Save vs Dump - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between save and dump

is that save is to know while dump is to release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

As a noun dump is

a place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for ashes, refuse, etc or dump can be (uk|archaic) a thick, ill-shapen piece.

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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Anagrams

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dump

English

Etymology 1

Akin to Old Norse )

Noun

(en noun)

A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for ashes, refuse, etc.

A toxic waste dump .

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

That which is , especially in a chaotic way; a mess.

(computing) An act of , or its result.

The new XML dump is coming soon.

A storage place for supplies, especially military.

An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.

This place looks like a dump .

Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump .

An act of defecation; a defecating.

I have to take a dump .

A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural ).

March slowly on in solemn dump . -- .

Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --

I was musing in the midst of my dumps . --.

Absence of mind; revery.

(John Locke)

(mining) A pile of ore or rock.

(obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

Tune a deploring dump .

Play me some merry dump . --

(obsolete) An old kind of dance.

(Nares)

(historical, Australia) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.

* 2002 , Paul Swan, Maths Investigations , page 66,

Basically, to overcome an acute shortage of money in 1813, Governor Lachlan Macquarie bought silver dollars from Spain and then punched the centres out, thereby producing two coins - the ‘holey dollar’ (worth five shillings) and the ‘dump'’ (worth one shilling and threepence). Talk about creating money out of nothing—the original silver dollar only cost five shillings! The holey dollar and the ' dump have been adopted as the symbol for the Macquarie Bank in Australia.

Derived terms

* braindump * core dump * crashdump * minidump

Verb

(en verb)

To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.

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(computing) To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.

(informal) To end a relationship with.

To knock heavily; to stump.

(Halliwell)

(US) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.

(Bartlett)

(US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* dumping car, dump car * dumping cart, dump cart * dump on * dump and burn

Etymology 2

See dumpling.

Noun

(en noun)

(UK, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.

(UK, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

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