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save 1
(sāv)v. saved, sav·ing, saves
v.tr.
1.
a. To rescue from harm, danger, or loss: The lifeguard saved the struggling swimmer.
b. To prevent from dying: The doctors saved the patient.
c. To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem: prayed to save his soul.
2. To keep in a safe or healthy condition: God save King Richard!
3.
a. To hold back for future use: saved his best song for the encore.
b. To avoid spending (money) so as to keep or accumulate it.
c. To avoid spending (money or time) in an amount less than what circumstances normally require: saved $25 at the sale; saved 15 minutes by taking a shortcut.
d. To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve: bought an efficient device that saves electricity.
e. To treat with care by avoiding fatigue, wear, or damage; spare: wore sunglasses to save his eyesight.
4.
a. To make unnecessary; obviate: By carrying two bags you can save an extra trip.
b. To spare (someone) from having to do something.
5.
a. Sports To prevent (a goal) from being scored by blocking a shot. Used of a goalie.
b. To prevent an opponent from scoring (a point).
c. To preserve a victory in (a game).
d. Baseball To preserve (another pitcher's win) by protecting one's team's lead during a stint of relief pitching.
6. Computers To copy (a file) from a computer's main memory to a disk or other storage medium.
v.intr.
1. To avoid waste or expense; economize.
2. To accumulate money: saving for a vacation.
3. To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss.
n.
1. Sports An act that prevents a ball or puck from entering a goal.
2. Baseball A preservation by a relief pitcher of another pitcher's win.
save (one's) breath
To refrain from a futile appeal or effort: Save your breath; you can't dissuade them.
[Middle English saven, from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre, from Latin salvus, safe; see sol- in Indo-European roots.]
sav′a·ble, save′a·ble adj.
sav′er n.
Synonyms: save1, rescue, reclaim, redeem, deliver
These verbs mean freeing a person or thing from danger, evil, confinement, or servitude. Save is the most general: The smallpox vaccine has saved many lives. A police officer saved the tourist from being cheated. Rescue usually implies saving from immediate harm or danger by direct action: rescue a rare manuscript from a fire. Reclaim can mean to bring a person back, as from error to virtue or to right or proper conduct: "To reclaim me from this course of life was the sole cause of his journey to London" (Henry Fielding).
To redeem is to free someone from captivity or the consequences of sin or error; the term can imply the expenditure of money or effort: The amount paid to redeem the captured duke was enormous. Deliver applies to liberating people from something such as captivity, misery, or peril: "consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them" (George Washington).
save 2
(sāv)prep.
With the exception of; except: "No man enjoys self-reproach save a masochist" (Philip Wylie).
conj.
1. Were it not; except: The house would be finished by now, save that we had difficulty contracting a roofer.
2. Unless.
[Middle English, from Old French sauf, from Latin salvō, ablative sing. of salvus, safe; see sol- in Indo-European roots.]
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save
(seɪv)vb
1. (tr) to rescue, preserve, or guard (a person or thing) from danger or harm
2. to avoid the spending, waste, or loss of (money, possessions, etc)
3. (Theology) (tr) to deliver from sin; redeem
4. (often foll by up) to set aside or reserve (money, goods, etc) for future use
5. (tr) to treat with care so as to avoid or lessen wear or degeneration: use a good light to save your eyes.
6. (tr) to prevent the necessity for; obviate the trouble of: good work now will save future revision.
7. (General Sporting Terms) (tr) sport to prevent (a goal) by stopping (a struck ball or puck)
8. (intr) chiefly US (of food) to admit of preservation; keep
n
9. (General Sporting Terms) sport the act of saving a goal
10. (Computer Science) computing an instruction to write information from the memory onto a tape or disk
[C13: from Old French salver, via Late Latin from Latin salvus safe]
ˈsavable, ˈsaveable adj
ˈsavableness, ˈsaveableness n
ˈsaver n
save
(seɪv)prep
(often foll by for) Also: saving with the exception of
[C13 sauf, from Old French, from Latin salvō, from salvus safe]
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save1
(seɪv) v. saved, sav•ing,
n. v.t.
1. to rescue from danger or possible harm or loss.
2. to keep safe, intact, or unhurt; safeguard: God save the United States.
3. to keep from being lost: tried to save the game.
4. to avoid the spending, consumption, or waste of: to save fuel.
5. to set aside, reserve, or lay by: to save money.
6. to treat carefully in order to reduce wear, fatigue, etc.
7. to prevent the occurrence, use, or necessity of; obviate.
8. to deliver from the power and consequences of sin.
9. to copy (computer data) onto a hard or floppy disk, a tape, etc.
10. to stop (a ball or puck) from entering one's goal.
v.i.11. to lay up money as the result of economy or thrift.
12. to be economical in expenditure.
13. to preserve something from harm, loss, etc.
n.14. a goalkeeper's act of preventing a goal.
15. (in baseball) a statistical credit given a relief pitcher for preserving a team's victory by holding its lead.
[1175–1225; Middle English sa(u)ven < Old French sauver < Late Latin salvāre to save, derivative of Latin salvus safe, unharmed]
sav′a•ble, save′a•ble, adj.
sav′er, n.
save2
(seɪv)prep.
1. except; but: They all left save one.
conj.2. except; but: He would have gone, save that he had no money for travel.
[1250–1300; Middle English; variant of safe]
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save
Past participle: saved
Gerund: saving
| Imperative |
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| save |
| save |
| Present |
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| I save |
| you save |
| he/she/it saves |
| we save |
| you save |
| they save |
| Preterite |
|---|
| I saved |
| you saved |
| he/she/it saved |
| we saved |
| you saved |
| they saved |
| Present Continuous |
|---|
| I am saving |
| you are saving |
| he/she/it is saving |
| we are saving |
| you are saving |
| they are saving |
| Present Perfect |
|---|
| I have saved |
| you have saved |
| he/she/it has saved |
| we have saved |
| you have saved |
| they have saved |
| Past Continuous |
|---|
| I was saving |
| you were saving |
| he/she/it was saving |
| we were saving |
| you were saving |
| they were saving |
| Past Perfect |
|---|
| I had saved |
| you had saved |
| he/she/it had saved |
| we had saved |
| you had saved |
| they had saved |
| Future |
|---|
| I will save |
| you will save |
| he/she/it will save |
| we will save |
| you will save |
| they will save |
| Future Perfect |
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| I will have saved |
| you will have saved |
| he/she/it will have saved |
| we will have saved |
| you will have saved |
| they will have saved |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be saving |
| you will be saving |
| he/she/it will be saving |
| we will be saving |
| you will be saving |
| they will be saving |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I have been saving |
| you have been saving |
| he/she/it has been saving |
| we have been saving |
| you have been saving |
| they have been saving |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I will have been saving |
| you will have been saving |
| he/she/it will have been saving |
| we will have been saving |
| you will have been saving |
| they will have been saving |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I had been saving |
| you had been saving |
| he/she/it had been saving |
| we had been saving |
| you had been saving |
| they had been saving |
| Conditional |
|---|
| I would save |
| you would save |
| he/she/it would save |
| we would save |
| you would save |
| they would save |
| Past Conditional |
|---|
| I would have saved |
| you would have saved |
| he/she/it would have saved |
| we would have saved |
| you would have saved |
| they would have saved |
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
save
1. To store a program or document either internally on the computer’s hard disk or externally, usually on tape or disk.
2. Made by the goalkeeper or another player to stop the ball from entering the goal.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Noun | 1. |  save - (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save"athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition prevention, bar - the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" |
| Verb | 1. | save - save from ruin, destruction, or harm |
| 2. | save - to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer" keep, hold on - retain possession of; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married" economize, husband, economise, conserve - use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit" | |
| 3. | save - bring into safety; "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack" | |
| 4. | save - spend less; buy at a reduced price scrimp, stint, skimp - subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp" | |
| 5. | save - accumulate money for future use; "He saves half his salary" | |
| 6. |  save - make unnecessary an expenditure or effort; "This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time"foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, forbid - keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" | |
| 7. | save - save from sins organized religion, religion, faith - an institution to express belief in a divine power; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted him" | |
| 8. | save - refrain from harming refrain, forbear - resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping" | |
| 9. | save - spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now" tighten one's belt - live frugally and use less resources; "In the new economy, we all have to learn to tighten our belts" | |
| 10. | save - retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger" keep, hold on - retain possession of; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married" book, reserve, hold - arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's" | |
| 11. | save - record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk" computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures record, tape - register electronically; "They recorded her singing" overwrite - write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data; "overwrite that file" |
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save
verb
1. rescue, free, release, deliver, recover, get out, liberate, salvage, redeem, bail out, come to someone's rescue, set free, save the life of, extricate, save someone's bacon (British informal) She could have saved him from this final disaster.
rescue risk, expose, endanger, imperil, threaten, abandon
2. keep, reserve, set aside, store, collect, gather, hold, hoard, hide away, lay by, put by, salt away, treasure up, keep up your sleeve (informal), put aside for a rainy day I thought we were saving money for a holiday.
keep use, spend, waste, blow (slang), consume, discard, squander, use up, splurge, fritter away, be extravagant (with)
3. protect, keep, guard, preserve, look after, take care of, safeguard, salvage, conserve, keep safe a final attempt to save 40,000 jobs
4. budget, be economical, economize, scrimp and save, retrench, be frugal, make economies, be thrifty, tighten your belt (informal), watch your pennies, draw in your horns The majority of people intend to save.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
save
verb1. To extricate, as from danger or confinement:
Idiom: come to the rescue of.
2. To protect (an asset) from loss or destruction:
3. To use without wasting:
4. To reserve for the future.Also used with up:
5. To accumulate and set aside for future use.Also used with up:
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Translations
مَنْع الفَريق الآخَر من تَسْجيل أهدافيَحْفَظ مَعلومات في الحاسوبيَدَّخِريَصون، يُنْقِذ من الخَطيئَهيَمْنَع الفَريق الآخر من تَسْجيل أهْداف
zachránitkroměochránitodložitschovat si
redderedningskånesparespare op
ŝpari
säästääsäilyttäätallentaapelastaa
spasitištedjetispremitistaviti sa strane
idő: idõt megtakarítidő: idõt pocsékolmegment
bjargabjörgun, vörnfrelsakoma í veg fyrir mark, verjanema
･･･を蓄える取っておく救う
구해주다저축하다한쪽에 두다
aiztaupītatsist uzbrukumuatvairītglābtizglābt
ajutasalva
uchovaťušetriťzabránenie gólu
rešitishranitivarčevatibraniti
sparalägga åt sidanrädda
เก็บไว้เก็บสำรองไว้ช่วยชีวิต
cứutiết kiệm
save
1 [seɪv]
C. N (Sport) → parada f
to make a save → hacer una parada
SAVE THE CHILDREN
Save the Children es una organización benéfica fundada en el Reino Unido en 1919 para ayudar a los niños que sufrieron las secuelas de la Revolución Rusa y de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Hoy en día se dedica a ofrecer ayuda de emergencia a los niños de todo el mundo que sufren de inanición o son víctimas de los efectos de guerras y desastres naturales y desarrolla proyectos a largo plazo para mejorar la higiene, la nutrición y la educación, además de luchar para que los gobiernos den prioridad a los derechos de los niños.
save
2 [seɪv] PREP (liter) → salvo
all save one → todos excepto or menos uno
save for → excepto
save that → excepto que ...
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save
[ˈseɪv]
vt
(= keep) [+ food, receipt] → garder
to save sth for later → garder qch pour plus tard
to save sb sth, to save sth for sb → garder qch à qn
I saved you a piece of birthday cake → Je t'ai gardé un morceau du gâteau d'anniversaire.
Will you save me a place at your table? → Tu peux me garder une place à ta table?
(= avoid) [+ trouble, work, effort] → éviter
to save o.s. work → s'éviter du travail
vi (also save up) (= put money aside) → mettre de l'argent de côté
to save for sth, to save up for sth → mettre de l'argent de côté pour qch
I'm saving up for a new bike → Je mets de l'argent à côté pour un nouveau vélo.
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save
1
vt
(= avoid using up) fuel, time, space, money → sparen; (= spare) strength, eyes, battery → schonen; (= save up) strength, fuel etc → aufsparen; that will save you £20 a week → dadurch sparen Sie £ 20 die Woche; going by plane will save you four hours on the train journey → der Flug spart dir vier Stunden Reisezeit im Vergleich zum Zug; you don’t save much by taking this short cut → Sie gewinnen nicht viel, wenn Sie diese Abkürzung nehmen; he’s saving himself for the big match → er schont sich für das große Spiel; he’s saving himself for the right woman → er spart sich für die Richtige auf
(= prevent) bother, trouble → ersparen; at least it saved the rain coming in → es hat wenigstens den Regen abgehalten; it’ll save a lot of hard work if we … → es erspart uns (dat) → sehr viel Mühe, wenn wir …; it saved us having to do it again → das hat es uns (dat) → erspart, es noch einmal machen zu müssen; I’ve been saved a lot of expense → mir blieben or mir wurden sehr viel Ausgaben erspart
vi
(with money) → sparen; to save for something → für or auf etw (acc) → sparen; save as you earn (Brit: = savings scheme) Sparprogramm, bei dem der monatliche Beitrag unversteuert bleibt
save
2
prep → außer +dat
conj
save that → nur dass
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save1
(seiv) verb1. to rescue or bring out of danger. He saved his friend from drowning; The house was burnt but he saved the pictures.
2. to keep (money etc) for future use. He's saving (his money) to buy a bicycle; They're saving for a house.
3. to prevent the using or wasting of (money, time, energy etc). Frozen foods save a lot of trouble; I'll telephone and that will save me writing a letter.
4. in football etc, to prevent the opposing team from scoring a goal. The goalkeeper saved six goals.
5. to free from the power of sin and evil.
6. to keep data in the computer.
noun(in football etc) an act of preventing the opposing team from scoring a goal.
ˈsaver nouna person or thing that saves, avoids waste etc. The telephone is a great time-saver.
ˈsaving nouna way of saving money etc or the amount saved in this way. It's a great saving to be able to make one's own clothes.
ˈsavings noun pluralmoney saved up. He keeps his savings in the bank.
saviour , (American) savior (ˈseivjə) noun1. (usually with capital) a person or god who saves people from sin, hell etc.
2. a person who rescues a person etc from danger etc. He was the saviour of his country.
saving gracea good quality that makes up for a fault. His speeches are boring but they have the saving grace of being short.
savings accountan account in a bank or post office on which interest is paid.
savings banka bank that receives small savings and gives interest.
save upto save. He's been saving up for a new bike.
save2
(seiv) preposition, conjunctionexcept. All save him had gone; We have no news save that the ship reached port safely.
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save
→ يَدَّخِر, يُنْقِذُ, يُوَفِّرُ odložit, schovat si, zachránit lægge til side, redde, spare op beiseite legen, retten, sparen αποθηκεύω, αποταμιεύω, σώζω ahorrar, dejar a un lado, guardar, salvar pelastaa, säästää garder, mettre de côté, sauver spasiti, staviti sa strane, štedjeti conservare, mettere da parte, salvare ･･･を蓄える, 取っておく, 救う 구해주다, 저축하다, 한쪽에 두다 opsparen, opzijzetten, redden legge til side, spare odłożyć, oszczędzać, uratować deixar de lado, pôr de lado, poupar, salvar откладывать, сохранить, сохранять lägga åt sidan, spara เก็บไว้, เก็บสำรองไว้, ช่วยชีวิต biriktirmek, kurtarmak cứu, tiết kiệm 存, 救, 节约Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
save
v. salvar, [energy, money] ahorrar; [time] aprovechar el tiempo.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
save
vt salvar; We want to save your leg ..Queremos salvar su pierna.
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