<B>preservation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of preserving; keeping safe. <BR> <I>Ex. Doctors work for the preservation of our health.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact or condition of being preserved; being kept safe. <BR> <I>Ex. Egyptian mummies have been in a state of preservation for thousands of years. They [the villas] contain frescoes ... worthy of preservation (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
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<B>preservationist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who believes in and advocates preservation of traditional things. <BR> <I>Ex. Then there are the total preservationists who would permanently maintain these significant examples even if they impede a sound new development (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>preservative, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> any substance that will prevent decay or injury. Paint is a preservative for wood surfaces. Salt is a preservative for meat. <DD><I>adj. </I> that preserves. </DL>
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<B>preservator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a person in charge of preserving a historic site or other landmark restoring it to its original form. <BR> <I>Ex. A Columbia University professor of architectural history will be named the first Preservator of Central Park (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>preservatory, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=preservative.</B> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B><B>=preservative.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>an apparatus for preserving substances for food. <DD><B> 3. </B>a place where the preserving of food products is carried on. </DL>
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<B>preserve, </B>verb, <B>-served,</B> <B>-serving,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to keep from harm or change; keep safe; protect. <BR> <I>Ex. those who wish to preserve the present order of society (Charles Kingsley).</I> (SYN) save, shield, guard. <DD><B> 2. </B>to keep up; maintain. <BR> <I>Ex. Mr. Travers preserved an immobility which struck D'Alcacer as obviously affected (Joseph Conrad).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to keep from spoiling. <BR> <I>Ex. Ice helps to preserve food.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to prepare (food) to keep it from spoiling. Boiling with sugar, salting, smoking, and pickling are different ways of preserving food. <DD><B> 5. </B>to protect (game or fish) for personal use. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Archaic.) to keep alive. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make preserves, especially of fruit. <DD><B> 2. </B>to raise and protect game for special use. <DD><I>noun </I> a place where wild animals, fish, or trees and plants are protected. <BR> <I>Ex. People are not allowed to hunt on the preserve.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>preserves,</B> </I>fruit or the like cooked with sugar and sealed from the air. <BR> <I>Ex. She made plum preserves.</I> </DL>
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<B>preserver, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that saves and protects from danger. Life preservers help to save people from drowning. </DL>
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<B>preset, </B>transitive verb, <B>-set,</B> <B>-setting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to set in advance. <BR> <I>Ex. If it is known in advance which elements are to be watched for, the instrument can be present so that only relevant wavelengths are scanned (A. Haslett).</I> </DL>
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<B>presettable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be preset. <BR> <I>Ex. ... FM equipment with five presettable station selectors--push the appropriate button and hear one of the five stations of your choice (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
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<B>preside, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-sided,</B> <B>-siding.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to hold the place of authority; have charge of a meeting. <BR> <I>Ex. Our principal will preside at our election of school officers.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to have authority; have control. <BR> <I>Ex. The manager presides over the business of this store.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to serve as hostess; receive and entertain guests. <BR> <I>Ex. Zachary Taylor's wife refused to attend social affairs. Her daughter, Betty Bliss, presided for her (Helen E. Marshall).</I> noun <B>presider.</B> </DL>
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<B>presidence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or function of presiding. <DD><B> 2. </B>the office of president. </DL>
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<B>presidency, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the office of president. <BR> <I>Ex. She was elected to the presidency of the Junior Club.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the time during which a president is in office. <DD><B> 3. </B>a local administrative board in the Mormon Church. <DD><B> 4. </B>Often, <B>Presidency.</B> one of three former administrative divisions (Madras, Bombay, and originally, Bengal) of British India. </DL>
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<B>Presidency, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the office of President of the United States. <BR> <I>Ex. to seek the Presidency. As Mr. Eisenhower completed his third year in the Presidency, his intimates ticked off the changes that had taken place in the man (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the time of office of a President. <BR> <I>Ex. The United States entered World War II in the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.</I> </DL>
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<B>president, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the chief officer of a company, corporation, college, society, or club. <BR> <I>Ex. a bank president, the president of Columbia University.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the highest executive officer of a republic. <BR> <I>Ex. the president of Argentina.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the chief ofstate in a republic with a parliamentary government which is headed by a prime minister. <BR> <I>Ex. The duties of the president of Israel are largely ceremonial.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the presiding officer of a city council or other governmental body. <BR> <I>Ex. New York City has five borough presidents.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a person who presides at a meeting or assembly; chairman. <BR> <I>Ex. The vice-president of the United States is president of the Senate.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>the chief officer of the Mormon hierarchy. <DD><B> 7. </B>the mayor of a town or city in Mexico. </DL>
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<B>President, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the highest executive officer and chief of state of the United States. <BR> <I>Ex. They wanted a President who would stand above petty partisanship, who would be a President of all the people (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the highest executive officer of any republic, especially in South America, Italy, and France. </DL>
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<B>president-elect, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a president who has been elected but not yet inaugurated. </DL>
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<B>presidential, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a president or presidency. <BR> <I>Ex. a presidential election.</I> adv. <B>presidentially.</B> </DL>
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<B>presidential government,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a system of government in which the president has strong powers to function as head of the government, independent of the legislature. Both Mexico and the United States have presidential government. </DL>
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<B>Presidential Medal of Freedom,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a decoration given by the United States to a civilian, or to a member of the armed forces of a friendly nation. </DL>
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<B>presidential primary,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a direct primary that allows voters to express their preference for presidential candidates by voting for the presidential nominees or for delegates to party conventions pledged to particular nominees. </DL>
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<B>president pro tem</B> or <B>president pro tempore,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a United States senator who is elected by members of the Senate to act as temporary president in the absence of the Vice-President, who is the permanent president of the Senate. The president pro tem is a member of the majority party and he is fourth in the line of succession to the Presidency, after the Speaker of the House and the Vice-President. </DL>
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<B>presidentship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the office or function of a president; presidency. <DD><B> 2. </B>the term of office of a president. </DL>
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<B>presidial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with a garrison. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with a presidio. </DL>
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<B>presidiary, </B>adjective. =presidial.</DL>
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<B>presiding elder,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a former title of a district superintendent in the Methodist Church, a clergyman who supervises a number of churches and makes recommendations to the bishop. </DL>
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<B>presidio, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ios.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a garrisoned fort or military post in Spanish America or, during the period of Spanish or Mexican control, in the southwestern United States and California. <BR> <I>Ex. An expedition led by Captain Gaspar de Portola ... established presidios, or military forts, at the site of San Diego (George Shaftel).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a Spanish penal settlement in a colony or other Spanish possession. </DL>
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<B>precensorship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act, process, or practice of precensoring a publication, motion picture, television program, or news release. <BR> <I>Ex. Today's issue was subjected to precensorship by the State Prosecutor's Office (Guardian).</I> </DL>
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<B>presidium, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ia.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a group of people elected by a body to serve as its executive or administrative committee. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a member of the presidium of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>Also, <B>Presidium.</B> an executive committee, usually permanent, in the government of a Communist country which acts for the legislature or makes the laws that the legislature ratifies. </DL>
<B>presoak</B> or <B>pre-soak, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a stain-removing substance put into water to soak laundry before washing. <BR> <I>Ex. The difference between a pre-soak and a detergent is mainly a difference in the concentration of active ingredients. However, both products contain essentially the same ingredients--enzymes, phosphates, and surfactant, a cleaning agent (Time).</I> <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to soak beforehand. <BR> <I>Ex. After pre-soaking in a processing solution, the ... film is placed in face contact with the exposed negative (George T. Eaton).</I> </DL>
