Save vs Security - What's the difference?
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In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
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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.
(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.
(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
(label) To prevent harm or difficulty.
# To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
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, title= # To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
# To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
# (label) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
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To put aside, to avoid.
# (label) To store for future use.
# (label) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
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#*: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.
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# To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
# (label) To economize or avoid waste.
# To accumulate money or valuables.
Except; with the exception of.
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*: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.
(uncountable) The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.
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(countable) Something that secures.
An organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations as well as maintaining order.
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, title= (legal) Something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation or law.
(legal) Freedom from apprehension.
(finance) Proof of ownership of stocks, bonds or other investment instruments.
(finance) Property etc. temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan.
A guarantee.
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(obsolete) Carelessness; negligence.
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As a verb save
is to know.As a noun security is
(uncountable) the condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.save
English
Noun
(en noun)- The goaltender made a great save .
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- Jones retired seven to earn the save .
- The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save .
- 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)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.}}
- Thou hastquitted all to save / A world from utter loss.
- I'll save you / That labour, sir. All's now done.
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.
- Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?
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 lifePreposition
(English prepositions)Synonyms
* (with the exception of) exceptDerived terms
* * save asStatistics
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* 1000 English basic words ----security
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(wikipedia security)Alternative forms
* secuerity (mostly obsolete)Noun
- Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard, / From firm security .
- Some alleged that we should have no security for our trade.
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The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
- Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.
- He means, my lord, that we are too remiss, / Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security , / Grows strong and great in substance and in power.
