All 9 Uses
preserve
in
Jurassic Park
(Edited)
- Supposedly to set up a biological preserve.
p. 39.3preserve = a place where conditions are maintained to protect wildlife
- When we remove fossils that are broken or for some other reason not suitable for museum preservation, we send the bones out to a lab that grinds them up and tries to extract proteins for us.
p. 44.9preservation = protection
- And infant-dinosaur bones were so fragile. She marveled that they had been preserved at all, after eighty million years.
p. 46.3preserved = kept as they were
- Going to be a biological preserve.
p. 51.2preserve = a place where conditions are maintained to protect wildlife
- Up the coast there, you see the Cabo Blanco preserve.
p. 85.4preserve = a place where conditions are kept as they were to protect wildlife
- Making it the largest private animal preserve in North America.
p. 85.9 *preserve = protected wildlife area
- Of course, if a dinosaur was frozen, or preserved in a peat bog, or mummified in a desert environment, then its DNA might be recoverable.
p. 95.3preserved = kept as it was
- The insects are then perfectly preserved within the fossil.
p. 111.4preserved = kept as they were
- And then the insects are preserved in amber….
p. 111.6 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(preserve as in: preserve the records) to protect something or to keep it as it is
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(2)
(preserve as in: preserve the peaches) to prepare food in a way that keeps it from spoiling
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(3)
(preserve as in: a wildlife preserve) protected wildlife area
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(4)
(preserve as in: no longer a male preserve) something exclusive to (someone or some group) -- such as an activity or place
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(5)
(preserves as in: mom made preserves) chunks of fruit cooked with sugar (like jam) and sealed (usually in a mason jar) so it will not spoil
- (6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)