save
Part of speech: verb
noun
prep
conj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
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gambling
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government
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martial-arts
mathematics
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professional-wrestling
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sports
video-games
war
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
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”). Displaced native Old English nerian.
Inflected forms:
form: saves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: saved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: saved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: save
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: save
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: saved
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: save
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: savest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: saved
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: savedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: saves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saveth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: saved
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: save
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: saved
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: save
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: saved
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: save
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: saving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: saved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: saves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To prevent harm or difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She was saved from drowning by a passer-by.
We were able to save a few of our possessions from the house fire.
Turn out the light
Don't try to save me
You may be wrong for all I know
But you may be right
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
gloss: To prevent harm or difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Thou hast[…]quitted all to save / A world from utter loss.
IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE
You often hear a new policy or procedure justified by the specious idea that "If it saves the life of just one (insert here 'child' or 'American soldier'), it will be worth it." Well, maybe not. Maybe a closer look would show that the cost in time, money or inconvenience would be much too high to justify merely saving one life. What's wrong with looking at it like that? Governments and corporations make those calculations all the time.
gloss: To prevent harm or difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'll save you / That labour, sir. All's now done.
gloss: To prevent harm or difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Jesus Christ came to save sinners.
gloss: To prevent harm or difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus de Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.
gloss: To prevent harm or difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To put aside; to avoid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let's save the packaging in case we need to send the product back.
gloss: To put aside; to avoid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Save electricity by turning off the lights when you leave the room.
An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
However, we’ve reached the stage where our technological leaps and bounds no longer save us hours, or even minutes – they shave only seconds from our day-to-day tasks.
gloss: To put aside; to avoid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?
gloss: To put aside; to avoid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Where did I save that document? I can't find it on the desktop.
You can only save your current session at the Presidential Seals scattererd throughout the game.
gloss: To put aside; to avoid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To put aside; to avoid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To put aside; to avoid.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
transitive
examples: to save a fiver
gloss: To put aside; to avoid.
pos: verb
tags: often
reflexive
examples: She told me she's saving herself for marriage.
Ryder: Come on—you two were intimate, right?
Peebee: Take a wild guess. Why are people so hung up on sex? It's a natural expression of attraction.
Peebee: We were doing exciting, daring, irreverent things. It stirs stuff up. Like shaking up a bottle of champagne, you know?
Peebee: You should know, better than anyone...
Peebee: I'm not the type to "save myself".
gloss: To put aside; to avoid.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Save your excuses and lies.
School days went by. I ran across Sly a couple a times, but I wasn't in no mood to talk. He could save all that philosophical bullshit he liked to holla. Didn't nobody need to tell me what was up.
gloss: An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
pos: noun
examples: The goaltender made a great save.
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.
gloss: An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
pos: noun
examples: Jones retired seven to earn the save.
gloss: An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save.
gloss: An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Nice save.
gloss: The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
pos: noun
examples: If you're hit by a power cut, you'll lose all of your changes since your last save.
The game console can store up to eight saves on a single cartridge.
gloss: A saving throw.
pos: noun
gloss: Except; with the exception of.
pos: prep
examples: Under the terms of the Interdict no church services and offices were to be permitted save the baptism of infants and the confession of the dying.
gloss: unless; except
pos: conj
examples: Only the parties may institute proceedings, save where the law shall provide otherwise.
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Derived words: a penny saved is a penny earned
a penny saved is a penny gained
autosave
auto-save
captain save a hoe
daylight-saving time
dissave
face-saving
foresave
God save the mark
lifesaver
lifesaving
outsave
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quicksave
resave
savable
save-all
save appearances
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save back
save by the bell
saved by the bell
saved game
savegame
save face
save file
savefile
save for a rainy day
save harmless
save it
savement
save one's breath
save one's breath to cool one's porridge
save one's neck
save one's skin
save over
save point
savepoint
savescum
save slot
save someone's bacon
save someone's face
save someone's life
save someone's skin
save something for a rainy day
save state
savestate
save the best for last
save the date
save the day
save the drama for your mama
save the drama for your momma
save the furniture
save the mark
save up
save versus
saving your presence
saving your reverence
scrimp and save
shit fire and save matches
skimp and save
time-saving
to save one's life
undersave
unsave
withsave
death save
game save
multisave
nonsave
reaction save
save shot
saveworthy
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