conserve
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
fruit preserved by cooking with sugar
Types & categories
- confiture hypernym
- apple butter hyponym
- chowchow hyponym
- jam hyponym
- lemon curd hyponym
- jelly hyponym
- marmalade hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change
Energy is conserved in this process
Types & categories
- hold hypernym
Related & opposite
- conservation derivation
Sense 3 verb
keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
We preserve these archeological findings
Types & categories
- keep hypernym
- embalm hyponym
- plastinate hyponym
- hold the line hyponym
Related & opposite
- maintenance derivation
- preservation derivation
- conservation derivation
- conservation derivation
- preservative derivation
Sense 4 verb
use cautiously and frugally
I try to economize my spare time
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- waste antonym
- saving derivation
- thriftiness derivation
- economy derivation
- economizer derivation
Sense 5 verb
preserve with sugar
Mom always conserved the strawberries we grew in the backyard
Types & categories
- preserve hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | conserve |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | preserve |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | confiture |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | apple butter |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | chowchow |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | jam |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | lemon curd |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | jelly |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | marmalade |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | conservation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | hold |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | maintenance |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | preservation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | conservation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | conservation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | preservative |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | keep |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | embalm |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | plastinate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | hold the line |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | waste |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | saving |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | thriftiness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | economy |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | economizer |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | save |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | retrench |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | conserve |
| 5 | domain topic | Related & opposite | cooking |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | preserve |