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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]:
Saving \Sav"ing\, adjective
1. Preserving; rescuing.
He is the saving strength of his anointed. --Ps. xxviii. 8.
2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
3. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage.
4. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
Note: Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Saving \Sav"ing\ (s[=a]v"[i^]ng), preposition or conj.; but properly a participle. With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. ''Saving your reverence.'' --Shak. ''Saving your presence.'' --Burns.
None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing. --Neh. iv. 23.
And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. --Rev. ii. 17.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Saving \Sav"ing\, noun
1. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
2. Exception; reservation.
Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty. --L'Estrange.
{Savings bank}, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
saving
adjective
1: bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" [syn: {redemptive}, {redeeming(a)}, {saving(a)}]
2: characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow
noun
1: an act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents" [syn: {economy}]
2: recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" [syn: {rescue}, {deliverance}, {delivery}]
3: the activity of protecting something from loss or danger [syn: {preservation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "saving": Scotch, aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, but, cache, canny, careful, chary, cheeseparing, compensating, compensatory, conservancy, conservation, conservational, conservationism, conservationist, conservative, conservatory, conserving, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curtailment, cutback, deliverance, delivery, economic, economical, economization, economizing, economy, environmental conservation, ex, except, except for, excepting, excluding, exclusive of, excusing the liberty, extenuating, extenuatory, extrication, forehanded, forest conservation, forest management, freeing, frugal, frugality, hoard, in deference to, keeping, labor-saving, leaving out, let alone, liberation, lifesaving, low growth rate, maintenance, money-saving, nest egg, omitting, outside of, parsimonious, penny-wise, precluding, preserval, preservation, preservative, preservatory, preserving, protection, protective, providence, provident, prudence, prudent, prudential, qualifying, ransom, recovery, redeeming, redemption, redemptional, redemptive, reduction of expenses, reduction of spending, release, rescue, reserve, resources, retrenchment, retrieval, safekeeping, salvage, salvation, save, save and except, saving your reverence, savings, scraping, scrimping, skimping, slowdown, soil conservation, spare, sparing, sparingness, stream conservation, support, than, thrift, thrifty, time-saving, unless, unwasteful, upkeep, wary, water conservation, wetlands conservation, wildlife conservation, with all respect, with due respect, without
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