Save vs Savage - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between save and savage

is that save is in various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring while savage is an uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.

As verbs the difference between save and savage

is that save is to prevent harm or difficulty while savage is to attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.

As a preposition save

is except; with the exception of.

As a conjunction save

is unless; except.

As an adjective savage is

wild; not cultivated.

As a proper noun Savage is

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save

English

Noun

(en noun)

In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.

The goaltender made a great save .

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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.

Jones retired seven to earn the save .

(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.

The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save .

(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.

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)

(label) To prevent harm or difficulty.

# To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.

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# To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.

#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Thou hastquitted all to save / A world from utter loss.

# To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I'll save you / That labour, sir. All's now done.

# (label) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.

# (label) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).

#* 2012 , 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.

To put aside, to avoid.

# (label) To store for future use.

# (label) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.

#*: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)

Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?

# To write a file to disk or other storage medium.

# (label) To economize or avoid waste.

# To accumulate money or valuables.

Usage notes

In computing sense “to write a file”, also used as phrasal verb (save down) informally. Compare other computing phrasal verbs such as (print out) and (close out).

Derived terms

* save as * saved by the bell * saved game, savegame * save file, savefile * save point, savepoint * save slot * save state * save the day * to save one's life

Preposition

(English prepositions)

Except; with the exception of.

*: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.

Synonyms

* (with the exception of) except

Conjunction

(English Conjunctions)

(dated) unless; except

Derived terms

* * save as

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savage

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

wild; not cultivated

a savage wilderness

* Dryden

savage berries of the wood

barbaric; not civilized

savage manners

* 1719-

I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.

* E. D. Griffin

What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?

fierce and ferocious

savage beasts

a savage spirit

brutal, vicious or merciless

He gave the dog a savage kick.

The woman was killed in a savage manner.

(UK, slang) unpleasant or unfair

- I'll see you in detention.
- Ah, savage !

Noun

(en noun)

(pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.

* 1847 , , Tancred: or The New Crusade , page 251

'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages'.'
'They are not ' savages , Freeman.'
'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'

(figuratively) A defiant person.

Verb

(transitive)

To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.

(figuratively) To criticise vehemently.

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(of an animal) To attack with the teeth.

(obsolete) To make savage.

* South

Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.