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save

From Wiktionary
save is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
Saturday - save - say

Pronunciation

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Verb

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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

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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

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Preposition
save

  1. All of save describes only that part of that is not .
    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.