saving
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vɪŋ adjective
1.
tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
2.
compensating; redeeming: a saving sense of humor.
3.
thrifty; economical: a saving housekeeper.
4.
making a reservation: a saving clause.
noun
5.
a reduction or lessening of expenditure or outlay: a saving of 10 percent.
6.
something that is saved.
7.
savings, sums of money saved by economy and laid away.
8.
Law. a reservation or exception.
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preposition
9.
except: Nothing remains saving these ruins.
10.
with all due respect to or for: saving your presence.
conjunction
11.
except; save.
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verb (used with object)
1.
to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
2.
to keep safe, intact, or unhurt; safeguard; preserve: God save the king.
3.
to keep from being lost: to save the game.
4.
to avoid the spending, consumption, or waste of: to save fuel.
5.
to keep, as for reuse: to save leftovers for tomorrow's dinner.
6.
to set aside, reserve, or lay by: to save money.
7.
to treat carefully in order to reduce wear, fatigue, etc.: to save one's eyes by reading under proper light.
8.
to prevent the occurrence, use, or necessity of; obviate: to come early in order to save waiting.
9.
Theology. to deliver from the power and consequences of sin.
10.
Computers. to copy (a file) from RAM onto a disk or other storage medium.
11.
Sports. to stop (a ball or puck) from entering one's goal.
verb (used without object)
12.
to lay up money as the result of economy or thrift.
13.
to be economical in expenditure.
14.
to preserve something from harm, injury, loss, etc.
15.
to admit of being kept without spoiling, as food.
noun
16.
an act or instance of saving, especially in sports.
17.
Baseball. a statistical credit given a relief pitcher for preserving a team's victory by holding its lead in a game.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English sa(u)ven < Old French sauver < Late Latin salvāre to save; see safe
1175–1225; Middle English sa(u)ven < Old French sauver < Late Latin salvāre to save; see safe
Related forms
sav·a·ble, save·a·ble, adjective
sav·a·ble·ness, save·a·ble·ness, noun
sav·er, noun
un·sav·a·ble, adjective
un·save·a·ble, adjective
Synonyms
1. salvage. 6. store up, husband. 12. economize, hoard.
1. salvage. 6. store up, husband. 12. economize, hoard.
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Sava or Save (ˈsɑːvə, sɑːv) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a river in SE Europe, rising in NW Slovenia and flowing east and south to the Danube at Belgrade. Length: 940 km (584 miles) | |
| Save or Save | |
| —n | |
| save1 (seɪv) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr) to rescue, preserve, or guard (a person or thing) from danger or harm |
| 2. | to avoid the spending, waste, or loss of (money, possessions, etc) |
| 3. | (tr) to deliver from sin; redeem |
| 4. | ( |
| 5. | (tr) to treat with care so as to avoid or lessen wear or degeneration: use a good light to save your eyes |
| 6. | (tr) to prevent the necessity for; obviate the trouble of: good work now will save future revision |
| 7. | (tr) sport to prevent (a goal) by stopping (a struck ball or puck) |
| 8. | chiefly (US) (intr) (of food) to admit of preservation; keep |
| —n | |
| 9. | sport the act of saving a goal |
| 10. | computing an instruction to write information from the memory onto a tape or disk |
| [C13: from Old French salver, via Late Latin from Latin salvus safe] | |
| 'savable1 | |
| —adj | |
| 'saveable1 | |
| —adj | |
| 'savableness1 | |
| —n | |
| 'saveableness1 | |
| —n | |
| 'saver1 | |
| —n | |
| save2 (seɪv) | |
| —prep | |
| 1. | ( |
| —conj | |
| 2. | but; except |
| [C13 sauf, from Old French, from Latin salvō, from salvus safe] | |
| saving (ˈseɪvɪŋ) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | tending to save or preserve |
| 2. | redeeming or compensating (esp in the phrase saving grace) |
| 3. | thrifty or economical |
| 4. | law denoting or relating to an exception or reservation: a saving clause in an agreement |
| —n | |
| 5. | preservation or redemption, esp from loss or danger |
| 6. | economy or avoidance of waste |
| 7. | reduction in cost or expenditure: a saving of 100 dollars |
| 8. | anything saved |
| 9. | (plural) money saved for future use |
| 10. | law an exception or reservation |
| —prep | |
| 11. | with the exception of |
| —conj | |
| 12. | except |
| 'savingly | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
save
early 13c., "to deliver (one's soul) from sin and its consequences;" mid-13c., "to deliver or rescue from peril," from O.Fr. sauver, from L.L. salvare "make safe, secure," from L. salvus "safe" (see safe (adj.)). Meaning "store up, to keep instead of spending" is attested from
mid-14c.; savings "money hoarded up" is from 1737; savings bank is 1817 (S & L for savings and loan attested from 1951). Save face (1898) first was used among the British community in China and is said to be from Chinese; it has not been found in Chinese, but tiu lien "to lose face" does occur. To not (do something) to save one's life is recorded from 1848. Phrase saved by the bell (1932) is from boxing.
save
c.1300, from safe (q.v.), paralleling evolution in O.Fr. sauf "safe," prepositional use of the adj., in phrases such as saulve l'honneur "save (our) honor."
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
| SAVE Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement |
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Example sentences
In other words, start and keep saving for college anyway.
It is equally nonsensical to see saving as an intrinsically virtuous activity and borrowing as an essentially dubious one.
When it comes to saving the seas, of course, the kind of technological fixes suggested here would be measures of last resort.
Their talk of saving civilization, he now tends to think, has never been anything but a bluff.
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