
- A method, device or medication that restores good health.
- That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
adj
noun
- The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
- (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
- Wise use of natural resources.
- (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
- (physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
- (biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
- the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
- an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
- (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
noun
- container for preserving historical records to be discovered at some future time
- (figuratively) An object, place, or collection that encapsulates and preserves the characteristics, culture or essence of a particular time period, usually due to isolation or some specific external influence.
- A sealed container, buried at a specific location, that contains records of contemporary life, to be rediscovered in the distant future.
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To maintain; to preserve; to prevent from deteriorating or falling.
- To prevent someone from going to bed or to sleep
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To stay even or ahead.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To continue with (work, etc).
- To ensure that one remains well-informed about something.
- lengthen or extend in duration or space
- prevent from going to bed at night
- keep informed
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- maintain a required pace or level
verb
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- continue talking
- misbehave badly; act in a silly or improper way
- direct the course of; manage or control
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To persist, persevere.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To talk continuously or prolongedly (about something), often in an excessively excited way.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To continue, maintain or pursue (an activity or enterprise).
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To have an illicit sexual or flirtatious relationship.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To act or behave; especially, to misbehave so as to attract attention; to make a fuss; to behave ostentatiously.
- (idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To continue or proceed as before.
noun
verb
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop
- continue after an interruption
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- exist over a prolonged period of time
- move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- continue talking
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
- (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
- (intransitive) To resume.
- (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
- (intransitive, copulative sense obsolete) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
- (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
- (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
noun
verb
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- To maintain throughout; to keep intact.
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing
- prevent (food) from rotting
- To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.
- To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
noun
verb
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals
- support against an opponent
- To support by approval or encouragement; to vindicate; to confirm (something which has been questioned)
- To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
- To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
noun
- That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.
- (modular arithmetic) A representative element of an equivalence class modulo some base, conventionally in the half-open interval from zero to the base; the nonnegative remainder after dividing a number by a base.
- (biochemistry) A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
- (law) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
- (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
- (complex analysis) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- matter that remains after something has been removed
verb
- To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
- To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.
- To keep in good condition and working order.
- have and exercise
- maintain for use and service
- state categorically
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- supply with necessities and support
- support against an opponent
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- state or assert
noun
- a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness
- The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.
- saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation
- (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
- the state of being saved or preserved from harm
- (often with allusion to the previous sense) The act of saving, rescuing (in any context), providing needed safety or liberation; something that does this.
- (religion) The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).
verb
noun
noun
- preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.
- a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file
- the entering of a legal document into the public record
- the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
- Something that has been officially filed; a document on file.
- The act of storing documents in an archive; archiving.
- Any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving.
verb
noun
- The state of being preserved, how something has survived.
- the condition of being (well or ill) preserved
- The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
- a process that saves organic substances from decay
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
- an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
noun
- One who preserves.
- A person who prepares preserves of fruit or preserved meats.
- A person who refinishes furniture.
- A life preserver.
- a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture
- someone who keeps safe from harm or danger
- rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning
- a cook who preserves fruits or meat
noun
noun
noun
- the act of retaining something
- something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
- (sports) A foul consisting of impermissibly restricting the movement of an opposing player with the hands or stick.
- Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
- (in texts about Russia, nonstandard) A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian холдинг (xolding)).
- A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
- A determination of law made by a court.
verb
noun
- the act of retaining something
- The act of retaining or something retained.
- the power of retaining liquid
- the power of retaining and recalling past experience
- (law) The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.
- Memory; what is retained in the mind.
- (insurance) The portion of a potential damage that must be paid for by the holder of an insurance policy.
- The act or power of remembering things.
- (medicine) The length of time a patient remains in treatment.
- (medicine) The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces.
adj
- Preserving; rescuing.
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- Making reservation or exception.
- (in compounds) Relating to making a saving.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- Thrifty; frugal.
- bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
- characterized by thriftiness
noun
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
prep
verb
noun
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another
- the act of delivering a child
- the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- the event of giving birth
- your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
- The item which has been conveyed.
- (baseball) A thrown pitch.
- The act of conveying something.
- (medicine) The administration of a drug.
- (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.
- (soccer) A cross or pass
- The manner of speaking or singing.
- (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
- (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.
- (baseball) A pitching motion.
- (cricket) A ball bowled.
noun
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
- A liberation, freeing.
- A rescuee.
- The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
- (law, largely obsolete) The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
- An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
verb
- free from harm or evil
- take forcibly from legal custody
- To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.
- To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
- To adopt (an animal).
- To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
- To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
- (biology, genetics) To restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation.
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
noun
- The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
- (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
- Wise use of natural resources.
- (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
- (physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
- (biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
- the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
- an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
- (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
noun
- container for preserving historical records to be discovered at some future time
- (figuratively) An object, place, or collection that encapsulates and preserves the characteristics, culture or essence of a particular time period, usually due to isolation or some specific external influence.
- A sealed container, buried at a specific location, that contains records of contemporary life, to be rediscovered in the distant future.
noun
noun
- That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.
- (modular arithmetic) A representative element of an equivalence class modulo some base, conventionally in the half-open interval from zero to the base; the nonnegative remainder after dividing a number by a base.
- (biochemistry) A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
- (law) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
- (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
- (complex analysis) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- matter that remains after something has been removed
noun
- a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness
- The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.
- saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation
- (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
- the state of being saved or preserved from harm
- (often with allusion to the previous sense) The act of saving, rescuing (in any context), providing needed safety or liberation; something that does this.
- (religion) The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).
verb
verb
- be or become preserved
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability
- provide a cure for, make healthy again
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
- (intransitive) To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
- (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
- (transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
- (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
- (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
- (transitive) To restore to health.
- To preserve (food), typically by salting.
noun
- A process of preservation, as by smoking.
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- Cured fish.
- (figurative) A solution to a problem.
- An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
- Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
- A process of solidification or gelling.
- (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
- A method, device or medication that restores good health.
- That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
verb
- To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.
- To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated.
- To keep (something) in the mind; to recall, to remember.
- To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
- To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also, (chiefly historical) to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
- (chiefly law) To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a retainer (“fee one pays to reserve another person's time for services”); specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.
- Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.
- Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
- To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
- (education) To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.
- (medicine) Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
- (reflexive) To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
- (medicine) To hold back (tissue or a substance, especially urine) in the body or a body organ.
- To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.
- (Christianity) To declare (a sin) not forgiven.
- To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep in one's mind
- hold back within
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
verb
noun
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
- (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
- a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
verb
- be or become preserved
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability
- provide a cure for, make healthy again
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
- (intransitive) To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
- (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
- (transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
- (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
- (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
- (transitive) To restore to health.
- To preserve (food), typically by salting.
noun
- A process of preservation, as by smoking.
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- Cured fish.
- (figurative) A solution to a problem.
- An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
- Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
- A process of solidification or gelling.
- (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
- A method, device or medication that restores good health.
- That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To maintain; to preserve; to prevent from deteriorating or falling.
- To prevent someone from going to bed or to sleep
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To stay even or ahead.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To continue with (work, etc).
- To ensure that one remains well-informed about something.
- lengthen or extend in duration or space
- prevent from going to bed at night
- keep informed
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- maintain a required pace or level
verb
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- continue talking
- misbehave badly; act in a silly or improper way
- direct the course of; manage or control
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To persist, persevere.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To talk continuously or prolongedly (about something), often in an excessively excited way.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To continue, maintain or pursue (an activity or enterprise).
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To have an illicit sexual or flirtatious relationship.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To act or behave; especially, to misbehave so as to attract attention; to make a fuss; to behave ostentatiously.
- (idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To continue or proceed as before.
noun
verb
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop
- continue after an interruption
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- exist over a prolonged period of time
- move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- continue talking
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
- (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
- (intransitive) To resume.
- (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
- (intransitive, copulative sense obsolete) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
- (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
- (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
noun
verb
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- To maintain throughout; to keep intact.
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing
- prevent (food) from rotting
- To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.
- To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
noun
verb
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals
- support against an opponent
- To support by approval or encouragement; to vindicate; to confirm (something which has been questioned)
- To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
- To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
verb
- To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
- To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.
- To keep in good condition and working order.
- have and exercise
- maintain for use and service
- state categorically
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- supply with necessities and support
- support against an opponent
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- state or assert
adj
noun
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) A glass-walled and -roofed room in a house
- A large greenhouse or hothouse for the display of plants
- A storehouse.
- A music school or a drama school
- a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
- the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts
- a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts
adj
- Preserving; rescuing.
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- Making reservation or exception.
- (in compounds) Relating to making a saving.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- Thrifty; frugal.
- bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
- characterized by thriftiness
noun
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
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verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- retained; not shed
- stubbornly unyielding
- never-ceasing
- continually recurring to the mind
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
- (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- Insistently repetitive.
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Indefinitely continuous.
- (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
adj
- in keeping
- prepared to agree or consent
- conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature
- Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with.
- Pleasant to the senses or the mind; pleasing, satisfying, palatable.
- Able to agree; possible to be agreed.
- (used adverbially) Pursuant, conformant, accordant.
noun
adj
noun
- a speech sound that is not a vowel
- a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant
- (phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
- A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
adj
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- Cautious, moderate.
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- unimaginatively conventional
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
- avoiding excess
noun
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas