save

Pronunciation

• enPR: sāv, IPA ^(key): /seɪv/
• SAMPA: /seIv/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Verb

Plain form save

Third-person singular saves

Past tense saved

Past participle saved

Present participle saving

1. If you save something, you keep it; you do not give it or toss it away.

   Please save that book for me.

2. If you save someone, you keep them safe or help them survive.

   You saved my life.

3. (computer science) If you save information, you put it on a disk or into some kind of long-term memory.

   He saved the resumé on the floppy disk.

Noun

Singular save

Plural saves

1. (countable) A save is when something was saved. This term is used in sports.

   Due to a great save at the end, the game ended 0:0.

Preposition

Preposition save

1. All of $x$ save $y$ describes only that part of $x$ that is not $y$.
   • Synonyms: except and but

   The night air was still and silent save for the voice of a female dispatcher over his police radio.

   All my cats are white, save one.

   We know little of her background, save that she was born in Mississauga.