The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Save \Save\, n. [See Sage the herb.]
   The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Save \Save\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saved; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Saving.] [OE. saven, sauven, salven, OF. salver, sauver, F.
   sauver, L. salvare, fr. salvus saved, safe. See Safe, a.]
   1. To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from
      injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from
      impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
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            God save all this fair company.       --Chaucer.
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            He cried, saying, Lord, save me.      --Matt. xiv.
                                                  30.
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            Thou hast . . . quitted all to save
            A world from utter loss.              --Milton.
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   2. (Theol.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its
      penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and
      spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
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            Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
                                                  --1 Tim. i.
                                                  15.
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   3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or
      expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
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            Now save a nation, and now save a groat. --Pope.
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   4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to
      prevent from doing something; to spare.
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            I'll save you
            That labor, sir. All's now done.      --Shak.
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   5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate
      the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
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            Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? --Dryden.
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   6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
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            Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of
            merit.                                --Swift.
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   To save appearances, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid
      exposure of a discreditable state of things.
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   Syn: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve;
        prevent.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Save \Save\, v. i.
   To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent
   waste; to be economical.
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         Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material.
                                                  --Bacon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Save \Save\, prep. or conj. [F. sauf, properly adj., safe. See
   Safe, a.]
   Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting;
   reserving; saving.
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         Five times received I forty stripes save one. --2 Cor.
                                                  xi. 24.
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   Syn: See Except.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Save \Save\, conj.
   Except; unless.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

save
    n 1: (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring;
         "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got
         credit for a save"
    v 1: save from ruin, destruction, or harm [syn: salvage,
         salve, relieve, save]
    2: to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She
       saved the old family photographs in a drawer" [syn: save,
       preserve]
    3: bring into safety; "We pulled through most of the victims of
       the bomb attack" [syn: save, carry through, pull
       through, bring through]
    4: spend less; buy at a reduced price
    5: accumulate money for future use; "He saves half his salary"
       [syn: save, lay aside, save up]
    6: make unnecessary an expenditure or effort; "This will save
       money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a
       lot of time" [syn: save, make unnecessary]
    7: save from sins [syn: deliver, redeem, save]
    8: refrain from harming [syn: spare, save]
    9: spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move will save
       money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now" [syn:
       save, economize, economise]
    10: retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth";
        "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a
        merger" [syn: keep open, hold open, keep, save]
    11: record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written
        on the hard disk" [syn: write, save]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

221 Moby Thesaurus words for "save":
   abet, abstain, accumulate, aid, amass, anticipate, aside from,
   assist, avail, avert, backlog, bail out, bar, barring, bear a hand,
   befriend, benefit, beside, besides, bottle up, but, cache, collect,
   comfort, conserve, convert, copyright, cork up, cumulate, debar,
   defend, deflect, deliver, deposit, deter, discounting, discourage,
   dishearten, dispense with, do good, do without, doctor, ease,
   economize, enforce economies, estop, ex, except, except for,
   except that, excepting, exception taken of, exclude, excluding,
   exclusive of, extract, extricate, favor, fend, fend off, forbear,
   forbid, foreclose, forestall, forgo, free, from, garner, garner up,
   gather into barns, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift,
   give help, give salvation, guard, heap up, help, hide, hoard,
   hoard up, hold, hold back, hold in, hold off, however, husband,
   if not, inhibit, keep, keep alive, keep back, keep by one,
   keep from, keep in, keep in hand, keep in reserve, keep in store,
   keep intact, keep inviolate, keep off, keep on hand, keep safe,
   keep up, keep within compass, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in,
   lay up, leaving out, lend a hand, lend one aid, less, let alone,
   liberate, lock in, maintain, make ends meet, make sure, manage,
   minus, not counting, not destroy, not endanger, not expend,
   not touch, not use, not use up, not waste, obviate, off, omitting,
   outside of, patent, pile up, play safe, preclude, precluding,
   preserve, prevent, proffer aid, prohibit, protect, put apart,
   put aside, put away, put by, put something aside, put up, rally,
   ransom, reclaim, recover, redeem, reform, refrain, regenerate,
   register, release, relieve, remedy, render assistance, repel,
   repress, rescue, reserve, restore, resuscitate, retain, retrieve,
   revive, rule out, safeguard, salt away, salvage, save and except,
   save up, saving, scrape, scrape and save, scrimp, secrete, secure,
   set apart, set aside, set by, set free, set up, shelter, shield,
   skimp, spare, squirrel, squirrel away, stave off, stock up,
   stockpile, store up, stow, succor, support, suppress, sustain,
   take in tow, take precautions, than, treasure, treasure up,
   turn aside, unchain, unless, unless that, unshackle, uphold, waive,
   ward off, were it not, withhold, without, yet



The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

SAVE

    An assembler for the Burroughs 220 written
   by Melvin Conway.  The name "SAVE" didn't stand for
   anything; it was just that you lost fewer card decks and
   listings because they all had SAVE written on them.

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-01-16)


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

save

    To copy data to a more
   permanent form of storage.  The term is commonly used for when
   some kind of document editing application program writes the
   current document from RAM to a file on hard disk at the
   request of the user.  The implication is that the user might
   later load the file back into the editor again to view it,
   print it, or continue editing it.  Saving a document makes it
   safe from the effects of power failure.

   The "document" might actually be anything, e.g. a word
   processor document, the current state of a game, a piece of
   music, a website, or a memory image of some program being
   executed (though the term "dump" would probably be more common
   here).

   Data can be saved to any kind of (writable) storage: hard
   disk, floppy disk, CD-R; either locally or via a
   network.

   A program might save its data without any explicit user
   request, e.g. periodically as a precaution ("auto save"), or
   if it forms part of a pipeline of processes which pass data
   via intermediate files.  In the latter case the term suggests
   all data is written in a single operation whereas "output"
   might be a continuous flow, in true pipeline fashion.

   When copying several files from one storage medium to another,
   the terms "backup", "dump", or "archive" would be used rather
   than "save".  The term "store" is similar to "save" but
   typically applies to copying a single item of data, e.g. a
   number, from a processor's register to RAM.

   A "save" operation saves the document in its native format,
   e.g. a proprietary word processor format, whereas "save as"
   (or "export") saves the same data in a different format,
   e.g. a plain text file.

   (2002-06-07)