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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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- what saved britain in the battle of britain
- what saves on a sim card
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thrift
English
Etymology
From Middle English thrift, thryfte, þrift, from Old Norse þrift (“thriving condition, prosperity”). Equivalent to thrive +? -t.
Pronunciation
- enPR: thr?ft, IPA(key): /???ft/
- Rhymes: -?ft
Wikispecies
Noun
thrift (countable and uncountable, plural thrifts)
- (uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
- His thrift can be seen in how little the trashman takes from his house.
- The rest, […] willing to fall to thrift , as I have seene many souldiers after the service to prove very good husbands
- 1892, Ambrose Bierce, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - Holy Terror
- […] it would appear that before taking this precaution Mr. Bree must have had the thrift to remove a modest competency of the gold […]
- (countable, US) A savings bank.
- Usually, home mortgages are obtained from thrifts.
- (countable) Any of various plants of the genus Armeria, particularly Armeria maritima.
- (obsolete) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity; profit.
- 1380-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:
- Medleth na-more with that art, I mene, / For, if ye doon, your thrift is goon ful clene.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I scene i[1]:
- Bassanio: […] And many Jasons come in quest of her. / O my Antonio, had I but the means / To hold a rival place with one of them, / I have a mind presages me such thrift, / That I should questionless be fortunate!
- c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III scene ii[2]:
- Hamlet: No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning.
- 1380-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:
- (obsolete) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
Synonyms
- (characteristic of using a minimum of something): frugality
Antonyms
- spendthrift
Derived terms
- thrifty
- thrift shop
- thrift store
Related terms
Translations
Verb
thrift (third-person singular simple present thrifts, present participle thrifting, simple past and past participle thrifted)
- (transitive) To obtain from a thrift shop.
References
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- what thrift stores are open
- what thrift stores are open today
- what thrift stores are open near me
- what thrift stores buy clothes
- what thrift stores are open on sunday
- what thrift stores are accepting donations
- what thrift stores are near me
- what thrift stores are open right now
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