Saving vs Rescue - What's the difference?
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A reduction in cost or expenditure.
(countable, usually plural) Something (usually money) that is saved.
(uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
(obsolete) exception; reservation
* L'Estrange
(theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
Preserving; rescuing.
* Bible, Psalms xxviii. 8
Thrifty; frugal.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 14:
Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
Making reservation or exception.
With the exception of; except; save.
* Bible, Revelations ii. 17
Without disrespect to.
* Shakespeare
* Burns
To save from any violence, danger or evil.
To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
To recover forcibly
To deliver by arms, notably from a siege
(figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
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An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
A liberation, freeing.
The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril
A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded
A rescuee.
As a noun saving
is a reduction in cost or expenditure.As a verb saving
is .As an adjective saving
is (theology) that saves someone from damnation; redemptive.As a preposition saving
is with the exception of; except; save.As a proper noun rescue is
a city in california (zip code 95672).saving
English
Noun
- The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.
- I invested all my savings in gold.
- Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- He is the saving strength of his anointed.
- a saving cook
- Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.
- a saving bargain
- The ship has made a saving voyage.
- a saving clause
Preposition
(English prepositions)- And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
- Saving your reverence.
- Saving your presence.
Derived terms
* life savings * saving gracerescue
English
Verb
(rescu) (transitive)- ''The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche
- to rescue a prisoner from the enemy
- Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.
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Synonyms
* free, deliver, pull out of the fire, save the day * (to free from confinement) liberate, release * (to free from restraint) release, unshackle, untie * (to recover forcibly) recapture, retake * (to deliver by arms) liberate * (to rescue from evil or sin) redeem, saveAntonyms
* (all senses) abandon, ignore * endanger, imperil * (to free from confinement) enslave, incarcerate * (to free from restraint) bind, constrict, hamper, inhibit, obstruct, preclude * (to recover forcibly) kidnap * (to deliver by arms) arrest, capture * (to rescue from evil or sin) corrupt, depraveDerived terms
* rescuee * rescuerNoun
(en noun)- ''The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders
- The dog proved a rescue with some behavior issues.