SAVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does save mean? 

• SAVE (noun)
  The noun SAVE has 1 sense:

1. (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring

  Familiarity information: SAVE used as a noun is very rare.

• SAVE (verb)
  The verb SAVE has 11 senses:

1. save from ruin, destruction, or harm

2. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use

3. bring into safety

4. spend less; buy at a reduced price

5. accumulate money for future use

6. make unnecessary an expenditure or effort

7. save from sins

8. refrain from harming

9. spend sparingly, avoid the waste of

10. retain rights to

11. record data on a computer

  Familiarity information: SAVE used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the relief pitcher got credit for a save

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

bar; prevention (the act of preventing)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

• SAVE (verb)

Conjugation:

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 "save" 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:

saver (someone who saves something from danger or violence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To keep up and reserve for personal or special use

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

preserve; save

Context example:

She saved the old family photographs in a drawer

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

hold on; keep (retain possession of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "save"):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

conserve; economise; economize; husband (use cautiously and frugally)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

saver (someone who saves (especially money))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Bring into safety

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bring through; carry through; pull through; save

Context example:

We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "save"):

deliver; rescue (free from harm or evil)

Sentence frames:

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

Sentence example:

They save him from writing the letter

Derivation:

savior (a person who rescues you from harm or danger)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Spend less; buy at a reduced price

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

"Save" entails doing...:

buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "save"):

scrimp; skimp; stint (subsist on a meager allowance)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something on somebody

Derivation:

saver (someone who saves (especially money))

Sense 5

Meaning:

Accumulate money for future use

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

lay aside; save; save up

Context example:

He saves half his salary

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "save"):

cache; hive up; hoard; lay away; squirrel away; stash (save up as for future use)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They save the money

Derivation:

savings (a fund of money put by as a reserve)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Make unnecessary an expenditure or effort

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

make unnecessary; save

Context example:

This will save you a lot of time

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

forbid; foreclose; forestall; preclude; prevent (keep from happening or arising; make impossible)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 7

Meaning:

Save from sins

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

deliver; redeem; save

Domain category:

faith; organized religion; religion (an institution to express belief in a divine power)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 8

Meaning:

Refrain from harming

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

save; spare

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

forbear; refrain (resist doing something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "save"):

favor; favour (treat gently or carefully)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 9

Meaning:

Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

economise; economize; save

Context example:

The less fortunate will have to economize now

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

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "save"):

tighten one's belt (live frugally and use less resources)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

saver (someone who saves (especially money))

Sense 10

Meaning:

Retain rights to

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

hold open; keep; keep open; save

Context example:

keep open the possibility of a merger

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

book; hold; reserve (arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance)

Verb group:

hold on; keep (retain possession of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 11

Meaning:

Record data on a computer

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

save; write

Context example:

boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk

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

record; tape (register electronically)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "save"):

overwrite (write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

You may be in time to save her yet—though it be for the gallows.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have no one to turn to—none, save only one, who cares for me, and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We are saved,” I said, soberly and solemnly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

My mother has no one, save me; wherefore I speak.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I do not know where I was, nor whom I spoke with, nor anything save what I have told you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of course, he was soon earning more than three dollars a week, and as his wages increased he saved more and more.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The master was running up, but was too far away; and it was Collie that saved the hound's life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It would have saved me something, sir.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I dare say, short answers save trouble.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I know the secret now. The sea will save me from Him, and it is all that is left!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)