save
1 [seyv]
verb, saved, sav⋅ing, noun | 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. |
| 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. |
| 16. | an act or instance of saving, esp. in sports. |
| 17. | Baseball. a statistical credit given a relief pitcher for preserving a team's victory by holding its lead in a game. |
Related forms:
1. salvage. 6. store up, husband. 12. economize, hoard.
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Save\, n. [See Sage the herb.] The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] --Chaucer.Save
Save\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saved; p. pr. & vb. n. Saving.] [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.) Specifically, to deliver from sin 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 appearances, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things. Syn: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent.Save
Save\, v. i. To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical. Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material. --Bacon.Save
Save\, conj. Except; unless.Cite This Source
save (v.)
save (prep.)
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SAVE
An assembler for the Burroughs 220 by Melvin Conway (see Conway's Law). The name "SAVE" didn't stand for anything, it was just that you lost fewer card decks and listings because they all had SAVE written on them.
(1995-01-16)
save editor, programming, storage
To copy data to a more permanent form of storage. The term is commonly used for when some kind of document editing application program writes the current document from RAM to a file on hard disk at the request of the user. The implication is that the user might later load the file back into the editor again to view it, print it, or continue editing it. Saving a document makes it safe from the effects of power failure.
The "document" might actually be anything, e.g. a word processor document, the current state of a game, a piece of music, a website, or a memory image of some program being executed (though the term "dump" would probably be more common here).
Data can be saved to any kind of (writable) storage: hard disk, floppy disk, CD-R; either locally or via a network.
A program might save its data without any explicit user request, e.g. periodically as a precaution ("auto save"), or if it forms part of a pipeline of processes which pass data via intermediate files. In the latter case the term suggests all data is written in a single operation whereas "output" might be a continuous flow, in true pipeline fashion.
When copying several files from one storage medium to another, the terms "backup", "dump", or "archive" would be used rather than "save". The term "store" is similar to "save" but typically applies to copying a single item of data, e.g. a number, from a processor's register to RAM.
A "save" operation saves the document in its native format, e.g. a proprietary word processor format, whereas "save as" (or "export") saves the same data in a different format, e.g. a plain text file.
(2002-06-07)
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In addition to the idioms beginning with save, also see penny saved is a penny earned; rainy day, save for a; scrimp and save; to save one's life.
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