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CONSERVE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

Synonyms:

conserve; conserves; preserve; preserves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Preserve with sugar

Example:

Mom always conserved the strawberries we grew in the backyard

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Use cautiously and frugally

Example:

conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit

Synonyms:

conserve; economise; economize; husband

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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 3

Meaning:

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

Example:

The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts

Synonyms:

conserve; keep up; maintain; preserve

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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 4

Meaning:

Keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change

Example:

Energy is conserved in this process

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Reuptake not only terminates signaling, but can also conserve neurotransmitter through recycling back into the presynaptic cell.

(Attenuation of GPCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

As a highly conserved protein, OFA-iLRP is preferentially expressed in fetal tissues and in many types of cancer, including hematopoietic malignancies, but is not detectable in normal differentiated adult cells.

(Autologous OFA-iLRP RNA-Transfected Dendritic Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

This group of proteins is characterized by a polybasic proteolytic processing site which is cleaved to produce a mature protein containing seven conserved cysteine residues.

(Bone Morphogenetic Protein 3B, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

An N-terminal ATP-binding site (P-loop) of Guanylate Kinase is not conserved in the MAGUK GK-like domain; MAGUKs do retain residues known in GK to bind GMP.

(Membrane-Associated Guanylate Kinase Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Found as one or multiple copies of a conserved 70-aa motif in diverse nucleic acid binding, and other, proteins, the KH domain binds RNA; each motif appears necessary for binding.

(NOVA Family, NCI Thesaurus)

Lamins are highly conserved in evolution and members of the intermediate filament protein family.

(Nuclear Lamina, NCI Thesaurus)

Two cysteines in the catalytic domain (one absolutely required for activity) are generally conserved; other conserved residues in the vicinity are important.

(Non-Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The kinase domain includes an ATP-binding site and many conserved tyrosine kinase features.

(Non-Receptor Tyrosine Kinase 1, NCI Thesaurus)

A component of an evolutionarily conserved intercellular signaling mechanism, NOTCH4 is expressed in a variety of tissues and appears to regulate cell fate decisions during embryonic vascular morphogenesis and remodeling.

(Notch4 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The C-terminal leucine zipper and ribosomal S14 motif are not conserved in plant and nematode proteins.

(Neuroblastoma-Amplified Sequence, NCI Thesaurus)