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save¹ Definition

save (sāv)

transitive verb saved, sav′·ing

  1. to rescue or preserve from harm, danger, injury, etc.; make or keep safe
  2. to keep in health and well-being: now only in certain formulas God save the king!
  3. to preserve for future use; lay by: often with up
  4. to prevent or guard against loss or waste of to save time, to save a game
  5. to avoid, prevent, lessen, or guard against to save wear and tear
  6. to treat or use carefully in order to preserve, lessen wear, etc.
  7. Comput. to copy (data, a file, etc.) from random-access memory to a disk, tape, etc. for storage
  8. Theol. to deliver from sin and its penalties

Etymology: ME saven < OFr sauver, salver < L salvare < salvus, safe

intransitive verb

  1. to avoid expense, loss, waste, etc.; be economical
  2. to keep something or someone from danger, harm, etc.
  3. to put by money or goods; hoard: often with up
  4. to keep; last
  5. Theol. to bring about deliverance from sin and its penalties

noun

  1. Sports an action that keeps an opponent from scoring or winning
  2. ☆ Baseball the preserving of a team's lead by a relief pitcher in the final inning

save¹ Related Forms
sav′·able adjective or save′·able sav′er noun
save² Definition

save (sāv)

except; but

Etymology: ME sauf < OFr, lit., safe: sense developed from use in absolute constructions, e.g. sauf le droit, right (being) safe

  1. except; but
  2. Archaic unless

save Synonyms

save

v.

  1. To remove from danger

    deliver, extricate, rescue, free, set free, liberate, release, emancipate, ransom, redeem, come to the rescue of, snatch from the jaws of death, wrest from danger, defend; see also rescue 1.

    Antonyms endanger*, desert, condemn.

  2. To deliver from sin

    rescue from sin, reclaim, regenerate, bring into spiritual life, deliver from the power of Satan.

    Antonyms condemn*, damn, send to Hell.

  3. To hoard

    collect, store, lay up, lay apart, lay in, amass, accumulate, gather, treasure up, store up, pile up, hide away, cache, stow away, draw the purse strings*.

    Antonyms waste*, spend, invest.

  4. To preserve

    conserve, keep, put up, protect; see preserve 3.

  5. To reserve

    lay aside, lay away, set aside; see maintain 3.

  6. To avoid

    spare, curtail, lessen; see avoid. See syn. study at rescue.

save Usage Examples

Object

  • money: Sign up to save money on your ski holidays.
  • life: The numbers of lives saved in areas using these, clearly show the benefits.
  • file: A pop up window will appear asking you to either save the file to disk or to open the file.
  • planet: Only you can decide how much you are willing to pay to save the planet.
  • thousand: Buy and sell WITHOUT estate agents, save thousands £ ' s - Find the property you're looking for with 42 Search Options.
  • energy: Energy saving Ten ways in which you can save energy in the home.

Preposition: on

  • postage: In this way, you will never miss and edition and you also save on postage!
  • disk: Figures must be saved on a separate disk from the text.
  • cost: The £ 30 is the money West Sussex County Council saves on disposal costs.

Subject

  • keeper: A tackle nearly brought him down but it did enough to un balance the striker and his shot was easily saved by the keeper.

Preposition: as

  • GIF: Files saved as GIF or JPEG files are usually acceptable.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • up: Rainfall harvesting, can help you save up to 50 % of your annual water bill Did you know?

Used with why or when

  • when: All the other forms are hidden and make no impression upon us, save when they encounter material particles and thus display their existence.

Infinitive complement

  • deny: But Parker narrowed the angle on the rush and spread himself, making a superb pad save to deny St. Ives the equalizer.

Preposition: in

  • circumstance: Rat examination Recent changes in protocol have put a ban on the LD50 test, save in exceptional circumstances.
  • format: IMPORTANT: make sure that ALL your images are saved in the same format.

Preposition: from

  • goalkeeper: Barr then went close twice, forcing a save from goalkeeper Rachel Brown and then seeing her goalbound effort deflected for a corner.

Preposition: for

  • retirement: One of the main aims of the commission is to look at whether saving for retirement should be compulsory.
  • pension: Continuing to save for pension after age 60 would increase these pension amounts at age 65 and 70 even further.

Preposition: by

  • keeper: A tackle nearly brought him down but it did enough to un balance the striker and his shot was easily saved by the keeper.
save Quotes

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

—Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren

   It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

—Anonymous

   He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.

—Bible (NewTestament)

I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

—Pitt,William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

—DeVries, Peter

We may say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General† Maintain your rage and your enthusiasm for the election now to be held and until polling day.

—Whitlam, (Edward) Gough

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditionöa desire which†comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

—Smith, Adam

It is defiantöthe desperate act of men too profoundly convinced of the rottenness of our civilization to want to save a shred of its respectability.

—Read, Sir Herbert Edward

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

—Dowd, Maureen

Save something for theThird Act.

—Anonymous

Must then a Christ perish in torment in everyage to save those that have no imagination?

—Shaw, George Bernard

Les femmes aiment fort a'   sauver qui les perd. Women love to save those who damn them.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.

—Jordan,June

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