 9 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
save
noun: (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring;
"the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher
got credit for a save"
verb
1: save from ruin, destruction, or harm [syn: {salvage}, {salve},
{relieve}]
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
5: feather one's nest; have a nest egg; "He saves half his
salary" [syn: {lay aside}, {save up}]
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}]
7: save from sins [syn: {deliver}, {redeem}]
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}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Save \Save\, noun [See {Sage} the herb.]
The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Save \Save\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Saved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Saving}.] [OE. saven, sauven, salven, OF. salver, sauver, F.
sauver, L. salvare, fr. salvus saved, safe. See {Safe}, adjective]
1. To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from
injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from
impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
God save all this fair company. --Chaucer.
He cried, saying, Lord, save me. --Matt. xiv.
30.
Thou hast . . . quitted all to save
A world from utter loss. --Milton.
2. (Theol.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its
penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and
spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
--1 Tim. i.
15.
3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or
expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
Now save a nation, and now save a groat. --Pope.
4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to
prevent from doing something; to spare.
I'll save you
That labor, sir. All's now done. --Shak.
5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate
the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? --Dryden.
6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of
merit. --Swift.
{To save appearances}, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid
exposure of a discreditable state of things.
Syn: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve;
prevent.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Save \Save\, conj.
Except; unless.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Save \Save\, verb (used without an object)
To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent
waste; to be economical.
Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material.
--Bacon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Save \Save\, preposition or conj. [F. sauf, properly adjective, safe. See
{Safe}, adjective]
Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting;
reserving; saving.
Five times received I forty stripes save one. --2 Cor.
xi. 24.
Syn: See {Except}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
221 Moby Thesaurus words for "save":
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
SAVE
An {assembler} for the {Burroughs 220} by Melvin Conway (see
{Conway's Law}). The name "SAVE" didn't stand for anything,
it was just that you lost fewer card decks and listings
because they all had SAVE written on them.
(1995-01-16)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
save
To copy {data} to a more
permanent form of storage. The term is commonly used for when
some kind of document editing {application program} writes the
current document from {RAM} to a {file} on {hard disk} at the
request of the user. The implication is that the user might
later {load} the file back into the editor again to view it,
print it, or continue editing it. Saving a document makes it
safe from the effects of power failure.
The "document" might actually be anything, e.g. a {word
processor} document, the current state of a game, a piece of
music, a {web site}, or a memory image of some program being
executed (though the term "dump" would probably be more common
here).
Data can be saved to any kind of (writable) storage: hard
disk, {floppy disk}, {CD-R}; either locally or via a
{network}.
A program might save its data without any explicit user
request, e.g. periodically as a precaution ("auto save"), or
if it forms part of a {pipeline} of processes which pass data
via intermediate files. In the latter case the term suggests
all data is written in a single operation whereas "output"
might be a continuous flow, in true pipeline fashion.
When copying several files from one storage medium to another,
the terms "back-up", "dump", or "archive" would be used rather
than "save". The term "store" is similar to "save" but
typically applies to copying a single item of data, e.g. a
number, from a {processor}'s {register} to {RAM}.
(2002-06-07)
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