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Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
Bill Fagerbakke

Meaning of "life preserver" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LIFE PRESERVER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LIFE PRESERVER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Life preserver is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LIFE PRESERVER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of life preserver in the English dictionary

The definition of life preserver in the dictionary is a club or bludgeon, esp one kept for self-defence. Other definition of life preserver is a life belt or life jacket.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LIFE PRESERVER

life insurance
life interest
life jacket
life lesson
life mask
life member
life membership
life partner
life peer
life peerage
life president
life raft
life science
life sciences
life sentence
life space
life span
life story
life support
life table

WORDS THAT END LIKE LIFE PRESERVER

carver
conserver
deserver
file server
inertial observer
interobserver
mail server
marver
nerver
observer
preserver
process-server
proxy server
reserver
rootserver
server
swerver
timeserver
undeserver
woodcarver

Synonyms and antonyms of life preserver in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «life preserver» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LIFE PRESERVER

Find out the translation of life preserver to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of life preserver from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «life preserver» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

救生圈
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

salvavidas
570 millions of speakers

English

life preserver
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जीवन रक्षक पेटी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نجاة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

спасательный круг
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

colete salva-vidas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জীবন রক্ষাকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gilet de sauvetage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penjaga hidup
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rettungs
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

救命具
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

구명
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Urip preserver
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đồ cứu nguy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உயிர் பாதுகாப்பவர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जीवन प्रेक्षक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hayat koruyucu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

salvagente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ratownicze
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рятувальний круг
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

colac de salvare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σωσίβιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

reddingsboei
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flytväst
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

livredder
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of life preserver

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LIFE PRESERVER»

The term «life preserver» is normally little used and occupies the 115.008 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LIFE PRESERVER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «life preserver» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «life preserver» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about life preserver

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2 QUOTES WITH «LIFE PRESERVER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word life preserver.
1
Bill Fagerbakke
Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
2
Tom Waits
If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIFE PRESERVER»

Discover the use of life preserver in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to life preserver and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Children's Worker's Encyclopedia of Bible-teaching ...
Gather children and ask: • What5 s a life preserver ring used for on a boat? • What might happen if you don't have a life preserver ring when you need one? Say: Life preservers can save our lives if we're drowning. Did you know that Jesus is ...
Group, Group Publishing, 1997
2
Weekly World News
July 15. The man reported he saw a small white dot several hundred feet off the starboard bow and when he looked at it through binoculars, he saw it was a life preserver with something inside it. When the ship closed on the floating object, the ...
3
Marine Combat Water Survival
Staying Afloat With a Life Preserver The best form of flotation is to find any kind of floating object that will keep you and your equipment out of the water or minimize your exposure to the water. Life preservers are the best method, as they allow ...
United States Marine Corps, 2004
4
World Index of Plastics Standards
... Life Preserver Inflating Assembly Flu ia/p (1968) Life Preserver (1962) Life Preserver (1967) Life Preserver (1968) Life Preserver (1968) Life Preserver, Diver's (1961) Life Preserver, Inflatable, Aircrewmen, Type Lpa 1 (1967) Life Preserver, ...
Leslie H. Breden, 1971
5
Fun, Fitness, and Skills: The Powerful Original Games Approach
Students may enter the water only if they have a life preserver. No more than two students may share one preserver. 5. A student may cross to land only if touching a life preserver. 6. Students may stay still (tread water) without a preserver.
Howie Weiss, 2008
6
MotorBoating
Smack's Human Life Preserver A cork life preserver which fits around the neck and can be instantly adjusted to any person, from the smallest child to the largest adult. Emergencies don't permit the selection of a size preserver to fit. The Human ...
7
Boating
Y. 11201 Life preserver 3 Adult 4103 Kapok Cotton drill 160.002/6/1 $11.70 ( Jacket) Life preserver 5 Child 4104 Kapok Cotton drill 160.002/7/1 10.60 (Jacket) Life preserver 52 Adult 5103 Fibrous glass Cotton drill 160.005/15/0 —(Jacket) Life ...
8
L.S.A., List of C.F.R. Sections Affected
provide support to the head so that the face of an unconscious or exhausted person is held above the water. (f) A life preserver shall be capable of turning the wearer, upon entering the water, to a safe flotation position as described in ...
‎2003
9
Title 46 - Shipping: U.s. Coast Guard Parts 156 1-65
normal usage of the life preserver. All components used in the construction of a life preserver must meet the applicable requirements of subpart 164.019 of the chapter. (b) A life preserver must be capable of supporting a minimum of 22 pounds ...
‎2006
10
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
provide support to the head so that the face of an unconscious or exhausted person is held above the water. (f) A life preserver shall be capable of turning the wearer, upon entering the water, to a safe flotation position as described in ...
‎1981

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LIFE PRESERVER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term life preserver is used in the context of the following news items.
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Invention Of The Week? Kingii Will Help Prevent Drownings
Kingii is a life preserver that you simply wear around your wrist. During an emergency you simply just pull its handle and a bright orange nylon ... «Inventorspot, Jul 15»
2
Mayor Flaggs takes 'roasting' to benefit Naylor Foundation | Vicksburg
He talked about his father teaching him to swim by putting him in a life preserver and tossing him into the deep end of the YMCA pool, and ... «Vicksburg Post, Jul 15»
3
How to Survive a Boating Accident
I actually turned my pants into a life preserver. If you don't see lane, you just have to stay calm and conserve energy. Panicking will deplete your ... «ABC News, Jul 15»
4
'We have better technology than Google', says Microsoft COO …
Microsoft COO Kevin Turner believes Google Apps customers need to be thrown a life preserver and be rescued. Speaking at the Microsoft ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
5
Channel Beat: Data Center, IoT Keep Intel Afloat In Q2
Those businesses served as a life preserver for Intel's lagging PC business. Despite growth in those areas, Intel's earnings fell 4.6 percent ... «CRN, Jul 15»
6
A Long Hardwood Journey - The New York Times
It was as if Kobe were tossing himself a life preserver. “I knew Kobe was not himself,” Arce said. “He could not bear to knock on the door to his ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
7
Clayton Kershaw says he isn't a fan of the All-Star 'counting' after …
Afterward, a reporter threw him a life preserver by asking if his routine was thrown off by pitching middle relief instead of starting. Kershaw threw ... «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
8
Splashing out at Welney
Children aged 8-15 can enter as long as one of their four-person team is aged 16 or over and all are wearing life preserver jackets. The races ... «Fenland Citizen, Jul 15»
9
Tame Impala Currents
... interlude that echoes, "But is there something more than that?," a hope-filled life preserver, above wobbling synthesizer and woozy strings. «Exclaim!, Jul 15»
10
The First Life-Saving Wearable
The capsule holds a folded square life preserver that's about the size of a basketball when inflated and scrunches down to the size of small ... «Outside Magazine, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Life preserver [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/life-preserver>. Apr 2024 ».
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