Husband vs Save - What's the difference?
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(lb) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
(lb) A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
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*:a withered tree, through husbands toyle, / Is often seene full freshly to have florisht
*(rfdate) (George Hakewill) (1578-1649)
*:the painful husband , ploughing up his ground
*(rfdate) (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestick and field accommodations.
(lb) A prudent or frugal manager.
*(rfdate) (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband , to improve the short remnant left me.
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
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*(rfdate) (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)
*:The husband and wife are one person in law.
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*:A great bargain also had beenthe arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
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:(Dryden)
(lb) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
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A polled tree; a pollard.
To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
To conserve.
* 1719, (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
(obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
* (rfdate) (Evelyn)
To provide with a husband.
To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
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(baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game with a 3 run or less lead, and his team wins while continually being ahead.
(professional wrestling, slang) 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.
(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
(label) To prevent harm or difficulty.
# To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
#*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
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#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
# To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
# (label) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
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To put aside, to avoid.
# (label) To store for future use.
# (label) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
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#*: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’.
# (label) To obviate or make unnecessary.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
# (label) To economize or avoid waste.
# To accumulate money or valuables.
Except; with the exception of.
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*: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.
As verbs the difference between husband and save
is that husband is to manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise while save is to know.As a noun husband
is (lb) the master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.husband
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* wifeHypernyms
* partner (may or may not be married ) * spouse (may also apply to wife )Derived terms
* ex-husband * house husband * hubby * husbandage * husbandly * husbandman * husbandry * husbandless * ship's husbandVerb
(en verb)- For my means, I'll husband them so well, / They shall go far. — Shakespeare.
- ...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise.
- Land so trim and rarely husbanded .
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Derived terms
* husbandable * husbandrysave
English
Noun
(en noun)- The goaltender made a great save .
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- Jones retired seven to earn the save .
- The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save .
- 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.
Verb
(sav)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
- Thou hastquitted all to save / A world from utter loss.
- I'll save you / That labour, sir. All's now done.
Chelsea 6-0 Wolves
- 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.
- Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?