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# preserves

«preserves» in Mova's school dictionary: **Jam, jelly or fruit cooked with sugar and kept in jars** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun, plural (preserves); verb (preserve, preserves, preserved, preserving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) Jam, jelly or fruit cooked with sugar and kept in jars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preserves/#m1)

2) (verb, he/she preserves) Keeps something safe, unharmed or from going bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preserves/#m2)

3) (noun) An area kept for one group or use: a nature preserve; «Football was the boys' preserve.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preserves/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, Grandma makes preserves from berries; salt, sugar, freezing and drying preserve food. In science and history, ice preserves mammoths and amber preserves insects. Phrases: preserves food, preserves wildlife.

### examples

- Grandma's strawberry preserves are the best. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preserves/#x1)
- Salt preserves fish so it doesn't rot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preserves/#x2)
- The freezer preserves food for months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preserves/#x3)
- Amber preserves tiny insects for millions of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preserves/#x4)
- The park preserves rare birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preserves/#x5)
- We bought apricot preserves at the market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preserves/#x6)
- The old man now went into the other room to fetch preserves, apples, and nuts--yes, it was delightful over there in the old house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preserves/#x7)

### note

As a noun it is usually plural. As a verb it is the he/she/it form. Noun: preservation; preservative is a chemical that keeps food fresh.

### Trees and pragmatics

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