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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
save
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be saved from extinction
▪ There are hopes that the animals have now been saved from extinction.
daylight saving time
save a file
▪ Save the file under a different filename.
save fuel
▪ You can save fuel by not driving too fast.
save money (=use less money)
▪ Companies fired workers to save money.
save sb a seat (=tell other people not to sit there)
▪ I'll save you a seat next to me.
save sb from ruin
▪ He believes the invention saved him from financial ruin.
save sb/sth from oblivion
▪ The charity has saved many fine old buildings from oblivion.
save sb’s life
▪ The money you give will save the life of a child.
save sb’s sight
▪ Surgeons believe they can save her sight.
save the honour of sb/sth (=stop it being lost)
▪ Her father fought with him to save her honour.
save the whales
▪ Greenpeace campaigns to save the whales.
save the world (=help people in the world)
▪ She’s doing her bit to save the world.
save time
▪ I used a ready-made sauce in order to save time.
save up money
▪ She had saved up enough money to buy a car.
save your marriage (=do things to try to stay together as a married couple)
▪ They’re going to counseling to try to save their marriage.
saved...the bother of
▪ I should have phoned the shop first and saved myself the bother of going there.
save...hide (=save himself)
▪ He would say anything in court to try and save his own hide.
scrimped and saved
▪ They scrimped and saved for years to buy their own home.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ Sadly, drugs used in a desperate attempt to save his life made most of his organs unusable.
▪ Prosecutors say it was around this time that Kim conceived a fraud scheme in a desperate attempt to save his conglomerate.
▪ Horrified by his latest intentions, they were perhaps genuinely considering a last-ditch attempt to save him from himself.
▪ Our attempts to save fresh water by mixing in seawater when cooking rice or noodles had not had much success.
▪ Of course, you told me later that this was all done in an attempt to save my name.
▪ The man will either leap into the river in an attempt to save the child or he will not.
▪ In an attempt to save the wild, more and more has been tamed.
campaign
▪ Read in studio Conservationists have been celebrating the success of a campaign to save a series of weirs on the River Avon.
▪ Yet another child initiated a campaign to save a giant tree from being cut down.
▪ Meanwhile, however, the lack of adequate community care facilities has led to a campaign to save the old mental hospitals.
▪ San Francisco Beautiful was founded 50 years ago in a campaign to save the cable cars.
▪ If they die the whole campaign to save the condor by captive breeding could come under renewed attack.
▪ He is at the forefront of the campaign to save the Elephant from extinction.
▪ Yesterday, the parents renewed their campaign to save the school when they protested outside Strathclyde's headquarters in Glasgow.
▪ At the beginning of the year they began an advertising campaign encouraging people to save rather than spend.
costs
▪ One with a thermostat will cost more, but may save on running costs in warmer weather.
▪ They saved on water costs by no longer needing 1, 4-million gallons per week.
▪ There was a £27 / ha saving in seed costs.
▪ So to save costs -- many millions a year, experts say -- the company stopped doling out awards.
▪ Well, it saves on design costs.
▪ Although it saved them substantial costs, these cases were not exactly searing moral victories for the healthcare plans.
▪ Two-up printing also saves operating costs by squeezing more pages per linear foot of paper running through the printer.
▪ Thus, visitors save on the costs of searching out good information.
day
▪ It's only five minutes long but it saves the day.
▪ He brings her in, he saves the day.
▪ Doctors fought to save him in the days afterward.
▪ The servant: Clumsy, but he saved the day.
▪ The Grand Duke walked impressively in to save the day.
▪ What saves the day, then, is also what ruins the day: difference.
▪ And not even Glen Hoddle's magic touch could save the day.
▪ Then brother John showed up, just in time to save the day.
effort
▪ Yet another effort to save the banks from the destructive effects of this river.
▪ Lucky thing there was Old Chaostretching on like taffy, but in an effort to save her, it seemed.
▪ But Vialli's weak effort was saved by substitute goalkeeper Sebastiano Rossi.
▪ All efforts to save him failed.
▪ But the lure of golf is such that efforts to save the Club were considerable.
▪ Making no conscious effort to save or throw away old tickets, they become collectors.
▪ For that, they can thank modest human efforts to save their habitat, plus months of pouring rain.
▪ These gallant efforts failed to save the light cruisers.
file
▪ It will save you accessing the file manager program as often.
▪ A keyboard combination that saved a file in one program might delete a word in another.
▪ Remember to load and save the file in plain text mode.
▪ There are similar options when you are saving files or running programs.
▪ You can even use a word processor, as long as it will let you save the files as plain text.
▪ You can fill in who saved the file, the title, and so on.
▪ The Whiteboard can then be saved as a file that can be loaded for a particular conference.
▪ Before you continue to create the links, you must save your file into the directory that will be permanently storing it.
job
▪ She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job.
▪ If the government prevents progress, it does save some jobs in the old-fashioned firm.
▪ They say it's the only way to save nearly forty jobs.
▪ Likewise, preventing trade saves some jobs in the protected company.
▪ I am going to take the matter up with the company to try to save the jobs for Worcester.
▪ But manager Davey Johnson may need both those victories to save his job.
▪ Conservative back-benchers publicly welcomed the fall in inflation, but it is unlikely to be enough to save Mr Lamont's job.
▪ It never saved a single job, I think.
life
▪ Biggs immediately went to the rescue, and pulled both men to the shore, successfully saving their lives.
▪ My work has saved my life.
▪ It took 35 vials of anti-venom to save his life.
▪ Months later, still a drug abuser, he instinctively saves the life of a small-time hood at a nightclub.
▪ In order to save her life the doctors stopped the treatment for the leprosy.
▪ The swallow thanked Thumbelina for saving his life.
▪ I have cut him off, she knew, as a doctor will cut off a much-needed limb to save a life.
▪ Do we save it for life on an Iowa farm?
lot
▪ It would save me a lot of time and effort.
▪ If they had the courage to say that, they would have saved everyone a lot of trouble.
▪ This was going to save us a lot of money and trouble.
▪ Re-Chargeables Re-chargeable ni-cad batteries can obviously save you a lot of money.
▪ With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way.
▪ The mouse allows you to click the notes into position on the stave and saves a lot of keying time.
▪ It must save an awful lot of embarrassment.
money
▪ He remembered Anne laughing about how much fun it was to give away money they'd saved for retirement.
▪ The cost of the compensation was being met out of the money saved by cutting price subsidies.
▪ With the money he saved, he bought a respectable set of secondhand clothes on Chatham Square.
▪ What on earth was the point of collecting money to save the tower of a church that wasn't even beautiful?
▪ By measuring their return on investment, they understand when spending money will save them money.
▪ He figured out how much money would be saved if they reported half of their intake.
operation
▪ Two operations were needed to save his foot, and playing rugby again seemed as unlikely as Newport beating the All Blacks.
▪ Yesterday the youngster, who has not been named, was recovering in hospital from an emergency operation to save his sight.
skin
▪ But the traditional banana-producing countries are banding together to save their skins.
▪ The fishermen were simply making arrangements to save their own skins.
▪ So Cresci saved his skin, and Menotti flew home, blowing on his fingers.
▪ They had two towels they wetted in the by now black water to save the skin of their thighs.
▪ He is intent only on saving his own skin.
▪ It is not the first time he has resigned to save his political skin.
▪ Set against my wits and guile, Manly strength won't save your skin.
time
▪ That saved my butt several times.
▪ This obviously saves time in group sessions, but only if everyone does it.
▪ Every invention during our lifetime has been just to save time.
▪ This New Body Workout integrates both these elements-making it doubly effective, yet saves you time!
▪ Consolidating these facilities will save time and money, Near said.
▪ This saves time and is a lot quicker than walking.
▪ He taught me things that saved my life several times.
trouble
▪ We could dispense some justice and hang him from the bowsprit to save the courts the trouble.
▪ It saved her the trouble of putting gray powder in her hair.
▪ It saves me the trouble of going after you.
▪ Manny says, saving Primo the trouble.
▪ Act now, save trouble later!
▪ Blyth saved me the trouble of suggesting a game of football by doing it himself.
▪ Why not send government poll-takers door to door, saving voters the trouble of having to remember when Election Day falls?
world
▪ If he saves the world too often, he will vanish completely.
▪ It is nothing less than an opportunity to save or change the world.
▪ Certainly she was saving the world, but was that enough?
▪ From this grim situation the party was saved by the First World War.
▪ She was thin, taller than I, full of ideals and plans to save the world.
■ VERB
help
▪ But they say their real reward is knowing they've helped to save lives.
▪ For Hazel Rodgers, a 78-year-old glaucoma sufferer who credits marijuana with helping to save her eyesight.
▪ Soldiers and police tried to help but couldn't save the singers.
▪ Even with the goddess's help he could not save his wife.
▪ But a tracheotomy throat operation which helped to save his life may have changed his distinctive voice for ever.
▪ We need your help to save the past for future generations.
▪ I then had the first of the mad ideas that helped to save our lives.
try
▪ Three police officers who tried to save the children were beaten back by the intense heat and smoke.
▪ Bernie tries to save some dignity.
▪ The President was working grueling eighteen-hour days trying to save the Great Deal.
▪ Who were you in your arrogance to try to save him from his wish?
▪ He had tried to save one of his sheep from drowning in the river, and he drowned himself.
▪ A lot of public money went into trying to save what could be saved, or to help companies redeploy.
▪ Susan is trying to save my life.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stitch in time (saves nine)
save face
▪ Rather than admit defeat, Franklin compromised in order to save face.
▪ As a result of the turmoil, Frank resigned in order to save face.
▪ Bosnia would survive as a constitutional fiction, allowing the world to save face.
▪ By agreeing to the staged confrontation, Barnett would save face while permitting Meredith to register.
▪ Determined to save face, I kept devouring everything set before me.
▪ I had to do this to save face for my father.
▪ The important thing now was to let him save face.
▪ The only person that didn't was Fish, who had to save face and went on claiming it was true.
save sth for a rainy day
▪ Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Save the chicken bones to make stock later.
▪ Save your work and close down any applications that are open.
▪ Ben would have died in the blaze if a fireman hadn't saved him.
▪ Bob and Martha worked hard to save their marriage, for the sake of the children.
▪ Don't throw the wrapping paper away - I'm going to save it and use it again.
▪ Environmentalists are campaigning to save the white rhinoceros from extinction.
▪ Financial experts are trying to save one of Britain's biggest holiday companies from bankruptcy.
▪ How long did it take you to save all that money?
▪ I find it very difficult to save - I just spend everything I get.
▪ It's a low-paid job, but she still manages to save a few dollars each week.
▪ Michael was saved from choking to death by Susie.
▪ money-saving coupons
▪ My grandmother saved up all her old magazines.
▪ Officer McCarthy had saved her from a savage attack in the park.
▪ She planned to work until she had saved enough money to attend nursing school in Nashville.
▪ The President had been shot from close range. It was only his bullet-proof vest that saved him.
▪ They've already started saving for their next vacation.
▪ We're trying to save money to buy a house.
▪ We can save fifteen minutes by taking the expressway.
▪ Wearing a seat belt can help save your life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Did he give it to save his own neck?
▪ Estimates of the amount of money saved by the taxpayer over the five-year period vary widely.
▪ Even a few dollars worth of prevention can save you thousands and keep you in business.
▪ The Everqueen is saved by Tyrion.
▪ The first order of business is for the guys to save themselves from the elements, starvation, and that darn bear.
▪ Was this a massive bribe to save Will from a charge of infanticide and possibly the gallows?
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brilliant
▪ And the goalkeeper made a brilliant save to tip Philliskirk's long-range shot over the bar.
▪ Pat Gavin had a good scoring chance but Stephen Pears brought off a brilliant save.
▪ Gee struck the bar for Leicester and Pears brought off a brilliant save from Mills.
▪ Jamie Pollock came close to a late equaliser only to be denied with a brilliant save by James.
▪ He could have had a hat-trick but was denied by Miklosko's brilliant save.
▪ Justice was done when Stephen Pears denied Micky Hazard with a brilliant save.
▪ Glenavon keeper Robbie Beck was a virtual spectator but earned his pay-packet with a brilliant one-handed save from sub Michael Surgeon.
fine
▪ Forrest made another fine save, tipping Atkinson's 30-yard shot over his bar.
▪ One effort hit the bar and the other brought out a fine save from Burridge after deflecting off Payton.
▪ Shortly after the break, McCoist was again frustrated, this time denied by a fine save from Gouteev.
▪ Two minutes later Hooper pulled off another fine save from Andy Sinton's venomous shot.
▪ From the resulting corner Rhodes made another fine save, hurtling to his right to deflect away Dixon's rising shot.
▪ Churt tried hard to come back and Paul Jones in the Haslemere goal had to make one particularly fine diving save.
▪ The Ballynahinch keeper made a fine save from a Nigel Taggart flick on the right.
good
▪ A decent penalty, but a good save and an effective slice of psychology.
▪ Fred Barber made a good save from Robbie Mustoe when Ripley crossed into the middle.
▪ Only several good saves by Nicky Weaver kept the score down as Arsenal flexed their attacking muscles.
▪ Here's his best save or saves coming up.
▪ Full back Jimmy Phillips was denied by the best save of the match.
▪ Leeds brought a good save from the Southampton keeper with an indirect free kick before half-time.
▪ His best save was from substitute Bernie Slaven.
■ VERB
make
▪ Forrest made another fine save, tipping Atkinson's 30-yard shot over his bar.
▪ But Shilton should not have been allowed to make his crucial save.
▪ As it turned out, Rhodes had made the save.
▪ Linfield had the best chance of the half, however, Eachus making a stunning save from a Johnston shot.
▪ Sharks goalie Chris Terreri made 39 saves.
▪ Fred Barber made a good save from Robbie Mustoe when Ripley crossed into the middle.
▪ Flores again made a save but this time Jamelli was in place to put in the rebound.
pull
▪ Paul Reece pulled off the save of the match to make it Wolves 0.
▪ Fortunately, Alan Judge was in fine form, pulling off a great save to keep Hereford in the game.
▪ Two minutes later Hooper pulled off another fine save from Andy Sinton's venomous shot.
▪ Next it was Nixon's turn in the Tranmere goal to pull off a spectacular save from Mitchell.
▪ He pulled off a tremendous save from Sukristovas in the first half and denied the same player in the second.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few days before the midair save, another orb had been successfully recovered after a gentle landing in the sea.
▪ If the team is good and I make one or two or three saves, they will all be important.
▪ Len Barrie had the Panthers' other goal against Martin Brodeur, who had 22 saves.
▪ Muir's nimble footwork merited a second Rovers goal at the start of the second half but Heald's save prevented it.
▪ Pat Gavin had a good scoring chance but Stephen Pears brought off a brilliant save.
▪ Pears pulled off the save of the match from a Garry Nelson header in the opening minutes.
▪ San Jose goalie Chris Terreri stopped Perreault with a pad save.
▪ Whitehead's save kept his team in the game.
III.preposition
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The fee covers everything, save one dinner.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Save

Save \Save\, conj. Except; unless.

Save

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.

Save

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.

Save

Save \Save\, n. [See Sage the herb.] The herb sage, or salvi

  1. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

Save

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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
save

c.1200, "to deliver from some danger; rescue from peril, bring to safety," also "prevent the death of;" also theological, "to deliver from sin or its consequences; admit to eternal life; gain salvation," from Old French sauver "keep (safe), protect, redeem," from Late Latin salvare "make safe, secure," from Latin salvus "safe" (see safe (adj.)). From c.1300 as "reserve for future use, hold back, store up instead of spending;" hence "keep possession of" (late 14c.).\n

\nSave face (1898) first was used among the British community in China and is said to be from Chinese; it has not been found in Chinese, but tiu lien "to lose face" does occur. To not (do something) to save one's life is recorded from 1848. To save (one's) breath "cease talking or arguing" is from 1926.

save

in the sports sense of "act of preventing opponent from scoring," 1890, from save (v.).

save

"except," early 14c., from adjective save, which also was an early variant of safe (adj.), paralleling evolution in Old French sauf "safe," prepositional use of the adjective, in phrases such as saulve l'honneur "save (our) honor;" also a use in Latin (salva lege, etc.).

Wiktionary
save

conj. (context dated English) unless; except n. In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring. prep. except; with the exception of. vb. 1 (label en transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty. 2 # To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.

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WordNet
save

  1. v. save from ruin, destruction, or harm [syn: salvage, salve, relieve]

  2. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer" [syn: preserve]

  3. bring into safety; "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack" [syn: carry through, pull through, bring through]

  4. spend less; buy at a reduced price

  5. feather one's nest; have a nest egg; "He saves half his salary" [syn: 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: make unnecessary]

  7. save from sins [syn: deliver, redeem]

  8. refrain from harming [syn: spare]

  9. spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now" [syn: 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

n. (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save"

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Wikipedia
Save (baseball)

In baseball, a save (abbreviated SV or S) is credited to a pitcher who finishes a game for the winning team under certain prescribed circumstances, described below. The number of saves, or percentage of save opportunities successfully converted, is an oft-cited statistic of relief pitchers, particularly those in the closer role. It became an official Major League Baseball (MLB) statistic in . Mariano Rivera is MLB's all-time leader in regular season saves with 652.

Säve

Säve is a locality situated in Göteborg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 743 inhabitants in 2010.

The origin of the name Säve is the Old Swedish word "sjöe" (Modern Swedish "sjö"), meaning "lake".

Savé

Savé is a city in Benin, lying on the Cotonou- Parakou railway and the main north-south road. It is known for its local boulders, popular with climbers. "Savé" is the corrupted rendition of the historical Yoruba name Sabe

The commune covers an area of 2228 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 67,753 people.

Save (Garonne)

The Save is a 143 km long river in southern France, left tributary of the Garonne. Its source is in the northern foothills of the Pyrenees, south of Lannemezan. It flows north-east through the following départements and cities:

  • Hautes-Pyrénées.
  • Haute-Garonne: Grenade, L'Isle-en-Dodon.
  • Gers: L'Isle-Jourdain.

It flows into the Garonne in Grenade, north of Toulouse.

Among its tributaries is the Gesse.

Save (goaltender)

In several sports with goalkeepers or goaltenders protecting nets or goals, a save is credited to a goaltender that stops the playing object from entering the goal. These sports include football, ice hockey, and lacrosse, among others.

In ice hockey, a goaltender is credited with a save when they prevent a shot by the opponent from entering the net. A goaltender's efficiency in stopping shots, the save percentage, is calculated as a percentage of shots stopped divided by the total number of shots on goal.

In association football, a goalkeeper who does not concede any goals during a match is said to have "kept" a clean sheet. In certain competitions awards (such as the Premier League Golden Glove and the Football League Golden Glove) are given for the player who keeps the most clean sheets during the season or the tournament.

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Usage examples of "save".

She knew she could not scale a blank seven-foot wall fast enough to save herself, especially not with one stingingly abraded hand, so she studied the trees as she ran.

SA Banish delivered all four of the Abies children into safety, including single-handedly saving the lives of the oldest and the youngest at the expense of his own.

As he said the last words my converter rose, and went to the window to dry his tears, I felt deeply moved, anal full of admiration for the virtue of De la Haye and of his pupil, who, to save his soul, had placed himself under the hard necessity of accepting alms.

Although he was ignorant and devoid of any merit save a handsome face, he thought that an ecclesiastical career would insure his happiness, and he depended a great deal upon his preaching, for which, according to the opinion of the women with whom he was acquainted, he had a decided talent.

Resigned, I groped in the pocket of my skirt, where I had placed the small box containing the Chinese acupuncture needles that had saved his life on our Atlantic crossing.

He wanted to save me from the vampires, and only when Adeem interfered did he promise to turn me.

He was brought to justice, and sentenced to death, and his property was adjudged to his widow, who shortly after married the page who had saved her life.

The same pity Jordan had felt for the cheerful little waif who had saved his life and looked at him with huge, adoring eyes.

But pray, listen: all human beings who are born, however numerous and of whatever religion, can be saved if only they acknowledge God and live according to the precepts of the Decalog, which forbid committing murder, adultery, theft, and false witness because to do such things is contrary to religion and therefore contrary to God.

Solitude had killed every power in her save vanity, and the form her vanity took was peculiarly irritating to her husband, and in a lesser degree to her daughter, for neither the Elder nor Loo would have founded self-esteem on adventitious advantages of upbringing.

For two years he had lived on brown bread and dried apples, in order that he could save enough to buy a newspaper plant for the advocacy of reforms.

Frederiksen was tall, 185 centimeters, slender save for wide shoulders and the Aenean depth of chest.

Madagascar is the affidavit of Israel Phippany and Peter Freeland, at Portsmouth, March 31, 1705, and these mariners may have perjured themselves to save the lives of English seamen condemned by the Scots.

There was no light save the light shed abroad by the flashes of the blade, and in these they beheld the air suffocated with Afrites and Genii in a red and brown and white heat, followers of Karaz.

Cobden was agitating a scheme for returning to the expenditure of 1835, by which he alleged ten millions annually would have been saved.