save
Pronunciation: /seɪv/
The English word “save” has 20 meanings listed here.
verb
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- To store for future use.
- To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To economize or avoid waste.
- To accumulate money or valuables.
- To make an agreement to give (some amount of money) to a fellow gambler if one wins, and to receive that amount from them if they win, as a form of hedging.
- To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- To avoid saying something.
noun
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- 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.
- An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
Etymology
From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”). Displaced native Old English nerian.
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