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Preserver

Preserver \Pre*serv"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another.
    --Shak.

  2. One who makes preserves of fruit.

    Game preserver. See under Game.

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preserver

n. 1 One who preserves. 2 A life preserver 3 A person who refinishes furniture. 4 A person who prepares preserves of fruit or preserved meats.

WordNet
preserver
  1. n. a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture [syn: refinisher, renovator, restorer]

  2. a cook who preserves fruits or meat

  3. someone who keeps safe from harm or danger

  4. rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning [syn: life preserver, flotation device]

Wikipedia
Preserver

Preserver can refer to:

  • Life preserver, a personal flotation device or lifebuoy
  • , a Canadian navy ship

    • , Protecteur-class supply ship

    • , leadship of the Fairmile-support depot ships

  • , a U.S. navy ship

  • Preserver (Elfquest), a race in the fantasy comic Elfquest
  • Preservers (Star Trek), a Star Trek species
  • Preserver (Star Trek), a novel by William Shatner
Preserver (novel)

Preserver is a novel by William Shatner, co-written with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, based upon the television series Star Trek. The novel was released in 2000 in hardcover format. This is the conclusion of a trilogy that began with Spectre and Dark Victory.

Usage examples of "preserver".

Subtly altered, those places had become the nodes where the tiny machines could excyst and begin to amplify complexity into true consciousness, the change which was the miraculous gift of the Preservers, the miracle with which he had been entrusted.

Vulcan by that strange peripatetic species called the Preservers, perhaps not.

He did not attend any high day services, although he was a frequent visitor to the temple, playing chess with Father Quine and spending hours debating the nature of the Preservers and the world.

When he saw me he threw his arms about my neck, calling me his preserver.

Surely, he thought, the Preservers had not created the world so that it would repeat the same stories in a series of futile cycles, like a book read again and again by an uncomprehending idiot.

The most popular forms or manifestations of Vishnu the Preserver, were his successive avataras or historic impersonations, which represented the Deity coming forth out of the incomprehensible mystery of His nature, and revealing Himself at those critical epochs which either in the physical or moral world seemed to mark a new commencement of prosperity and order.

Already he hung over the bombsight like a drowning man over a life preserver, wiping his eyes with his sleeves while staring down into the aiming viewer.

But these brief interregna were nothing compared to the billions of years of nonbeing between now and the end of the Universe, and the machineries which stored her self and gave her rebirth time and time again were real in a way that the Preservers were not.

Jones into the dining-room, she threw herself at his feet, and in a most passionate flood of tears, called him her good angel, the preserver of her poor little family, with many other respectful and endearing appellations, and made him every acknowledgment which the highest benefit can extract from the most grateful heart.

Again Betty threw herself on her knees, begging him to calm himself, as I was her preserver not her betrayer.

Pity not being stirred, her admiration of the hero declared victorious, whose fortunes in uncertainty had stopped the beating of her heart, was eclipsed by gratitude toward his preserver, and a sentiment eclipsed becomes temporarily coldish, against our wish and our efforts, in a way to astonish.

Crosin, how I had been able to be of service to her, and finally, how she had had the good luck to meet a wealthy and distinguished person, who would come to Marseilles to ask her hand in a fortnight, I concluded by saying that I should have the happiness of restoring to her hands the dear girl whose preserver I had been.

Priorities My highest priorities for USAF in Korea were aircrew parachutes, aircraft emergency life preservers, aircrew emergency bailout survival kits (attached to parachute harnesses), oxygen masks, and components ('components,' for instance, took into account that inflatable life preservers are not much help to an aircrew member floating in the sea if the CO2 inflation cartridges had not been checked and installed or had been discharged for an unauthorized purpose.

We've never risen above our animal selves since the Preservers gave us the banyans as our province, and that is the excuse the Mud People use when they hunt us.

The Preservers brought light that melted the ice and woke the seeds of the banyans which were trapped there.