Preserve

Definition

preserve 1 /prÇ'zɜ:v/ v ၁။ (က) မူလအေျခအေနကို ထိန္းသိမ္း ထားသည္။ preserving old aircraft/the English countryside ❍ preserve the value of an investment ❍Efforts to preserve the peace have failed. ❍ This vase has been preserved intact. (ခ) (ယိုထိုးျခင္း၊ ဆားစိမ္ျခင္း၊ ေဆးစိမ္ျခင္း စသည္ျဖင့္) တာရွည္ခံေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ apricots preserved in syrup ❍ preserve a dead body by embalming it ❍ Wax polish preserves wood and leather. ဖေယာင္း အေရာင္တင္ ေဆးသည္ သစ္ႏွင့္ သားေရကို တာရွည္ခံေစသည္။ ၂။ ~ sb/sth (from sth) ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ထားသည္။ preserve endangered species (from extinction). ၃။ ထိန္းထား(ႏိုင္) သည္။ She managed to preserve her sense of humour in a difficult situation. Compare CONSERVE ❏ preserver n [C, U] တာရွည္ခံေစေသာအရာ။ ေဘးရန္မွ ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေပးသူ။ treat the garden fence with (a) wood preserver. preserve 2 /prÇ'zɜ:v/ n ၁။ [C] (တစ္ဦးဦး/ အုပ္စုတစ္စု၏) လိမၼာ ရာ၊ ကြၽမ္းက်င္ရာ လုပ္ငန္း၊ စားက်က္။ She regards negotiating prices with customers as her special preserve. ❍ Fishing is a traditionally male preserve. ၂။ [U, C] (fml) ယို။ strawberry preserve. Compare CONSERVE n

Examples

1. The society works to preserve the district’s historic buildings.
2. [beautifully/perfectly/carefully preserved] : A beautifully preserved fresco
3. It’s important that these traditions are preserved.
4. Our goal is to preserve the dignity and independence of our patients.
5. He’s managed to preserve his boyish good looks.