SAVE

save

(noun) (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring; “the goalie made a brilliant save”; “the relief pitcher got credit for a save”

save, make unnecessary

(verb) make unnecessary an expenditure or effort; “This will save money”; “I’ll save you the trouble”; “This will save you a lot of time”

write, save

(verb) record data on a computer; “boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk”

save, preserve

(verb) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; “She saved the old family photographs in a drawer”

save, lay aside, save up

(verb) accumulate money for future use; “He saves half his salary”

save

(verb) spend less; buy at a reduced price

save, economize, economise

(verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; “This move will save money”; “The less fortunate will have to economize now”

spare, save

(verb) refrain from harming

salvage, salve, relieve, save

(verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm

deliver, redeem, save

(verb) save from sins

save, carry through, pull through, bring through

(verb) bring into safety; “We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

save (plural saves)

In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.

(baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead.

(professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.

(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.

(RPG) A saving throw.

Verb

save (third-person singular simple present saves, present participle saving, simple past and past participle saved)

(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.

To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.

To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.

To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.

(theology) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.

(sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).

To put aside, to avoid.

(transitive) To store for future use.

(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.

(transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.

(transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.

(intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.

(transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.

Usage notes

In computing sense “to write a file”, also used as phrasal verb save down informally. Compare other computing phrasal verbs such as print out and close out.

Preposition

save

Except; with the exception of.

Synonyms

• barring, except for, save for; see also except

Conjunction

save

(dated) unless; except

Anagrams

• AEVs, Esav, VASE, VESA, Veas, aves, vaes, vase

Proper noun

Save

A river in southeastern Africa that flows about 400 km (250 mi) from south of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.

A river in southern France that flows about 143 km (89 mi) from the Pyrenees to the Garonne at Grenade.

Synonyms

• (river in Africa): Sabi

Anagrams

• AEVs, Esav, VASE, VESA, Veas, aves, vaes, vase

Source: Wiktionary

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Save, n. Etym: [See Sage the herb.]

Definition: The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Save, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saved; p. pr. & vb. n. Saving.] Etym: [OE. saven, sauven, salven, OF. salver, sauver, F. sauver, L. salvare, fr. salvus saved, safe. See Safe, a.]

1. To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames. God save all this fair company. Chaucer. He cried, saying, Lord, save me. Matt. xiv. 30. Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from utter loss. Milton.

2. (Theol.)

Definition: Specifically, to deliver from and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. 1 Tim. i. 15.

3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve. Now save a nation, and now save a groat. Pope.

4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare. I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done. Shak.

5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare. Will you not speak to save a lady's blush Dryden.

6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit. Swift. To save appearance, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things.

Syn.

– To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent.

Save, v. i.

Definition: To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical. Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material. Bacon.

Save, prep. or conj. Etym: [F. sauf, properly adj., safe. See Safe, a.]

Definition: Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. Five times received I forty stripes save one. 2 Cor. xi. 24.

Syn.

– See Except.

Save, conj.

Definition: Except; unless.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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