A Quick and Simple Dictionary

save

1. Noun.  In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
2. Noun.  (baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game with a 3 run or less lead, and his team wins while continually being ahead.
3. Noun.  (context, professional wrestling) 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.
4. Noun.  (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
5. Verb.  (transitive) To help (somebody) to survive, or keep (somebody) from harm.
6. Verb.  (transitive) To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
7. Verb.  (transitive) To store for future use.
8. Verb.  (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
10. Verb.  (transitive, computing) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
11. Verb.  (transitive, theology) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
12. Verb.  (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
13. Verb.  (transitive, and) To accumulate money or valuables.
14. Preposition.  Except; with the exception of.
15. Conjunction.  (dated) unless; except.