Preservative meaning

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Tending to preserve or capable of preserving.
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Something used to preserve, especially a chemical added to foods to inhibit spoilage.
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Having the quality of preserving.
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Anything that preserves; esp., a substance added to a food to keep it from spoiling.
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Tending to preserve or capable of preserving.
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Something used to preserve, especially a chemical added to foods to inhibit spoilage.
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(countable) Any agent, natural or artificial that acts to preserve, especially when added to food.

Salt, sugar, and acid all act as preservatives when making pickles.

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Tending to preserve.

The curators took preservative actions to maintain the ancient collection.

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Sentence Examples

  • A great number of preservative processes have been devised.

  • The preservative climate of Upper Egypt and the belief of the Egyptians in life after death must be the causes which led them to take unusual care for preserving the bodies of their dead.

  • 19) is easily understood; it is probable, however, that the preservative qualities of salt were held to make it a peculiarly fitting symbol of an enduring compact, and influenced the choice of this particular element of the covenant meal as that which was regarded as sealing an obligation to fidelity.

  • In 1716, in reply to George Hickes, he published a Preservative against the Principles and Practices of Nonjurors in Church and State, and in the following year preached before the king his famous sermon on the Kingdom of Christ, which was immediately published by royal command.

  • Exploration and Research.Owing to its early development of a high civilization with written records, its wealth, and its preservative climate, Egypt is the country which most amply repays archaeological research.

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