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saving
English
Etymology
From save +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?se?v.??/
- Rhymes: -e?v??
Noun
saving (countable and uncountable, plural savings)
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (law, obsolete) Exception; reservation.
Derived terms
- cost saving
- life savings
Translations
Verb
saving
- present participle of save
Adjective
saving (comparative more saving, superlative most saving)
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive. [from 14th c.]
- Preserving; rescuing.
- He is the saving strength of his anointed.
- Thrifty; frugal. [from 15th c.]
- a saving cook
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 14:
- Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- a saving bargain
- The ship has made a saving voyage.
- Making reservation or exception.
- a saving clause
- (in compound adjectives) Relating to making a saving.
Derived terms
- cost-saving
- space-saving
- timesaving
- saving grace
Preposition
saving
- With the exception of; except; save.
- And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
- Without disrespect to.
- a. 1796, Robert Burns, The Carle of Kellyburn Braes
- Saving your presence.
- a. 1796, Robert Burns, The Carle of Kellyburn Braes
Anagrams
- Givans, vignas
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sheltering
English
Verb
sheltering
- present participle of shelter
Noun
sheltering (plural shelterings)
- A shelter; a structure beneath which one shelters.
- 1892, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales (volume 2, page 668)
- The result was most satisfactory, as I succeeded, with Mr. Morgan's kind assistance, in securing a considerable number of larvae living beneath shelterings formed of coccid remains, which I felt sure must be the early stage of a Thalpochares.
- 1892, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales (volume 2, page 668)
Anagrams
- lighteners, threelings
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