单词 | conserved |
释义 | conservedadj. 1. a. Of fruit, etc.: preserved in sugar or the like; made into a conserve or conserves. ΚΠ 1603 A. Willet Antilogie to Apologicall Epist. 33 They [sc. fasting Papists] will eate no flesh, but marmelade,..spiced cakes, wine, all manner of conserued and preserued dainties. 1706 J. Green Diary 20 June in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1869) X. 74 Made conserved roses. 1785 tr. F. de Tott Memoirs I. ii. 35 Sherbet, so much talked of in Europe, and so little known, is made of conserved fruits dissolved in water. 1899 Indiana (Pa.) Progress 26 Aug. Conserved fruit is prepared as follows, and the homemade preparation is far more tasty than the confectioner's. 1936 Chester (Pa.) Times 9 July 15/3 (advt.) Great variety of nuts and conserved fruits dipped with an extra thick coating of sweet chocolate. 1998 C. Barker Galilee vi. xii. 381 There was a wine soufflé for dessert, and..conserved peaches. b. gen. That has been conserved (in senses of the verb); kept in existence; preserved from damage or destruction. Also with modifying adverb, as well, badly, etc.Cf. also well conserved adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [adjective] > preserved or undestroyed > preserved from decay, loss, or destruction preserved1552 nice preserved1594 seasoned1644 conserved1662 hained1786 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [adjective] > conserved preserved1552 conserved1832 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [adjective] > preserved in being or use > specifically of institutions or conditions conserved1832 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 63 Provided the [engraved] impressions be black, well conserved, of equal force, and not counterfeit. 1684 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 138 The leaf you sent [is] a perfect one and well conserved. 1832 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. 5 254 The concentrated or conserved essence of what men can speak and shew. 1880 T. Hardy Trumpet-major II. xxviii. 270 With the conserved hope of more than half a year. 1951 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 45 713 The Japanese Government will..prohibit their resident nationals and vessels from carrying on fishing operations in presently conserved fisheries. 1986 A. Ravetz Govt. of Space iii. 65 Conserved environments..were often praised for their human scale. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Dec. a23/3 As these three portraits were removed, three newly conserved paintings were returned. 2. Taxonomy. Of a scientific name: having the status of a nomen conservandum (see nomen conservandum n.). ΚΠ 1926 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) No. 3. 129 The rejected names are printed in italics, and are followed by the corresponding conserved ones in roman type. 1956 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 43 141/1 The present author would like to suggest to taxonomists..that at least the three Smilacina species here studied..be transferred to the genus Maianthemum, since this is the conserved name under which Link in 1821 included the two former of these species. 2004 W. Snoeijer Agapanthus v. 59 Agapanthus is a conserved genus name. 3. Molecular Biology. Of (a part of) a nucleic acid or protein molecule: showing little or no variation from one class, individual, organism, etc., to another (usually indicative of similar functional significance or evolutionary preservation). ΚΠ 1965 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 54 491 (title) Gene conservation in Bacillus species, I. Conserved genetic and nucleic acid base sequence homologies. 1973 Nature New Biol. 31 Oct. 261/2 The complement of the conserved sequence, UAAUGAUC, immediately suggests an important function in protein synthesis. 1990 EMBO Jrnl. 9 2518/1 This conserved domain is required for DNA-binding and subunit dimerization. 2004 B. Alberts et al. Ess. Cell Biol. (ed. 2) A23 Ribsosomal RNAs (and the products of most highly conserved genes) participate in fundamental processes that were optimized early. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1603 |
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