preservations
Acts of safeguarding
Preservations is the plural of preservation, the act of keeping something safe from harm, decay, or destruction.
The word appears in contexts involving multiple instances or types of protective effort: The museum oversees the preservations of artifacts from different eras.
More often, preservation serves as an uncountable noun, making this plural relatively uncommon outside technical or formal writing.
Vegetables preserved in brine
- jamsCooked fruit spreads
- jelliesStrained fruit preserves
- canningAirtight food preservation
- fermentationMicrobial sugar conversion
brining · smoking · curing · drying · salting · jarring · marmalade · chutney
Long-established customs passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
ceremonies · artifacts · monuments · landmarks · antiquities · heirlooms · relics · archives
Stored historical documents
- chroniclesSequential historical accounts
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
- relicsPreserved items from antiquity
- excavationAct of unearthing
archaeology · curator · museum · monuments · inscriptions · manuscripts · codices · fossils
Preserving animal skins lifelike
- mummiesPreserved wrapped bodies
- fossilsPreserved ancient organism traces
- embalmingPreserving dead bodies chemically
- formaldehydeColorless pungent preservative gas
specimens · herbarium · pinning · mounting · freeze-drying · plastination · entomology · natural history
Light-captured images
- filmsProjected motion pictures
- recordingsStored audio or video
- negativesUnfavorable aspects or refusals
- reelsCylindrical winding devices
tapes · digitization · restoration · colorization · remastering · acetate · nitrate film · magnetic tape
pickles
Vegetables preserved in brine
fermentation · brining · smoking · curing · drying · salting · jarring · marmalade · chutney · kimchi
traditions
Long-established customs passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
rituals · ceremonies · artifacts · monuments · landmarks · antiquities · heirlooms · relics · archives · ancestry
archives
Stored historical documents
- chroniclesSequential historical accounts
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
- relicsPreserved items from antiquity
excavation · archaeology · curator · museum · monuments · inscriptions · manuscripts · codices · fossils · chronology
taxidermy
Preserving animal skins lifelike
- mummiesPreserved wrapped bodies
- fossilsPreserved ancient organism traces
- embalmingPreserving dead bodies chemically
formaldehyde · specimens · herbarium · pinning · mounting · freeze-drying · plastination · entomology · natural history · dioramas
photographs
Light-captured images
- filmsProjected motion pictures
- recordingsStored audio or video
- negativesUnfavorable aspects or refusals
reels · tapes · digitization · restoration · colorization · remastering · acetate · nitrate film · magnetic tape · climate control
preservationsdestructions
Acts of obliterating completely
ruins · devastations · demolitions · damages · degradations
preservationsabolitions
Formal discontinuations of systems
eliminations · annihilations · eradications · obliterations · extinctions
preservationsneglects
Fails to care for
abandonments · disregards · derelictions · desertions · forsaking
- forest preservationProtecting extensive tree ecosystems
- heritage preservationProtecting historical and cultural assets
- fruit preservationMethods to store produce
- food preservationProtecting edibles from rot
- wildlife preservationProtecting wild species and habitats
- nature preservationProtecting wilderness from degradation