<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.</li><li>Synonyms: salvage</li><li>to keep safe, intact, or unhurt; safeguard; preserve: God save the king.</li><li>to keep from being lost to an opponent: A goal in the final minute saved the game.</li><li>to avoid the spending, consumption, or waste of: to save fuel.</li><li>to keep, as for reuse: to save leftovers for tomorrow's dinner.</li><li>to set aside, reserve, or lay by: to save money.</li><li>Synonyms: husband, store up</li><li>to treat carefully in order to reduce wear, fatigue, etc.: to save one's eyes by reading under proper light.</li><li>to prevent the occurrence, use, or necessity of; obviate: to come early in order to save waiting.</li><li>Theology: to deliver from the power and consequences of sin.</li><li>Computers: to copy (a file or other data) to a storage medium, as from RAM to a disk.</li><li>Sports: to stop (a ball or puck) from entering one's goal.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of saving, especially in sports: The goalie guarded the net well and made a crucial save.</li><li>Baseball: a statistical credit given a relief pitcher for preserving a team's victory by holding its lead in a game.</li><li>Computers: an act of copying a file or other data to a storage medium: The server is scheduled to execute a systemwide save at the end of the work day.</li><li>one version of a saved file: We can recover the lost data if we restore it from a previous save.</li></ul>