SALVAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salvage mean? 

• SALVAGE (noun)
  The noun SALVAGE has 3 senses:

1. property or goods saved from damage or destruction

2. the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction

3. the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire

  Familiarity information: SALVAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

• SALVAGE (verb)
  The verb SALVAGE has 2 senses:

1. save from ruin, destruction, or harm

2. collect discarded material

  Familiarity information: SALVAGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALVAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Property or goods saved from damage or destruction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("salvage" is a kind of...):

commodity; good; trade good (articles of commerce)

belongings; holding; property (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone)

Derivation:

salvage; salve (save from ruin, destruction, or harm)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("salvage" is a kind of...):

deliverance; delivery; rescue; saving (recovery or preservation from loss or danger)

Derivation:

salvage; salve (save from ruin, destruction, or harm)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("salvage" is a kind of...):

deliverance; delivery; rescue; saving (recovery or preservation from loss or danger)

• SALVAGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they salvage    ... he / she / it salvages   
Past simple: salvaged   
Past participle: salvaged   
-ing form: salvaging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Save from ruin, destruction, or harm

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

relieve; salvage; salve; save

Hypernyms (to "salvage" is one way to...):

deliver; rescue (free from harm or evil)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

salvage (the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction)

salvage (property or goods saved from damage or destruction)

salvager (someone who salvages)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Collect discarded material

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

salvage; scavenge

Context example:

She scavenged the garbage cans for food

Hypernyms (to "salvage" is one way to...):

collect; garner; gather; pull together (assemble or get together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

salvager (someone who salvages)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase protein, plays a role in purine salvage.

(HPRT1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Limb-salvage surgery is done to help save the use and appearance of the limb.

(Limb-salvage surgery, NCI Dictionary)

UCK is the rate-limiting enzyme in the pyrimidine-nucleotide salvage pathway.

(Cytidine Analog RX-3117, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in nucleoside transport for nucleotide salvage.

(Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter 2, NCI Thesaurus)

MTAP is a key enzyme in the adenine and methionine salvage pathways.

(Alanosine, NCI Thesaurus)

An autosomal recessive deficiency of the purine salvage enzyme adenosine deaminase which results in Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (SCID).

(Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

MPA displays high lymphocyte specificity and cytotoxicity due to the higher dependence of activated lymphocytes on both salvage and de novo synthesis of guanine nucleotides relative to other cell types.

(Mycophenolate mofetil, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes adenine phosphoribosyltransferase protein, is involved in an AMP purine salvage reaction that recycles adenine into nucleic acids by formation of AMP from adenine and 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate.

(APRT wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Relative to other cell types, lypmocytes are highly dependent on salvage and de novo synthesis of guanine nucleotides, thus making these cells prone to MPA cytotoxicity.

(Mycophenolate Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in the purine salvage pathway.

(APRT Gene, NCI Thesaurus)