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save
1[ seyv ]
verb (used with object)
- to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss:
to save someone from drowning.
Synonyms: salvage
God save the king.
- to keep from being lost to an opponent:
A goal in the final minute saved the game.
- to avoid the spending, consumption, or waste of:
to save fuel.
- to keep, as for reuse:
to save leftovers for tomorrow's dinner.
- to set aside, reserve, or lay by:
to save money.
- to treat carefully in order to reduce wear, fatigue, etc.:
to save one's eyes by reading under proper light.
- to prevent the occurrence, use, or necessity of; obviate:
to come early in order to save waiting.
- Theology. to deliver from the power and consequences of sin.
- Computers. to copy (a file or other data) to a storage medium, as from RAM to a disk.
- Sports. to stop (a ball or puck) from entering one's goal.
verb (used without object)
noun
- an act or instance of saving, especially in sports:
The goalie guarded the net well and made a crucial save.
- Baseball. a statistical credit given a relief pitcher for preserving a team's victory by holding its lead in a game.
- Computers.
- an act of copying a file or other data to a storage medium:
The server is scheduled to execute a systemwide save at the end of the work day.
- one version of a saved file:
We can recover the lost data if we restore it from a previous save.
save
2[ seyv ]
preposition
- except; but:
All the guests had left save one.
conjunction
- except; but (usually followed by that ):
He would have gone, save that he had no means.
Save
3[ sah-vuh ]
noun
- Sava.
save
1/ seɪv /
preposition
- Alsosaving often foll by for with the exception of
conjunction
- but; except
save
2/ seɪv /
verb
- tr to rescue, preserve, or guard (a person or thing) from danger or harm
- to avoid the spending, waste, or loss of (money, possessions, etc)
- tr to deliver from sin; redeem
- often foll by up to set aside or reserve (money, goods, etc) for future use
- tr to treat with care so as to avoid or lessen wear or degeneration
use a good light to save your eyes
- tr to prevent the necessity for; obviate the trouble of
good work now will save future revision
- tr sport to prevent (a goal) by stopping (a struck ball or puck)
- intr (of food) to admit of preservation; keep
noun
- sport the act of saving a goal
- computing an instruction to write information from the memory onto a tape or disk
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Derived Forms
- ˈsaver, noun
- ˈsavableness, noun
- ˈsavable, adjective
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Other Words From
- sava·ble savea·ble adjective
- sava·ble·ness savea·ble·ness noun
- saver noun
- un·sava·ble adjective
- un·savea·ble adjective
- un·saved adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of save1
Origin of save2
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Idioms and Phrases
- penny saved is a penny earned
- rainy day, save for a
- scrimp and save
- to save one's life
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
If the world is going to end, why are evangelicals so busy trying to save it?
Mills was lying on the sidewalk, dying, right in front of people trained to save him.
Like background check laws across the country, it will help keep guns out of dangerous hands, reduce gun crime, and save lives.
“We started doing this because we want to save lives,” Jonson says.
Alexander and Adorno were doing what they could to save the officer on the passenger side, Liu.
This will often save the foliage from drying up, a happening which makes the plants rather unsightly.
His hair was darker—almost brown save at the temples, where age had faded it to an ashen colour.
Among the clergy therein he finds no offenses, save that a few have gambled in public; these are promptly disciplined.
My thought was to keep pushing in troops from "W" Beach until the enemy had fallen back to save themselves from being cut off.
She reached forward to it in ecstasy; but she might not enjoy it, save at the price which her conscience exacted.
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