save
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sāv
ipa: /seɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: saves
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós
Proto-Italic *salawos
Latin salvus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin salvō
Latin salvāre
Old French sauverbor.
Middle English saven
English save
From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”).
Senses: examples: text: As 1942 began, work was now continuing apace on getting the ships back afloat and into dock. The first good news in this regard was West Virginia. Thanks to a combination of Tennessees unintentional save' and the crew's own efforts, she'd settled upright, and so divers estimated that, if the various holes could be patched and pumping done in a sensible order from the top down, she should just rise back up to the surface on an even keel, which, in turn, meant that a lot of the initial work on removing her main battery could now be stopped.
ref: 2020 November 18, Drachinifel, 0:34 from the start, in The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises!, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022:
text: It is no coincidence that two of the four 'saves' on our tour connect with the early days of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR), where restoration has also been helped by recent research that explains further why these saves are so significant.
ref: 2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 53:
glosses: An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
examples: text: The goaltender made a great save.
text: Wolves defender Ronald Zubar was slightly closer with his shot on the turn as he forced Pepe Reina, on his 200th Premier League appearance, into a low save.
ref: 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:
glosses: An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
examples: text: Jones retired seven to earn the save.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
examples: text: The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
examples: text: Nice save.
glosses: An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
examples: text: If you're hit by a power cut, you'll lose all of your changes since your last save.
text: The game console can store up to eight saves on a single cartridge.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A saving throw.
Derived terms: autosave
death save
game save
reaction save
save shot
saveworthy