✳ preserve (noun)

Sounds:
- /pɹəˈzɜːv/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /pɹəˈzɝv/ (General-American)

Forms:
- preserves (plural)

preserve (noun) senses:
1. A sweet spread made of any of a variety of fruits.
2. A reservation, a nature preserve.
3. An activity with restricted access.

✳ preserve (verb)

Forms:
- preserves (present, singular, third-person)
- preserving (participle, present)
- preserved (participle, past)
- preserved (past)

preserve (verb) senses:
1. To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
2. To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.
3. To maintain throughout; to keep intact.

Audio (US)

💡 Example 💡 sanjak

sanjak (noun): ... the Duke ... enforced all the whole Armie to retire to the Campe, with the losse of five or six thousand, with the Bashaw of Buda, and foure or five Zanzacks, with divers other great Commanders, two hundred Prisoners, and nine peeces of Ordnance.

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🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

I have cooked a delicious meal for dinner.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- The dinner is really rich.
- Which dish do you like most?
- I like the soy sauce chicken.
- Actually, it's the dish recommended by this restaurant specially.

🌜 Future Perfect Continuous 🌛

We will have been saving up for a new car for two years by the end of this year.

✳ or (conj)

Sounds:
- /ɔɹ/ (US)
- /ɑɹ/
- /ɔː(ɹ)/ (UK)
- /ɚ/ (US)
- /ə/ (UK)
- /əɹ/ (UK)

or (conj) senses:
1. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either […] or".
2. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
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✳ or (noun)

Forms:
- ors (plural)

or (noun) senses:
1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of OR
2. (heraldry) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
3. or:

✳ or (adj)

or (adj) senses:
1. (heraldry) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

✳ or (adv)

or (adv) senses:
1. (obsolete) Early (on).
2. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.

✳ or (prep)

or (prep) senses:
1. (now archaic or dialect) Before; ere. Followed by "ever" or "ere".

💡 Example 💡 sweetful

sweetful (adj): Swiftly the news, / The dolorous sad news, because ’twas sad, / To Athens came. It reached the queen as she / Sweetful reclined within her room, and mused / Upon the thwarting of her love:[…]

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Mom, can I have more allowance?
- What for?
- I want to buy more books.
- Oh, yeah? Are you joking?
- Of course not! I'm telling the truth.
- Honey, it's good if you spend money to buy more books. But $ 100 dollars a week is enough for you already.

🌜 Present Simple 🌛

She practices meditation for peace.