Dictionary Definition
save n : (sports) the act of preventing the
opposition from scoring; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the
relief pitcher got credit for a save"
Verb
2 to keep up and reserve for personal or special
use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer" [syn:
preserve]
3 bring into safety; "We pulled through most of
the victims of the bomb attack" [syn: carry
through, pull
through, bring
through]
4 spend less; buy at a reduced price
6 make unnecessary an expenditure or effort;
"This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will
save you a lot of time" [syn: make
unnecessary]
8 refrain from harming [syn: spare]
9 spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move
will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now"
[syn: economize,
economise]
10 retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I
give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of
a merger" [syn: keep open,
hold
open, keep]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /seɪv/, /seIv/
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- Rhymes with: -eɪv
Noun
- In various sports, a
block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- The goaltender made a great save.
- When a relief pitcher comes into a game with a 3 run or less
lead, and his team wins while continually being ahead.
- Jones retired seven to earn the save.
- In the context of "professional wrestling|slang": 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.
- The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save.
block that prevents an opponent from scoring
- Norwegian: redning
Verb
- To help (somebody) to survive, or keep (somebody) from harm.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- To store for future use.
- To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- To obviate or make unnecessary.
- In the context of "transitive|computing": To copy (a file) to disk.
- In the context of "transitive|theology": To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- To economize or avoid waste.
- In the context of "transitive|and|intransitive": To accumulate money or valuables.
Translations
to help someone to survive
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 拯救 (zhěngjiù)
- Czech: zachránit
- Dutch: redden
- Finnish: säästää
- French: sauver
- German: retten
- Hungarian: megment
- Italian: aiutare, salvare, soccorrere
- Japanese: 救う (すくう, sukuu), 助ける (たすける, tasukeru) / 救助する (きゅうじょする, kyūjo-suru), 救出する (kyūshutsusuru)
- Korean: 구해내다 (guhaenaeda)
- Mongolian: аврах
- Norwegian: redde
- Old English: nerian
- Portuguese: ajudar, salvar, socorrer
- Romanian: ajuta, salva
- Russian: спасать (spasát’) , спасти (spastí)
- Slovene: rešiti
- Spanish: salvar, rescatar
- Swedish: rädda
- Telugu: రక్షించు (rakshiMchu), కాపాడు (kaapaaDu)
- Welsh: achub, arbed
- Yakut: абыраа (aburaqu)
store for future use
- Czech: uložit, spořit
- Dutch: sparen
- Esperanto: ŝpari
- Finnish: säästää, säilyttää
- French: épargner
- German: sichern, speichern
- Italian: salvare, immagazzinare
- Japanese: 保存する (ほぞんする, hozon-suru), 保管する (hokansuru)
- Norwegian: spare, lagre
- Portuguese: armazenar, estocar, guardar
- Romanian: salva, aproviziona
- Russian: сохранять (sokhranját’) , сохранить (sokhranít’)
- Slovene: shraniti
- Spanish: ahorrar, guardar, reservar
- Swedish: spara
- Telugu: భద్రపరచు (bhadraparachu)
- Welsh: cynilo, arbed, neilltuo
computing
- Czech: uložit
- Dutch: opslaan (old software sometimes uses bewaren)
- Finnish: tallentaa
- French: sauvegarder
- German: speichern
- Italian: salvare
- Japanese: 保存する (ほぞんする, hozon-suru)
- Norwegian: lagre
- Portuguese: guardar (Portugal), salvar (Brazil)
- Russian: сохранять (sokhranját’) , сохранить (sokhranít’)
- Slovene: shraniti
- Spanish: archivar, guardar, salvar
- Swedish: spara
- Telugu: భద్రపరచు (bhadraparachu)
accumulate money
- ttbc German:aufbewahren (2), speichern (3)
- ttbc Indonesian: menyelamatkan (1), simpan (2,3)
Preposition
Synonyms
- sense with the exception of except
Translations
except, with the exception of
Etymology
sabe.Verb
- to know
- to understand
- to make a practice or habit of
Extensive Definition
Save may refer to:
- Save (baseball), when a pitcher finishes a game for the winning team under certain prescribed circumstances
- Save (ice hockey), when a goalie prevents a goal
- To save documents and data in files on a computer
A place:
- Save (Garonne), a river in southern France
- Save River (Africa), a river in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
- Savé, Benin
- Sava, a river in Eastern Europe also known as Save
- Säve Flygplats, former name for the Gothenburg City Airport
Saved may refer to:
- Saved (album), a 1980 album by Bob Dylan
- Saved (Swans EP), a 1989 EP by Swans
- Saved (play), a play by Edward Bond
- Saved (TV series), a 2006 television drama
- Saved!, a 2004 film
- Saved game, saved progress of a player in a video game
- Salvation, in theology, can mean three related things
See also
- lookfrom Save
save in German: Save (Begriffsklärung)
save in French: Save
save in Italian: Saved
save in Japanese: セーブ
save in Polish: Save
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abet,
abstain, accumulate, aid, amass, anticipate, aside from,
assist, avail, avert, backlog, bail out, bar, barring, bear a hand, befriend, benefit, beside, besides, bottle up, but, cache, collect, comfort, conserve, convert, copyright, cork up, cumulate, debar, defend, deflect, deliver, deposit, deter, discounting, discourage, dishearten, dispense with, do
good, do without, doctor,
ease, economize, enforce economies,
estop, ex, except, except for, except that,
excepting, exception
taken of, exclude,
excluding, exclusive
of, extract, extricate, favor, fend, fend off, forbear, forbid, foreclose, forestall, forgo, free, from, garner, garner up, gather into
barns, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give help, give
salvation, guard, heap up,
help, hide, hoard, hoard up, hold, hold back, hold in, hold off,
however, husband, if not, inhibit, keep, keep alive, keep back, keep
by one, keep from, keep in, keep in hand, keep in reserve, keep in
store, keep intact, keep inviolate, keep off, keep on hand, keep
safe, keep up, keep within compass, lay aside, lay away, lay by,
lay in, lay up, leaving out, lend a hand, lend one aid, less, let alone, liberate, lock in, maintain, make ends meet, make
sure, manage, minus, not counting, not destroy,
not endanger, not expend, not touch, not use, not use up, not
waste, obviate, off, omitting, outside of, patent, pile up, play safe,
preclude, precluding, preserve, prevent, proffer aid, prohibit, protect, put apart, put aside,
put away, put by, put something aside, put up, rally, ransom, reclaim, recover, redeem, reform, refrain, regenerate, register, release, relieve, remedy, render assistance,
repel, repress, rescue, reserve, restore, resuscitate, retain, retrieve, revive, rule out, safeguard, salt away, salvage, save and except, save
up, saving, scrape, scrape and save, scrimp, secrete, secure, set apart, set aside, set
by, set free, set up, shelter, shield, skimp, spare, squirrel, squirrel away, stave
off, stock up, stockpile, store up, stow, succor, support, suppress, sustain, take in tow, take
precautions, than, treasure, treasure up, turn
aside, unchain, unless, unless that, unshackle, uphold, waive, ward off, were it not,
withhold, without, yet