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[seyv] Pronunciation Key verb, saved, sav·ing, noun

–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, 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.

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME sa(u)ven < OF sauver < LL salvāre to save; see safe

]

—Related forms

sav·a·ble, save·a·ble, adjective

sav·a·ble·ness, save·a·ble·ness, noun

saver, noun

—Synonyms 1. salvage. 6. store up, husband. 12. economize, hoard.

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save2

[seyv] Pronunciation Key

–preposition

1.	except; but: All the guests had left save one.

–conjunction

2.	except; but (usually fol. by that): He would have gone, save that he had no means.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME; var. of safe

]

—Synonyms 1. See except¹.

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Save

[sah-vuh] Pronunciation Key

–noun

Sava.

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save¹   (sāv) Pronunciation Key
v.   saved, sav·ing, saves

v.   tr.

1. To rescue from harm, danger, or loss.
2. To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem.
3. To avoid spending (money) so as to keep or accumulate it.
4. To avoid spending (money or time) in an amount less than what circumstances normally require: saved $25 at the sale; saved 15 minutes by taking a shortcut.
5. Sports To prevent (a goal) from being scored by an opponent.
6. To preserve a victory in (a game).
7. Baseball To preserve (another pitcher's win) by protecting one's team's lead during a stint of relief pitching.
To keep in a safe condition; safeguard.
To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve.
1. To avoid spending (money) so as to keep or accumulate it.
2. To avoid spending (money or time) in an amount less than what circumstances normally require: saved $25 at the sale; saved 15 minutes by taking a shortcut.
3. Sports To prevent (a goal) from being scored by an opponent.
4. To preserve a victory in (a game).
5. Baseball To preserve (another pitcher's win) by protecting one's team's lead during a stint of relief pitching.
To set aside for future use; store.
To treat with care by avoiding fatigue, wear, or damage; spare: save one's eyesight.
To make unnecessary; obviate: Your taking the trunk to the attic has saved me an extra trip.
1. Sports To prevent (a goal) from being scored by an opponent.
2. To preserve a victory in (a game).
3. Baseball To preserve (another pitcher's win) by protecting one's team's lead during a stint of relief pitching.
Computer Science To copy (a file) from a computer's main memory to a storage medium.

v. intr.

To avoid waste or expense; economize.
To accumulate money: saving for a vacation.
To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss.

Sports An act that prevents an opponent from scoring.
Baseball A preservation by a relief pitcher of another pitcher's win.

[Middle English saven, from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre, from Latin salvus, safe; see sol- in Indo-European roots.]

sav'a·ble, save'a·ble adj., sav'er n.

Synonyms: These verbs mean freeing a person or thing from danger, evil, confinement, or servitude. Save is the most general: The smallpox vaccine has saved many lives. A police officer saved the tourist from being cheated.
Rescue usually implies saving from immediate harm or danger by direct action: rescue a rare manuscript from a fire.
Reclaim can mean to bring a person back, as from error to virtue or to right or proper conduct: "To reclaim me from this course of life was the sole cause of his journey to London" (Henry Fielding).
To redeem is to free someone from captivity or the consequences of sin or error; the term can imply the expenditure of money or effort: The price for redeeming the hostages was extortionate.
Deliver applies to liberating people from something such as misery, peril, error, or evil: "consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them" (George Washington).

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save²   (sāv) Pronunciation Key
prep.   With the exception of; except: "No man enjoys self-reproach save a masochist" (Philip Wylie).

conj.

Were it not; except: The house would be finished by now, save that we had difficulty contracting a roofer.
Unless.

[Middle English, from Old French sauf, from Latin salvō, ablative sing. of salvus, safe; see sol- in Indo-European roots.]

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save (v.)

c.1225, "to deliver (one's soul) from sin and its consequences;" c.1250, "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 1362; 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.

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save (n.)

in the sports sense of "act of preventing opponent from scoring," 1890, from save (v.).

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save (prep.)

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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save
noun
1.	(sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save"
verb
1.	save from ruin, destruction, or harm [syn: salvage]
2.	to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"
3.	bring into safety; "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"
4.	spend less; buy at a reduced price
5.	accumulate money for future use; "He saves half his salary"
6.	make unnecessary an expenditure or effort; "This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time"
7.	save from sins [syn: deliver]
8.	refrain from harming [syn: spare]
9.	spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now"
10.	retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger" [syn: keep open]
11.	record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk" [syn: write]

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save

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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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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)

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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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Save

Save\, n. [See Sage the herb.] The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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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.

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