save

(sāv)

v., saved, sav·ing, saves.

v.tr.

1. 1. To rescue from harm, danger, or loss.
   2. To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem.
2. To keep in a safe condition; safeguard.
3. To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve.
4. 1. To avoid spending (money) so as to keep or accumulate it.
   2. 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.
5. To set aside for future use; store.
6. To treat with care by avoiding fatigue, wear, or damage; spare: save one's eyesight.
7. To make unnecessary; obviate: Your taking the trunk to the attic has saved me an extra trip.
8. 1. Sports. To prevent (a goal) from being scored by an opponent.
   2. To preserve a victory in (a game).
   3. Baseball. To preserve (another pitcher's win) by protecting one's team's lead during a stint of relief pitching.
9. Computer Science. To copy (a file) from a computer's main memory to a 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 an opponent from scoring.
2. Baseball. A preservation by a relief pitcher of another pitcher's win.

idiom:

save (one's) breath

1. 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.]

savable sav'a·ble or save'a·ble adj.
saver sav'er n.

SYNONYMS   save, 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 price for redeeming the hostages was extortionate. Deliver applies to liberating people from something such as misery, peril, error, or evil: "consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them" (George Washington).

save² (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.]

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as a conjunction (in combination with that) or preposition equivalent to except or but has a more formal or literary ring to it:

There was little chance of seeing her...save as a sari-shrouded figure on the occasion of her marriage—M. M. Kaye, 1978

He had no answer—save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability—New Scientist, 1991.

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To copy the document, record or image being worked on to a storage medium. If the file has already been created on the hard disk, saving updates the file by writing the data currently in memory (RAM) to the disk. All modern applications prompt the user to save data upon exiting if the user has made any changes to them.

Save to Disk

All processing is done in memory (RAM). When the processing is completed, the data must be placed onto a permanent storage medium, which is generally the hard disk. In the past, it might have been magnetic tape. See Save As.

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Write computer data to a semipermanent storage medium, such as a floppy disk, hard disk, tape backup, or cd - rom. Until saved, data exist only in the computer’s volatile ram.

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verb

1. To extricate, as from danger or confinement: deliver, rescue. Idioms: come to the rescue of. See help/harm/harmless.
2. To protect (an asset) from loss or destruction: conserve, husband, preserve. See keep/release.
3. To use without wasting: conserve, economize, spare. See save/waste.
4. To reserve for the future. keep, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put by, salt away, set by. See keep/release, save/waste.
5. To accumulate and set aside for future use. lay in, lay up, stockpile, store (up). See keep/release.

Idioms beginning with save:
save for a rainy day
saved by the bell
save face
save one's bacon
save one's breath
save the day
save up

See also penny saved is a penny earned; rainy day, save for a; scrimp and save; to save one's life.

v

Definition: economize; set aside
Antonyms: fritter away, spend, squander, throw away, use up, waste

v

Definition: guard, protect
Antonyms: endanger, leave open, make vulnerable

v

Definition: rescue
Antonyms: endanger, harm, hurt

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To except, reserve, or exempt; as where a statute saves vested—fixed—rights. To toll, or suspend the running or operation of; as, to save the statute of limitations.

IN BRIEF: Capable of being salvaged.

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For a list of words related to save, see:

• Software, Languages, and Programming - save: command to write data or an update to a hard disk, floppy, etc.
• Memory and Data Storage - save: place data on nonvolatile magnetic media for storage
• Spending, Receiving, and Possessing Wealth - save: (vb) avoid expense so as to put money aside for future use
• Baseball - save: the statistic credited to the last relief pitcher used by the winning team, provided that certain criteria are met
• Hockey
• Conjunctions
• Prepositions
• Limitations and Conditions

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
v. tr. - redde, frelse, bevare, gemme, klare
v. intr. - spare
n. - redning

idioms:

• save appearances    redde skindet
• save as you earn    automatisk opsparing
• save for a rainy day    spare op til dårlige tider
• save on    spare på
• save one's bacon    slippe helskindet fra, beholde skindet på næsen
• save one's breath    spare sine gode råd, spare sine ord
• save one's neck    slippe godt fra det, redde skindet, redde sig fra galgen
• save one's skin    redde pelsen, redde skindet
• save someone's blushes    spare på rosen
• save the day    redde dagen
• save the trouble    spare sig ulejligheden
• saved by the bell    reddet af gongongen

2.
prep. - undtagen, på nær
conj. - medmindre

Nederlands (Dutch)
sparen, redden, beschermen, ontzien, bewaren, behouden, besparen, behalve

Français (French)
1.
v. tr. - sauver, garder, préserver, mettre de côté, économiser, épargner (qch à qn), (Relig) sauver, (Comput) sauvegarder, enregistrer
v. intr. - épargner, économiser, mettre de côté, gagner (du temps), collectionner
n. - (Sport) arrêt de but, (Comput) sauvegarde

idioms:

• save appearances    sauver les apparences
• save as you earn    (GB) plan d'épargne par prélèvement mensuel aux intérêts exonérés d'impôts
• save on    faire des économies de
• save one's bacon    sauver sa peau
• save one's breath    économiser son souffle
• save one's neck    sauver sa peau
• save one's skin    sauver sa peau
• save someone the trouble    épargner à qn la peine de (faire qch)
• save someone's blushes    éviter l'embarras de qn
• save the day    gagner la bataille
• saved by the bell    sauvé par le gong

2.
prep. - excepté, sauf
conj. - excepté

Deutsch (German)
1.
v. - retten, sparen, verhindern, aufheben
n. - Abwehr

idioms:

• save appearances    den Schein wahren
• save as you earn    Sparen durch regelmäßige Abbuchung vom Gehaltskonto
• save on    sparen an
• save one's bacon    seine Haut retten
• save one's breath    sich seine Worte sparen
• save one's neck    seine Haut retten, mit dem Leben davonkommen, seinen Kopf retten
• save one's skin    seine Haut retten
• save someone the trouble    (jmdm.) den Ärger sparen
• save someone's blushes    jemanden nicht in Verlegenheit bringen
• save the day    die Situation retten
• saved by the bell    gerade nochmal davongekommen

2.
prep. - außer
conj. - außer

Ελληνική (Greek)
prep. - εκτός από
conj. - εκτός του ότι
v. - γλιτώνω, (δια)σώζω, περισώζω, εξοικονομώ, αποταμιεύω, κάνω οικονομίες, διαφυλάσσω, (Η/Υ) αποθηκεύω
n. - (αθλοπ.) απόκρουση (τέρματος)

idioms:

• save appearances    περισώζω τα προσχήματα
• save as you earn    (Βρετ.) αποταμίευση εισοδήματος με τακτικές κρατήσεις μισθού
• save for a rainy day    φυλάω για ώρα ανάγκης
• save on    κάνω οικονομία σε
• save one's bacon    γλιτώνω το τομάρι μου
• save one's breath    δεν χάνω τα λόγια μου
• save one's neck    γλιτώνω το τομάρι μου
• save one's skin    γλιτώνω το τομάρι μου
• save someone's blushes    προσπαθώ να μη φέρω σε δύσκολη θέση
• save the day    σώζω την κατάσταση
• save the trouble    γλιτώνω από τον κόπο
• saved by the bell    διασωθείς την τελευταία στιγμή

Italiano (Italian)
salvo, conservare, salvare, risparmiare, proteggere, economizzare, perdonare

idioms:

• save appearances    salvare le apparenze
• save as you earn    risparmio con ritenuta alla fonte
• save on    risparmiare su
• save one's breath    risparmiare il fiato
• save one's skin/neck    salvarsi la pelle
• save someone's bacon    salvar la pelle
• save the day    salvare la situazione
• save the trouble    risparmiarsi la fatica

Português (Portuguese)
prep. - exceto
conj. - salvo
v. - economizar
n. - defesa (f)

idioms:

• save appearances    salvar as aparências
• save as you earn    economizar ao receber
• save on    continuar a economizar
• save one's breath    prender a respiração
• save one's skin/neck    salvar a pele/pescoço
• save the day    salvar o dia
• save the trouble    evitar o problema

Русский (Russian)
спасать, беречь, экономить, копить, приберегать, охранять, спасать душу, сохранять, отбить нападение (футбол), остановить шайбу (хоккей), кроме, за исключением, если не, если бы не, остановка шайбы вратарем (хоккей), предотвращение прорыва (футбол)

idioms:

• save appearances    делать вид, что ничего на произошло
• save as you earn    программа сбережения накоплений посредством месячных взносов
• save on    за исключением, откладывать из
• save one's breath    помалкивать, держать язык за зубами
• save one's skin/neck    спасать свою шкуру
• save someone's bacon    выйти целым и невредимым
• save the day    спасать положение
• save the trouble    избавить от необходимости

Español (Spanish)
1.
v. tr. - salvar, ahorrar, economizar, proteger, guardar, preservar, salvaguardar, (comp) guardar
v. intr. - ahorrarse, ahorrar, economizar, proteger, guardar, preservar
n. - un acto de prevención

idioms:

• save appearances    salvar las apariencias
• save as you earn    método de ahorro
• save on    economizar en
• save one's bacon    salvarse el pellejo
• save one's breath    callarse, no gastar saliva en balde
• save one's neck    salvar el pellejo
• save one's skin    salvar el pellejo
• save someone the trouble    ahorrarse la molestia, ahorrarle la molestia a alguien
• save someone's blushes    abstenerse de causar vergüenza con elogios
• save the day    salvar la situación
• saved by the bell    lo salvó el gong, lo salvó la campana

2.
prep. - excepto, salvo, menos, a excepción de
conj. - si no fuera, a no ser, a menos que, salvando

Svenska (Swedish)
prep. - utom, så när som på, med undantag av
conj. - utom att
v. - rädda, bärga, bevara, skydda, frälsa, spara, lägga undan, hålla, reservera
n. - räddning (sport)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 救, 挽救, 避免, 节省, 省去, 储蓄, 节约, 积蓄, 救球

idioms:

• save appearances    保全面子
• save as you earn    边赚钱边储蓄
• save for a rainy day    储蓄一些钱以防不测
• save on    节省
• save one's bacon    保全自己性命, 使自己达到目的
• save one's breath    沉默, 不出声
• save one's neck    免受绞刑, 免于遭难
• save one's skin    保护自己, 使自己免遭杀害
• save someone's blushes    不让某人受窘
• save the day    反败为胜
• save the trouble    免去麻烦
• saved by the bell    因铃声宣告时间到而幸免于败

2. 除...之外, 只是, 要不是, 除了

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
v. tr. - 救, 挽救, 避免, 節省, 省去, 儲蓄
v. intr. - 儲蓄, 節省, 節約, 積蓄, 救, 挽救
n. - 救球

idioms:

• save appearances    保全面子
• save as you earn    邊賺錢邊儲蓄
• save for a rainy day    儲蓄一些錢以防不測
• save on    節省
• save one's bacon    保全自己性命, 使自己達到目的
• save one's breath    沈默, 不出聲
• save one's neck    免受絞刑, 免於遭難
• save one's skin    保護自己, 使自己免遭殺害
• save someone's blushes    不讓某人受窘
• save the day    反敗為勝
• save the trouble    免去麻煩
• saved by the bell    因鈴聲宣告時間到而幸免於敗

2.
prep. - 除...之外
conj. - 只是, 要不是, 除了

한국어 (Korean)
1.
v. tr. - 구하다, (돈을) 모으다, (죄에서) 구제하다
v. intr. - 구제하다, 저금하다, (음식물이) 오래 가다
n. - 상대편의 득점을 저지하기, (야구에서 투수의) 세이브, (컴퓨터) 저장

idioms:

• save on    ~을 절약하다, 허비하지 않다

2.
prep. - ~을 제외하고, 이외에, ~은 별도로 하고
conj. - ~이라는 것을 빼고는, ~이 아니면, ~밖에는

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 救う, 蓄える, 貯蓄する, 省く, 節約する, 取っておく, 罪から救う, 保護する, 貯える
prep. - 除けば

idioms:

• save appearances    世間体を保つ
• save as you earn    稼いだだけ貯蓄する
• save face    面目を保つ
• save for a rainy day    万一のために貯金する
• save on    節約する
• save one's (own) skin    難を逃れる
• save one's bacon    被害を危うく免れる
• save one's breath    黙っている
• save one's hide    難を逃れる
• save one's neck    絞首刑を免れる
• save one's skin/neck    無事にのがれさせる
• save someone's bacon    目的を達成させる, 難を逃れる
• save the day    苦境を救う, 成功をものにする, 困難から救う
• save the trouble    手間を省く

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(حرف جر) بأستثناء, ما عدا (حرف عطف) مالم, لولا (فعل) يدخر, ينقذ, ينجي (الاسم) ضربه ألمعلم, عمل يحول بين ألخصم و بين تسجيل هدف في كرة ألقدم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮הציל, גאל‬
v. intr. - ‮שמר, חסך‬
n. - ‮הצלת שער (ע"י השוער)‬
prep. - ‮מלבד‬
conj. - ‮חוץ מ-, פרט ל-‬

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