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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAVE, v.t. [L. salvo. As salve is used in Latin for salutation or wishing health, as hail is in English, I suspect this word to be from the root of heal or hail, the first letter being changed. Gr. See Salt.]
1. To preserve from injury, destruction or evil of any kind; to rescue from danger; as, to save a house from the flames; to save a man from drowning; to save a family from ruin; to save a state from war.
He cried, saying Lord, save me. Matthew 14. Genesis 45.
2. To preserve from final and everlasting destruction; to rescue from eternal death.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. 1 Timothy 1.
3. To deliver; to rescue from the power and pollution of sin.
He shall save his people from their sins. Matthew 1.
4. To hinder from being spent or lost; as, to save the expense of a new garment. Order in all affairs saves time.
5. To prevent. method in affairs saves much perplexity.
6. To reserve or lay by for preservation.
Now save a nation, and now save a groat.
7. To spare; to prevent; to hinder from occurrence.
Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?
Silent and unobserv'd, to save his tears.
8. To salve; as, to save appearances.
9. To take or use opportunely, so as not to lose. The ship sailed in time to save the tide.
10. To except; to reserve from a general admission or account.
Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only. Josh 11.
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes, save one. 2 Corinthians 11.
[Save is here a verb followed by an object. It is the imperative used without a specific nominative; but it is now less frequently used than except.]
SAVE, v.i. To hinder expense.
Brass ordinance saveth in the quantity of the material.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save" v
1: save from ruin, destruction, or harm [syn: salvage, salve, relieve, save]
2: to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer" [syn: save, preserve]
3: bring into safety; "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack" [syn: save, carry through, pull through, bring through]
4: spend less; buy at a reduced price
5: accumulate money for future use; "He saves half his salary" [syn: save, lay aside, save up]
6: make unnecessary an expenditure or effort; "This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time" [syn: save, make unnecessary]
7: save from sins [syn: deliver, redeem, save]
8: refrain from harming [syn: spare, save]
9: spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now" [syn: save, economize, economise]
10: retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger" [syn: keep open, hold open, keep, save]
11: record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk" [syn: write, save]

Merriam Webster's

geographical name — see Sabi

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (saved; saving) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French salver, from Late Latin salvare, from Latin salvus safe — more at safe Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. to deliver from sin b. to rescue or deliver from danger or harm c. to preserve or guard from injury, destruction, or loss d. to store (data) in a computer or on a storage device (as a floppy disk or CD) 2. a. to put aside as a store or reserve ; accumulate <saving money for emergencies> b. to spend less by <save 25 percent> 3. a. to make unnecessary ; avoid <it saves an hour's driving> b. (1) to keep from being lost to an opponent (2) to prevent an opponent from scoring or winning 4. maintain, preserve <save appearances> intransitive verb 1. to rescue or deliver someone 2. a. to put aside money b. to avoid unnecessary waste or expense ; economize c. to spend less money <buy now and save> 3. to make a save Synonyms: see rescue • savable or saveable adjective • saver noun II. noun Date: 1890 1. a play that prevents an opponent from scoring or winning 2. the action of a relief pitcher in baseball in successfully protecting a team's lead; also official credit for a save III. preposition Etymology: Middle English sauf, from Anglo-French sauve, from sauf, adjective, safe — more at safe Date: 14th century other than ; but, except <no hope save one> IV. conjunction Date: 14th century 1. except for the fact that ; only — used with that <of his earlier years little is known, save that he studied violin — J. N. Burk> 2. but, except — used before a word often taken to be the subject of a clause <no one knows about it save she>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v. & n. --v. 1 tr. (often foll. by from) rescue, preserve, protect, or deliver from danger, harm, discredit, etc. (saved my life; saved me from drowning). 2 tr. (often foll. by up) keep for future use; reserve; refrain from spending (saved up £150 for a new bike; likes to save plastic bags). 3 tr. (often refl.) a relieve (another person or oneself) from spending (money, time, trouble, etc.); prevent exposure to (annoyance etc.) (saved myself £50; a word processor saves time). b obviate the need or likelihood of (soaking saves scrubbing). 4 tr. preserve from damnation; convert (saved her soul). 5 tr. & refl. husband or preserve (one's strength, health, etc.) (saving himself for the last lap; save your energy). 6 intr. (often foll. by up) save money for future use. 7 tr. a avoid losing (a game, match, etc.). b prevent an opponent from scoring (a goal etc.). c stop (a ball etc.) from entering the goal. --n. 1 Football etc. the act of preventing an opponent's scoring etc. 2 Bridge a sacrifice-bid to prevent unnecessary losses. Phrases and idioms: save-all 1 a device to prevent waste. 2 hist. a pan with a spike for burning up candle-ends. save appearances present a prosperous, respectable, etc. appearance. save-as-you-earn Brit. a method of saving by regular deduction from earnings at source. save one's breath not waste time speaking to no effect. save a person's face see FACE. save the situation (or day) find or provide a solution to difficulty or disaster. save one's skin (or neck or bacon) avoid loss, injury, or death; escape from danger. save the tide get in or out (of port etc.) while it lasts. save the trouble avoid useless or pointless effort. Derivatives: savable adj. (also saveable). Etymology: ME f. AF sa(u)ver, OF salver, sauver f. LL salvare f. L salvus SAFE 2. prep. & conj. archaic or poet. --prep. except; but (all save him). --conj. (often foll. by for) unless; but; except (happy save for one want; is well save that he has a cold). Etymology: ME f. OF sauf sauve f. L salvo, salva, ablat. sing. of salvus SAFE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Save Save, prep. or conj. [F. sauf, properly adj., safe. See Safe, a.] Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. Five times received I forty stripes save one. --2 Cor. xi. 24. Syn: See Except.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Save Save, conj. Except; unless.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Save Save, n. [See Sage the herb.] The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Save Save, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saved; p. pr. & vb. n. Saving.] [OE. saven, sauven, salven, OF. salver, sauver, F. sauver, L. salvare, fr. salvus saved, safe. See Safe, a.] 1. 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. God save all this fair company. --Chaucer. He cried, saying, Lord, save me. --Matt. xiv. 30. Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from utter loss. --Milton. 2. (Theol.) 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. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. --1 Tim. i. 15. 3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve. Now save a nation, and now save a groat. --Pope. 4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare. I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done. --Shak. 5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare. Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? --Dryden. 6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit. --Swift. To save appearances, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things. Syn: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Save Save, v. i. To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical. Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material. --Bacon.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(saves, saving, saved) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you save someone or something, you help them to avoid harm or to escape from a dangerous or unpleasant situation. ...a final attempt to save 40,000 jobs in Britain's troubled aero industry... A new machine no bigger than a 10p piece could help save babies from cot death... The national health system saved him from becoming a cripple. VERB: V n, V n from n/-ing, V n from n/-ing • -saving His boxing career was ended after two sight-saving operations. COMB in ADJ 2. If you save, you gradually collect money by spending less than you get, usually in order to buy something that you want. The majority of people intend to save, but find that by the end of the month there is nothing left... Tim and Barbara are now saving for a house in the suburbs... They could not find any way to save money. VERB: V, V for n, V n • Save up means the same as save. Julie wanted to put some of her money aside for holidays or save up for something special... People often put money aside in order to save up enough to make one major expenditure. PHRASAL VERB: V P for n, V P n (not pron) 3. If you save something such as time or money, you prevent the loss or waste of it. It saves time in the kitchen to have things you use a lot within reach... I'll try to save him the expense of a flight from Perth... I got the fishmonger to skin the fish which helped save on the preparation time. ? waste VERB: V n, V n n, V on n • -saving ...labor-saving devices. COMB in ADJ 4. If you save something, you keep it because it will be needed later. Drain the beans thoroughly and save the stock for soup... VERB: V n 5. If someone or something saves you from an unpleasant action or experience, they change the situation so that you do not have to do it or experience it. The scanner will save risk and pain for patients... She was hoping that something might save her from having to make a decision... He arranges to collect the payment from the customer, thus saving the client the paperwork. VERB: V n, V n from n/-ing, V n n 6. If you save data in a computer, you give the computer an instruction to store the data on a tape or disk. (COMPUTING) Try to get into the habit of saving your work regularly... Import your scanned images from the scanner and save as a JPG file. VERB: V n, V as n 7. If a goalkeeper saves, or saves a shot, they succeed in preventing the ball from going into the goal. He saved one shot when the ball hit him on the head. VERB: V n • Save is also a noun. Spurs could have had several goals but for some brilliant saves from John Hallworth. N-COUNT 8. You can use save to introduce the only things, people, or ideas that your main statement does not apply to. (FORMAL) There is almost no water at all in Mochudi save that brought up from bore holes. = apart from PREP • Save for means the same as save. The parking lot was virtually empty save for a few cars clustered to one side. = apart from PREP-PHRASE 9. to save the day: see day to save face: see face

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

sav: In the sense "except," the word came into English through the French (sauf) and is fairly common (38 times, in addition to "saving," the King James Version Ec 5:11; Am 9:8; Mt 5:32; Lu 4:27; Re 2:17). It represents no particular Hebrew or Greek terms but is employed wherever it seems useful. It is still in good (slightly archaic) use, and the Revised Version (British and American) has few modifications (De 15:4 the King James Version; Ps 18:31, etc.), but the English Revised Version has dropped "saving" in Lu 4:27 and Re 2:17 and the American Standard Revised Version also in Ec 5:11; Am 9:8, retaining it only in Mt 5:32.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Rescue, keep, preserve. 2. Preserve, rescue, redeem. 3. Deliver, rescue, keep clear. 4. Reserve, keep, hold, husband, lay up, lay by, gather, hoard, economize. 5. Spare, prevent, hinder, obviate, insure against. 6. Catch, be in time for. II. prep. Except, leaving out, not including, deducting, excepting.

Moby Thesaurus

abet, abstain, accumulate, aid, amass, anticipate, aside from, assist, avail, avert, backlog, bail out, bar, barring, bear a hand, befriend, benefit, beside, besides, bottle up, but, cache, collect, comfort, conserve, convert, copyright, cork up, cumulate, debar, defend, deflect, deliver, deposit, deter, discounting, discourage, dishearten, dispense with, do good, do without, doctor, ease, economize, enforce economies, estop, ex, except, except for, except that, excepting, exception taken of, exclude, excluding, exclusive of, extract, extricate, favor, fend, fend off, forbear, forbid, foreclose, forestall, forgo, free, from, garner, garner up, gather into barns, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give help, give salvation, guard, heap up, help, hide, hoard, hoard up, hold, hold back, hold in, hold off, however, husband, if not, inhibit, keep, keep alive, keep back, keep by one, keep from, keep in, keep in hand, keep in reserve, keep in store, keep intact, keep inviolate, keep off, keep on hand, keep safe, keep up, keep within compass, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, leaving out, lend a hand, lend one aid, less, let alone, liberate, lock in, maintain, make ends meet, make sure, manage, minus, not counting, not destroy, not endanger, not expend, not touch, not use, not use up, not waste, obviate, off, omitting, outside of, patent, pile up, play safe, preclude, precluding, preserve, prevent, proffer aid, prohibit, protect, put apart, put aside, put away, put by, put something aside, put up, rally, ransom, reclaim, recover, redeem, reform, refrain, regenerate, register, release, relieve, remedy, render assistance, repel, repress, rescue, reserve, restore, resuscitate, retain, retrieve, revive, rule out, safeguard, salt away, salvage, save and except, save up, saving, scrape, scrape and save, scrimp, secrete, secure, set apart, set aside, set by, set free, set up, shelter, shield, skimp, spare, squirrel, squirrel away, stave off, stock up, stockpile, store up, stow, succor, support, suppress, sustain, take in tow, take precautions, than, treasure, treasure up, turn aside, unchain, unless, unless that, unshackle, uphold, waive, ward off, were it not, withhold, without, yet