To save is to keep safe. So, you might save money for college, save a kitten from drowning, or save a dropped football.
The herb sage, or salvia.
Noun
(sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save"
Verb
make unnecessary an expenditure or effort; "This will save money"; "I''ll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time"
Verb
to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"
Verb
feather one''s nest; have a nest egg; "He saves half his salary"
Verb
spend less; buy at a reduced price
Verb
retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger"
Verb
spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now"
Verb
refrain from harming
Verb
save from ruin, destruction, or harm
Verb
save from sins
Verb
bring into safety; "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"
n.
The herb sage, or salvia.
a.
To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from
injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending
danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
a.
Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue
from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a
state of spiritual life.
a.
To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or
expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
a.
To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent
from doing something; to spare.
a.
To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the
necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
a.
To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
v. i.
To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent
waste; to be economical.
a.
Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting;
reserving; saving.
conj.
Except; unless.
Save
Save
God save all this fair company.
He cried, saying, Lord, save me.
Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from utter loss.2.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.3.
Now save a nation, and now save a groat.4.
I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done.5.
Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?6.
Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit.
Save
Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material.
Save
Five times received I forty stripes save one.
Save
The herb sage, or salvia.
To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger;
To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
Except; unless.
Usage Examples
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Other Usage ExamplesA lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
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