Saving vs Safety - What's the difference?
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A reduction in cost or expenditure.
(countable, usually plural) Something (usually money) that is saved.
(uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
(obsolete) exception; reservation
* L'Estrange
(theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
Preserving; rescuing.
* Bible, Psalms xxviii. 8
Thrifty; frugal.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 14:
Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
Making reservation or exception.
With the exception of; except; save.
* Bible, Revelations ii. 17
Without disrespect to.
* Shakespeare
* Burns
The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
(mechanics) A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.
(American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or steps out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points for the opposite team.
(American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
Preservation from escape; close custody.
* Shakespeare
Saving is a related term of safety.
As nouns the difference between saving and safety
is that saving is a reduction in cost or expenditure while safety is the condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.As a verb saving
is .As an adjective saving
is (theology) that saves someone from damnation; redemptive.As a preposition saving
is with the exception of; except; save.saving
English
Noun
- The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.
- I invested all my savings in gold.
- Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- He is the saving strength of his anointed.
- a saving cook
- Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.
- a saving bargain
- The ship has made a saving voyage.
- a saving clause
Preposition
(English prepositions)- And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
- Saving your reverence.
- Saving your presence.
Derived terms
* life savings * saving gracesafety
English
Noun
(wikipedia safety)- If you push it to the limit, safety is not guaranteed.
- Be sure that the safety is set before proceeding.
- ''He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety .
- The free safety made a game-saving tackle on the runner who had broken past the linebackers.
- Imprison him, / Deliver him to safety ; and return.