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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
salvage
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ Abercrombie's work is not alone in its attempt to salvage the sociology of knowledge in recent years.
▪ So finally, in a last-ditch attempt to salvage the exercise as a whole, the following workshop activity was developed.
pride
▪ She could never hope to rescue her heart, but at least she could salvage her pride.
■ VERB
try
▪ He would rather go down fighting, and try to salvage whatever he could from the wreckage of his dreams.
▪ However, to try to salvage these items would be very costly.
▪ Two sergeants and I stayed behind to try to salvage as much as we could of our stores of food.
▪ Celia tried to salvage what she could, but she knew few of the journalists personally.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If you no longer care for your partner, it is time to ask what can be salvaged from your relationship.
▪ Retailing and tourism can't salvage an ailing economy.
▪ Some observers doubt whether the peace process can be salvaged.
▪ The company is busy trying to salvage its core business.
▪ The fire had destroyed most of the building, but we managed to salvage a few valuable items.
▪ The house was built of timber salvaged from an earlier building.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A huge fire blazed outside on which we piled everything that could not be salvaged.
▪ Beginning Sunday, fish bag-limit restrictions will be lifted at four lakes so that anglers can salvage fish that may be lost.
▪ I see you've salvaged your sleeping-bag, Mr Parsons.
▪ Only something dramatic can salvage the promise he once showed, and Norris knows he can not do it alone.
▪ Retailing and tourism can't salvage an ailing economy.
▪ She could never hope to rescue her heart, but at least she could salvage her pride.
▪ Some 25 pounds of enriched uranium were apparently salvaged from Osirak.
▪ The one real consolation that could be salvaged from the whole sorry affair was that the system had worked in the end.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
operation
▪ It was argued that the fierce weather which had prevented a salvage operation also helped break up the oil.
▪ On important archaeological sites torn up by windblown salvage operations were carried out.
▪ The more dramatic was the salvage operation.
▪ The changes in ownership by salvage operation between franchise rounds have already been mentioned.
▪ A massive salvage operation was undertaken.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The developers have planned for the salvage and reuse of the building's decorations.
▪ We found the statue in a local salvage yard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ How does the archaeologist set about locating sites, other than through documentary sources and salvage work?
▪ If the salvage is worthwhile then this should be taken up and disposed of to the highest bidder.
▪ It was argued that the fierce weather which had prevented a salvage operation also helped break up the oil.
▪ The growth of salvage work also leads us to ask: Who today actually are the searchers in archaeology?
▪ The probe focuses on vehicles that were intended to be stripped for salvage by the Arizona Department of Corrections.
▪ We walk through this user-friendly dump, exchanging salvage stories.
▪ What is going on in salvage timber sales.
▪ When the review is completed, the injunction could be lifted, and salvage logging could begin in the Southwest, too.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salvage

Salvage \Sal"vage\, a. & n. Savage. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

Salvage

Salvage \Sal"vage\ (?; 48), n. [F. salvage, OF. salver to save, F. sauver, fr. L. salvare. See Save.]

  1. The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.

    Salvage of life from a British ship, or a foreign ship in British waters, ranks before salvage of goods.
    --Encyc. Brit.

  2. (Maritime Law)

    1. The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.

    2. That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved.
      --Kent. Abbot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
salvage

1640s, "payment for saving a ship from wreck or capture," from French salvage (15c.), from Old French salver "to save" (see save (v.)). The general sense of "the saving of property from danger" is attested from 1878. Meaning "recycling of waste material" is from 1918, from the British effort in World War I.

salvage

1889, from salvage (n.). Related: Salvaged; salvaging.

Wiktionary
salvage

Etymology 1 n. 1 the rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation 2 the ship, crew or cargo so rescued 3 the compensation paid to the rescuers 4 the similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued 5 anything that has been put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted 6 damaged vb. (context transitive English) Of property, people or situations at risk, to rescue Etymology 2

n. (obsolete spelling of savage English) (16th-19th c.)

WordNet
salvage
  1. n. property or goods saved from damage or destruction

  2. the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction

  3. the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire

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

  2. collect discarded or refused material; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food" [syn: scavenge]

Wikipedia
Salvage

Salvage means 'rescue' and as such may refer to:

  • Marine salvage, the process of rescuing a ship, its cargo and sometimes the crew from peril
  • Water salvage, rescuing people from floods.
  • Salvage tug, a type of tugboat used to rescue or salvage ships which are in distress or in danger of sinking
  • Salvage data, the process of extracting data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible primary storage media
  • Salvage archaeology, an archaeological survey and excavation carried out in areas threatened by construction or development
  • Salvage ethnography, the practice of salvaging a record of what was left of a culture before it disappeared
  • Salvage therapy, medical treatment for those patients not responding adequately to First line treatment
Salvage (Angel)

"Salvage" is episode 13 of season 4 in the television show Angel, originally broadcast on the WB television network. After discovering Lilah’s dead body, a grieving Wesley breaks rogue slayer Faith out of prison so she can help track down Angelus. Meanwhile, Lorne performs a sanctuary spell to keep Angelus out of the hotel while Cordelia—secretly revealed to be the big evil controlling the Beast—confides in Connor that she is pregnant.

Salvage (short story)

"Salvage" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection The Folk of the Fringe. Card originally published this story in the February 1986 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. It was also reprinted in the anthology Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse.

Salvage (2006 film)

Salvage is a 2006 horror film by the Crook Brothers. It was an official selection of the 2006 Sundance Festival. According to the directors' commentary, the film was shot for around $25,000. It stars Lauren Currie Lewis as Claire Parker, Cody Darbe as her boyfriend Jimmy, and Chris Ferry as the killer, Duke Desmond.

Salvage (Transformers)

Salvage is the name of two fictional characters from the Transformers series. The first Salvage was introduced in the 2007 Transformers toy line, then revamped for the Power Core Combiners line in 2011.

Salvage (The X-Files)

"Salvage" is the ninth episode of the eighth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on . The episode was written by Jeffrey Bell and directed by Rod Hardy. "Salvage" is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. The episode received a Nielsen rating of 7.1 and was viewed by 11.7 million viewers. Overall, the episode received largely negative reviews from critics.

The series centers on FBI special agents Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) and her new partner John Doggett ( Robert Patrick)—following the alien abduction of her former partner, Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny)—who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Doggett and Scully encounter a dead man who is still living—only somewhat changed. What they discover is a man made of metal, enacting vengeance on those he believes created him.

"Salvage" was loosely based on Tetsuo: The Iron Man, a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto. Written by Jeffrey Bell before Robert Patrick was cast as agent Doggett, the film coincidentally echoes the plot of the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which Patrick starred in. Indeed, the episode contains an explicit reference to Patrick's role, written in homage. The episode contained several elaborate special effects sequences, most notably in the teaser, wherein a man stops a car with his body.

Salvage (1921 film)

Salvage is a lost 1921 American silent film directed by Henry King and starring Pauline Frederick. It was produced and distributed by the Robertson-Cole Company.

Salvage (2009 film)

Salvage is a 2009 British horror film directed by Lawrence Gough, produced by Julie Lau and written by Colin O'Donnell and Alan Patterson. The film stars Neve McIntosh, Shaun Dooley and Linzey Cocker as residents in a suburban street who find themselves isolated from the outside world following an emergency. The film was one of three produced in Liverpool to celebrate the city's status as EU City of Culture in 2008, and was filmed on the set of former soap opera Brookside. It was produced on a minimal budget, and was the last time the Brookside set was used for filming purposes before it was sold to a private developer. Neve McIntosh won two Best Actress awards for her role in the film.

Usage examples of "salvage".

Lion had salvaged bolts from the ballista and these he handed to his fellows.

It was even Gibbs who had arranged to have enough atomic waste aboard so that the salvage crews, sent by the Navy to recover what they thought were pieces of the Barracuda, would get the appropriate readouts.

Initially, Brewster figured, wire could be salvaged from the remains of the time machine, but eventually, he could show Mick how to draw it out of copper or gold, heating it and pulling it on a crank.

Wells, frantic, desperate, had heard that Roland Britten, although young, had done other salvage jobs.

There was a chance they might salvage something of the case but not if Polling had a tantrum.

Other cities, indeed, contain more works of carriageable art, but none contain so much of the glorious local art, and of the springs and sources of art, which can by no means be made subjects of package or porterage, nor, I grieve to say, of salvage.

The natural order is only temporarily salvaged when Hal conquers France in deference to his forefathers, thereby acquiring a new world of vegetative and procreative fertility.

The young Snowdons and the young Penworthys loitered and teased to play Mothers and Husbands and House with the real baby-the youngest Penworthy had grown too big to heft and lug and shut in a salvaged Produit de Bordeaux box-until Lily sent them off to the barn to fetch the old badminton set.

Egavine and Quist standing near a rusty bench in the compartment, of Graylock half into a salvage suit, Dasinger on the floor.

Under the current laws ofspace salvage, all of thesefacts constitute sufficient reason to consider and treat the offending vessel not merely as salvable but as an actual and continuing hazard.

The boat-builders tried to salvage their sennit, but it was in such a hopeless snarl that they could only burn it.

If those salvage operations went too far, Trame would have to take a hand.

But the fact that he did, and the fact that Trilby was, as far as she knew, the only sentient being on a world that most of civilized space wanted nothing to do with, gave her the unalienable salvage rights.

They had been put together with salvaged beams and boards mixed with new, uncured planks that disliked their neighbors.

A just sentiment of gratitude would seem to require him--if he has not already done it--to enshrine, with tributary honor, close beside the ashes of the unhappy queen of Holland, those of Madame Salvage, the most unwearied and inalienable of all her friends.