different between save vs effect
save
English
Etymology
From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salv?re (“to save”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?v, IPA(key): /se?v/
- Rhymes: -e?v
Verb
save (third-person singular simple present saves, present participle saving, simple past and past participle saved)
- (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (theology) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (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.
- 2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- To put aside, to avoid.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- 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’.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
Usage notes
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.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
save (plural saves)
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- The goaltender made a great save.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (role-playing games) A saving throw.
Translations
Preposition
save
- Except; with the exception of.
Synonyms
- barring, except for, save for; see also Thesaurus:except
Translations
Conjunction
save
- (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.
- 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.
- 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:
Derived terms
- save vs.
- save as
Anagrams
- AEVs, Esav, VASE, VESA, Veas, aves, vaes, vase
Bislama
Etymology
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.
Verb
save
- to know
- to be able to
- mi no save kam : I can't come
- mi save toktok Francis : I can speak French
References
- Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, ?ISBN
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa?v?/, [?sæ???], [?sæ??]
- Rhymes: -a?v?
Etymology 1
From Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sag?n?, cognate with Swedish såga, English saw, German sägen, Dutch zagen. Derived from the noun *sag? (Danish sav).
Verb
save (past tense savede, past participle savet)
- to saw
Inflection
References
- “save” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
save c
- indefinite plural of sav
Middle English
Adjective
save
- Alternative form of sauf
Preposition
save
- Alternative form of sauf
Conjunction
save
- Alternative form of sauf
Adverb
save
- Alternative form of sauf
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?save/
Verb
save
- inflection of savvit:
- present indicative connegative
- second-person singular imperative
- imperative connegative
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English save.
Noun
save m (plural saves)
- (informal, gaming) save file (of a video game or computer game)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:save.
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From Portuguese sabe (“know”). Compare Bislama save.
Verb
save
- (transitive) to know
- (transitive) to understand
- (transitive) to make a practice or habit of
- (transitive) to learn
Derived terms
- luksave
Adverb
save
- habitually
Noun
save
- knowledge
save From the web:
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effect
English
Etymology
For noun: from Middle English effect, from Old French effect (modern French effet), from Latin effectus (“an effect, tendency, purpose”), from effici? (“accomplish, complete, effect”); see effect as a verb. Replaced Old English fremming, fremednes from fremman.
For verb: from Middle English effecten, partly from Latin effectus, perfect passive participle of effici? (“accomplish, complete, do, effect”), from ex (“out”) + faci? (“do, make”) (see fact and compare affect, infect) and partly from the noun effect.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??f?kt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??f?kt/
- (Malaysia, Singapore) IPA(key): /i?f?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Hyphenation: ef?fect
Noun
effect (countable and uncountable, plural effects)
- The result or outcome of a cause.
- Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
- October 1832, unknown author, The Tears of Parents (in The Christian Observer Volume 32
- patchwork […] introduced for oratorical effect
- 1832, Washington Irving, Tales of the Alhambra
- The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
- October 1832, unknown author, The Tears of Parents (in The Christian Observer Volume 32
- Execution; performance; realization; operation.
- (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
- (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
- (cinematography) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
- (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
- (physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
- (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
- Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
- They spake to her to that effect.
- (obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
- 1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill
- no other in effect than what it seems
- 1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill
- (obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.
Usage notes
Do not confuse with affect.
Adjectives often applied to "effect":
- biological, chemical, cultural, economic, legal, mental, moral, nutritional, personal, physical, physiological, political and social
- actual, bad, beneficial, catastrophic, deleterious, disastrous, devastating, fatal, good, harmful, important, intended, likely, natural, negative, positive, potential, primary, real, secondary, significant, special, strong, undesirable and weak
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- after-effect
Related terms
- in effect
- take effect
- personal effects
Translations
References
Verb
effect (third-person singular simple present effects, present participle effecting, simple past and past participle effected)
- (transitive) To make or bring about; to implement.
- Misspelling of affect.
Usage notes
Effect is often confused with affect. The latter suggests influence over existing ideas, emotions and entities; the former indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities:
- “New governing coalitions have effected major changes” indicates that major changes were made as a result of new governing coalitions.
- “New governing coalitions have affected major changes” indicates that before new governing coalitions, major changes were in place, and that the new governing coalitions had some influence over those existing changes.
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- effect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- effect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch effect, from Latin effectus. The sense ‘(equitable) security’ borrowed from German Effekt or French effet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??f?kt/
- Hyphenation: ef?fect
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
effect n (plural effecten, diminutive effectje n)
- effect
- (finance, usually in the plural) security
- Hypernym: waardepapier
- (ball games) spin (rotation of a ball)
- (obsolete) personal effect, belonging
Compounds
- broeikaseffect
- domino-effect
- effectbal
- effectenbeurs
- sneeuwbaleffect
Derived terms
- effectief
Descendants
- Afrikaans: effek
- ? Indonesian: efek
References
Middle French
Alternative forms
- effaict
Etymology
From Old French effect
Noun
effect m (plural effects)
- effect
Descendants
- French: effet
Old French
Etymology
From Latin effectus
Noun
effect m (oblique plural effecz or effectz, nominative singular effecz or effectz, nominative plural effect)
- effect
- (law) judgment; decree
- punir les contrevenantz solonc l’effect des estatut
- Punish the offender according to the decree of the statute
- punir les contrevenantz solonc l’effect des estatut
Descendants
- ? English: effect
- French: effet
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