save

From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”).

• enPR: sāv, IPA^(key): /seɪv/

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

save (plural saves)

1. In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.

   The goaltender made a great save.

   • 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC‎:

     Wolves defender Ronald Zubar was slightly closer with his shot on the turn as he forced Pepe Reina, on his 200th Premier League appearance, into a low save.

2. (baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead.

   Jones retired seven to earn the save.

3. (professional wrestling, slang) 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.

   The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save.

4. (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.

   If you're hit by a power cut, you'll lose all of your changes since your last save.

   The game console can store up to eight saves on a single cartridge.

5. (role-playing games) A saving throw.

save (third-person singular simple present saves, present participle saving, simple past and past participle saved)

1. (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
   1. To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.

      She was saved from drowning by a passer-by.

      We were able to save a few of our possessions from the house fire.

      • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:

        One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

   2. To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
      • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

        Thou hast […] quitted all to save / A world from utter loss.

   3. To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
      • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

        I'll save you / That labour, sir. All's now done.

   4. (theology) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.

      Jesus Christ came to save sinners.

   5. (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
      • 2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves

        Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.

2. To put aside, to avoid.
   1. (transitive) To store for future use.

      Let's save the packaging in case we need to send the product back.

   2. (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.

      Save electricity by turning off the lights when you leave the room.

      • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:

        An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

   3. (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
      • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden

        Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?

   4. (transitive, computing) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.

      Where did I save that document? I can't find it on the desktop.

   5. (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
   6. (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.

In computing sense “to write a file”, also used as phrasal verb save down informally. Compare other computing phrasal verbs such as print out and close out.

save

1. Except; with the exception of.

save

1. (dated) unless; except
   • 2009, Nicolas Brooke (translator), French Code of Civil Procedure in English 2008, Article 1 of Book One, quoted after: 2016, Laverne Jacobs and Sasha Baglay, The Nature of Inquisitorial Processes in Administrative Regimes: Global Perspectives, published by Routledge (first published in 2013 by Ashgate Publishing), p. 8:

     Only the parties may institute proceedings, save where the law shall provide otherwise.

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:

     Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

• save vs.
• save as

• AEVs, VASE, VESA, Veas, vaes, vase

French savez (“you know”) and English savvy have been suggested as origins, but Charpentier considers Portuguese sabe (“know”), influenced by its Spanish cognate, more likely. Compare Tok Pisin save.

save

1. to know
2. to be able to

   mi no save kam : I can't come

   mi save toktok Francis : I can speak French

• Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN

save c

1. indefinite plural of sav

save

1. Alternative form of sauf

save

1. Alternative form of sauf

save

1. Alternative form of sauf

save

1. Alternative form of sauf

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈsave/

save

1. inflection of savvit:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

Borrowed from English save.

save m (plural saves)

1. (informal, gaming) save file (of a video game or computer game)

   Eu cheguei mesmo na última fase, mas perdi meu save então terei que começar o jogo de novo.

   I did reach the final level, but I lost my save file so I'm gonna have to start the game over.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:save.

From Portuguese sabe (“know”). Compare Bislama save.

save

1. (transitive) to know
2. (transitive) to understand
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 18:21:

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3. (transitive) to make a practice or habit of
4. (transitive) to learn
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 3:22:

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• luksave

save

1. habitually
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:2:

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save

1. knowledge
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:9:

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