(a.) Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
(n.) That which preserves from injury.
(n.) A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants.
(n.) A public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music.
Example Sentences:
(1) The proposals had prompted an outcry among Tory backbenchers and were dubbed a "conservatory tax".
(2) The conservatory therapeutical means have limited indications, or results dependent on several parameters, and some methods require a special equipment.
(3) Grant Shapps has a great wheeze for getting to the top of any Google search and we're going to relax the planning laws to allow more conservatories … Clegg: Hello, Conference.
(4) Como Park Zoo and Conservatory came up with the idea in response to a common prank where people leave trick messages for friends from people named things like Don Key and Sally Mander, then including the phone number for the local zoo.
(5) "Had General Dostum gone to another ticket, my winning would have become theoretical," Ghani said in the conservatory of his understated home in west Kabul, shortly before the Helmand gathering.
(6) Like many Eurovision competitors, Inga and Anush are professionally trained; on this occasion their alma mater being the jazz-vocal department of the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan.
(7) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
(8) Bamboo, wooden mats, and discreetly placed artefacts dominate the interior, plus there's a long, sloping paved garden with a conservatory and a whiteboard for travellers to leave messages.
(9) Cerebral lateralization for music has been studied through a music-manual interference paradigm (tapping) in a group of young musicians (seven males and seven females) attending the 1st and 3rd intermediate grades of Udine's "J. Tomadini" State Conservatory of Music and in a group of graduated expert musicians or higher course students during the execution of three distinct tasks (singing notes, whistling a melody and singing a melody).
(10) The house in Turville Heath had acquired a conservatory, for Olivier to pot earwigs in the television version of Voyage.
(11) The vast majority of European conservatories offer tuition rates that are lower than current rates."
(12) It is a bit like someone constantly drawing down cash against their house, spending it on improvements and borrowing yet more on the basis that it could be sold for more, should someone fancy purchasing a 17-room mansion with an ugly side-return and triple-glazed conservatory.
(13) These days the food and the slick conservatory restaurant are a match for the views over this area of outstanding natural beauty.
(14) There is a small glass conservatory and garden where a cafe opens from March to October.
(15) On leaving school in 1974, Lepage applied for a place in the Quebec conservatory of music and drama.
(16) A further 16% of properties benefit from additional space through having a conservatory," Nationwide found.
(17) "A one-year holiday from the current rules on planning for a conservatory extension of up to eight metres into a garden does not represent an economic plan," he said.
(18) Recession of the inferior rectus in surface anaesthesia by 5% cocaine drops was performed in 8 patients with signs of hypotropia in the course of thyroid orbitopathia and with diplopia persisting after conservatory treatment and not corrected by prisms.
(19) Out of a total of 475 interventions for renal lithiasis, the author has performed only 15 partial nephrectomies, as compared with 118 total nephrectomies and 342 conservatory pyelotomies and nephrotomies.
(20) He had the house extended to add a conservatory at the back for a full-sized snooker table, and spent the rest of the day playing snooker or watching television.
Orangery
Definition:
(n.) A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children can play hide and seek in the fruit garden, orangery and orchard, or work off pent-up energy on the adventure playground and nature trails.
(2) Recover afterwards The Orangery cafe in Ham House is a good place to stop for a meal, made where possible with ingredients from the kitchen garden.
(3) Russian paper-architect Alexander Brodsky has dreamed up a poetic chess pavilion, Antarctica providing the perfect backdrop for the icy silence of the game, while Alexey Kozyr presents his Arctic Poppy Orangery, a high-tech greenhouse shaped like a snowflake.
(4) Free Villa Borghese Villa Borghese Photograph: Alamy The enormous Borghese park contains the Borghese Gallery , but also many other delightful buildings and follies, an artificial lake with a temple, an aviary, an orangery and much more in a carefully landscaped setting created in the English style for the Borghese family by the Scottish artist Jacob More in the 1770s.
(5) The Ethicurean, Wrington, near Bristol Created from the old orangery of an Edwardian walled garden, the Ethicurean (mains from £12) creates much of its menu from what it grows.