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1  [seyv] verb, saved, sav⋅ing, noun
Use save in a Sentence
–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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save

2  [seyv]
–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 except 1 .

Save

  [sah-vuh]
–noun
Sava.

Sa⋅va

  [sah-vah]
–noun
a river flowing E from W Slovenia, through Croatia to the Danube at Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 450 mi. (725 km) long.
Also, Save.
German, Sau.
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save 1   (sāv)   
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.

  2. To keep in a safe condition; safeguard.

  3. 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.

  5. To set aside for future use; store.

  6. To treat with care by avoiding fatigue, wear, or damage; spare: save one's eyesight.

  7. 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.

  9. Computer Science To copy (a file) from a computer's main memory to a storage medium.

v.   intr.

  1. To avoid waste or expense; economize.

  2. To accumulate money: saving for a vacation.

  3. To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss.

n.  

  1. Sports An act that prevents an opponent from scoring.

  2. 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).
save 2   (sāv)   
prep.  With the exception of; except: "No man enjoys self-reproach save a masochist" (Philip Wylie).
conj.  

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

  2. Unless.


[Middle English, from Old French sauf, from Latin salvō, ablative sing. of salvus, safe; see sol- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

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.

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

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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

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. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
SAVE
Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement
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