save
English
/seɪv/
noun
Definitions
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead.
- (professional wrestling) 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.
- (RPG) A saving throw.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English saven derived from Old French sauver derived from Latin salvo, salvāre.
Origin
Latin
salvo, salvāre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- autosave English
- dissave English
- dissaver English
- facesaving English
- file English
- foresave English
- game English
- laborsaving English
- lifesaver English
- lifesaving English
- multisaver English
- nonsave English
- outsave English
- oversave English
- oversaver English
- point English
- quick English
- quicksave English
- resave English
- savable English
- savableness English
- savefile English
- savegame English
- savement English
- savepoint English
- saver English
- savescum English
- savescummer English
- savest English
- savestate English
- saveth English
- saveworthy English
- saving English
- savingly English
- savingness English
- screensaver English
- scum English
- space-saving English
- state English
- supersaver English
- timesaver English
- undersave English
- undersaver English
- unsavable English
- unsave English
- withsave English
- salvo, salvare Latin
- salvo, salvāre Latin
- salvo, salvō, salvāre Latin
- salvāre Latin
- salvō Latin
- salvō, salvāre Latin
- save Portuguese
- sauven, saven Middle English
- savement Middle English
- saven Middle English
- sauver Old French
- seiva Icelandic
- sauver Norman
- saûver Norman
- saulver Middle French
- salvar Venetian
- game
- scum
- file
- point
- quick
- state
- saver
- unsave
- savest
- saveth
- saving
- resave
- dissave
- savable
- outsave
- nonsave
- savement
- savefile
- oversave
- dissaver
- savingly
- autosave
- savegame
- savescum
- withsave
- foresave
- savepoint
- unsavable
- oversaver
- undersave
- lifesaver
- timesaver
- savestate
- quicksave
- lifesaving
- undersaver
- facesaving
- multisaver
- supersaver
- savingness
- saveworthy
- laborsaving
- savableness
- screensaver
- savescummer
- space-saving