Save vs Bail - What's the difference?

save | bail |

In lang=en terms the difference between save and bail

is that save is unless; except while bail is to confine.

As a preposition save

is except; with the exception of.

As a conjunction save

is unless; except.

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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bail

English

(wikipedia bail)

Etymology 1

From the (etyl) verb .

Noun

(en noun)

Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

(legal, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.

(legal, UK) The person providing such payment.

A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.

* Captain Cook

The bail of a canoe made of a human skull.

(obsolete) Custody; keeping.

* Spenser

Silly Faunus now within their bail .

Derived terms

* jump bail * out on bail

Verb

(en verb)

To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.

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(legal) To release a person under such guarantee.

(legal) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.

to bail''' cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to '''bail goods to a carrier

(nautical) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.

to bail water out of a boat

* Capt. J. Smith

buckets to bail out the water

(nautical) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.

to bail a boat

* R. H. Dana, Jr.

By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out.

To set free; to deliver; to release.

* Spenser

Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail .

Derived terms

* bailment * bailor * bailee * bail out

Etymology 2

From a shortening of bail out, which from above.

Verb

(en verb)

(slang) To exit quickly.

With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail .

* 2010 September, Jeannette Cooperman, "Bringing It Home", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 62:

The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools have tried it and bailed .

(informal) To fail to meet a commitment.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) beyl, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket) .

* 2010 , John M. Findley, Just Lucky , page 78,

I reached across beneath the cow to attach a metal bail' to each end of the strap so that the '''bail''' hung about 5 inches below the cow's belly.While stroking and talking to the cow, I reached under and suspended the machine on the ' bail beneath the cow, with its four suction cups dangling to one side.

A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop) .

* 1953 , British Institute of Management, Centre for Farm Management, Farm Management Association, Farm Managememt , 1960, John Wiley, page 160,

More recently, the fixed bail , sometimes called the ‘milking parlour’, with either covered or open yards, has had a certain vogue and some very enthusiastic claims have been made for this method of housing.

* 2011 , Edith H. Whetham, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales , Volume 8: Volumes 1914-1939, page 191,

Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails , instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods.

A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.

(chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.

* 2011 , Bob Ellis, Hush Now, Don't Cry , page 153,

But until he had poured enough milk into the vat above the separator, I drove unmilked cows into the bail' where he had previously milked and released one. He moved from one '''bail''' to the other to milk the next one I had readied. I drove each cow into the empty ' bail , chained her in, roped the outer hind leg then washed and massaged the udder and teats.

A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.

(cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.

(furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail, as the wire bail handle shown in the drawing.

Verb

(en verb)

To secure the head of a cow during milking.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) baillier.

Verb

(en verb)

(rare) To confine.

(Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.

(Australia, New Zealand) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with (up).)

* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 128:

The transition over the rooftop would have been quicker if Sellers had not been bailed up by a particularly hostile spiritual presence speaking Swedish.

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