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# conserved

«conserved» in Mova's school dictionary: **Protected and kept safe from damage or being wasted, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (conserved); verb past form of conserve (conserve, conserves, conserved, conserving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Protected and kept safe from damage or being wasted, like conserved forests or conserved water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conserved/#m1)

2) (science) Staying the same in total, not being made or destroyed, as in "energy is conserved". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conserved/#m2)

3) (biology) Kept almost the same over a very long time in many living things, like a conserved gene. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conserved/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, "mass is conserved" in a chemical reaction and "energy is conserved". In geography and everyday life it means saved or protected. Phrases: "energy is conserved", "conserved area", "conserved for future".

### examples

- In a reaction, mass is conserved: nothing is lost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conserved/#x1)
- Energy is conserved; it just changes form. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conserved/#x2)
- The old painting was carefully conserved. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conserved/#x3)
- We conserved water by taking shorter showers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conserved/#x4)
- The wetland is conserved for birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conserved/#x5)
- Some genes are conserved in humans and fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conserved/#x6)

### note

Past form of "conserve" (one r, ends in -ed). In science, "conserved" means the total amount stays the same: if you start with 100 g of reactants, you end with 100 g of products. Noun: conservation.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conserved» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conserved/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.