save

verb

1. (transitive)To prevent harm or difficulty.

   “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.”

2. (transitive)To prevent harm or difficulty.

   “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.”

3. (transitive)To prevent harm or difficulty.

   “I'll save you / That labour, sir. All's now done.”

4. (transitive)To prevent harm or difficulty.

   “Jesus Christ came to save sinners.”

5. (transitive)To prevent harm or difficulty.

   “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.”

6. (transitive)To prevent harm or difficulty.
7. (transitive)To put aside; to avoid.

   “Let's save the packaging in case we need to send the product back.”

8. (transitive)To put aside; to avoid.

   “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.”

9. (transitive)To put aside; to avoid.

   “Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?”

10. (intransitive, transitive)To put aside; to avoid.

    “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.”

11. (intransitive)To put aside; to avoid.
12. (intransitive, transitive)To put aside; to avoid.
13. (archaic, slang, transitive)To put aside; to avoid.

    “to save a fiver”

14. (often, reflexive)To put aside; to avoid.

    “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".”

15. (informal)To put aside; to avoid.

    “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.”

noun

1. An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

   “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.”

2. An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

   “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.”

3. An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

   “Jones retired seven to earn the save.”

4. (slang)An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

   “The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save.”

5. (informal)An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

   “Nice save.”

6. The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.

   “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.”

7. A saving throw.

prep

1. Except; with the exception of.

   “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.”

conj

1. unless; except

   “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.”

name

1. A river in southeastern Africa that flows about 400 km (250 mi) from south of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.

   ““I am from the Save River. But I married. To a man from afar, Phiri, from Malawi.””

2. A river in southern France that flows about 143 km (89 mi) from the Pyrenees to the Garonne at Grenade.