different between save vs sare

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)

1. (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
   1. To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
   2. To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
   3. To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
   4. (theology) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.

   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.

   2. (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’.
   3. (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.

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

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

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

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)

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

   The goaltender made a great 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.

Translations

Preposition

save

1. Except; with the exception of.

Synonyms

• barring, except for, save for; see also Thesaurus:except

Translations

Conjunction

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.

   • 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.

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

1. to know
2. 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)

1. to saw

Inflection

References

• “save” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

save c

1. indefinite plural of sav

Middle English

Adjective

save

1. Alternative form of sauf

Preposition

save

1. Alternative form of sauf

Conjunction

save

1. Alternative form of sauf

Adverb

save

1. Alternative form of sauf

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?save/

Verb

save

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English save.

Noun

save m (plural saves)

1. (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

1. (transitive) to know
2. (transitive) to understand
3. (transitive) to make a practice or habit of
4. (transitive) to learn

Derived terms

• luksave

Adverb

save

1. habitually

Noun

save

1. knowledge

English

Alternative forms

• sear

Adjective

sare (comparative sarer, superlative sarest)

1. (Britain, archaic) dry, withered

   Burn ash-wood green, 'tis a fire for a queen;

   Burn ash-wood sare, 'twool make a man sware.

2. (dialectal, Kent, archaic) tender, rotten
3. (dialectal, Northern England, archaic) melancholy, bad, severe

Adverb

sare (comparative sarer, superlative sarest)

1. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, archaic) much, very much, greatly

Anagrams

• AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, arse, ears, eras, rase, reas, sear, sera

Aromanian

Noun

sare

1. Alternative form of sari

Basque

Noun

sare

1. net

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *sër?.

Noun

sa?e

1. bilberry

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Javanese

Verb

sare

1. Dated spelling of saré.

Noun

sare

1. Dated spelling of saré.

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sar?]

Verb

sare (Lontara spelling ???, semi-transitive assare)

1. (transitive) to give

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

sare

1. inflection of saras:
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural
2. inflection of sara:
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Portuguese

Verb

sare

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of sarar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of sarar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of sarar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of sarar

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sale, from Latin s?l, salem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh?l-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.re/
• Rhymes: -are

Noun

sare f (plural s?ruri)

1. salt

Declension

Related terms

• s?ra
• s?rat
• s?r?tur?
• s?nin?
• s?rune

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

sare (n class, plural sare)

1. uniform (distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group)
2. (sports) a draw (tie between two teams)