Verb

(sav)

(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)

, title= 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.}}

# 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.

Verb

(lb) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.

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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}

To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you

(lb) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

(lb) To establish a basis for (something).

(lb) To form by combining materials or parts.

(lb) To develop in magnitude or extent.