Save vs Reclaim - What's the difference?

save | reclaim |

As verbs the difference between save and reclaim

is that save is to know while reclaim is (senseid)to return land to a suitable condition for use.

As a noun reclaim is

(obsolete|falconry) the calling back of a hawk.

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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reclaim

English

Verb

(en verb)

(senseid)To return land to a suitable condition for use.

To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.

To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.

* Milton

They, hardened more by what might most reclaim , / Grieving to see his glory took envy.

* Rogers

It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.

* Sir E. Hoby

Your error, in time reclaimed , will be venial.

To claim something back; to repossess.

To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

* Dryden

an eagle well reclaimed

To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

* Dryden

The headstrong horses hurried Octavius along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.

To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

* Waterland

Scripture reclaims', and the whole Catholic church ' reclaims , and Christian ears would not hear it.

* Bain

At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.

(Fuller)

(obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.

(Spenser)

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.

(obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:

The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame [...].

An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

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