Savename

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  A river in southeastern Africa that flows about 400 km (250 mi) from south of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.

  • “I am from the Save River. But I married. To a man from afar, Phiri, from Malawi.”
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  A river in southern France that flows about 143 km (89 mi) from the Pyrenees to the Garonne at Grenade.

saveverb/seɪv/

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  To prevent harm or difficulty.

  • She was saved from drowning by a passer-by.
  • We were able to save a few of our possessions from the house fire.
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  To prevent harm or difficulty.

  • Thou hast[…]quitted all to save / A world from utter loss.
  • IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE You often hear a new policy or procedure justified by the specious idea that "If it saves the life of just one (insert here 'child' or 'American soldier'), it will be worth it." Well, maybe not. Maybe a closer look would show that the cost in time, money or inconvenience would be much too high to justify merely saving one life. What's wrong with looking at it like that? Governments and corporations make those calculations all the time.
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  To prevent harm or difficulty.

  • I'll save you / That labour, sir. All's now done.
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  ChristianitylifestylereligionTo prevent harm or difficulty.

  • Jesus Christ came to save sinners.
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  hobbieslifestylesportsTo prevent harm or difficulty.

  • 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.
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  ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo prevent harm or difficulty.

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  To put aside; to avoid.

  • Let's save the packaging in case we need to send the product back.
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  To put aside; to avoid.

  • Save electricity by turning off the lights when you leave the room.
  • 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’.

savenoun/seɪv/

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  An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

  • As 1942 began, work was now continuing apace on getting the ships back afloat and into dock. The first good news in this regard was West Virginia. Thanks to a combination of Tennessees unintentional save' and the crew's own efforts, she'd settled upright, and so divers estimated that, if the various holes could be patched and pumping done in a sensible order from the top down, she should just rise back up to the surface on an even keel, which, in turn, meant that a lot of the initial work on removing her main battery could now be stopped.
  • It is no coincidence that two of the four 'saves' on our tour connect with the early days of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR), where restoration has also been helped by recent research that explains further why these saves are so significant.
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  An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

  • The goaltender made a great save.
  • Wolves defender Ronald Zubar was slightly closer with his shot on the turn as he forced Pepe Reina, on his 200th Premier League appearance, into a low save.
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  ball-gamesbaseballgamesAn instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

  • Jones retired seven to earn the save.
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  slanggovernmenthobbieslifestyleAn instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

  • The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save.
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  informalAn instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

  • Nice save.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsThe 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.
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  A saving throw.

saveprep/seɪv/

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  Except; with the exception of.

  • Under the terms of the Interdict no church services and offices were to be permitted save the baptism of infants and the confession of the dying.

saveconj/seɪv/

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  Unless; except.

  • 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.