save

Meanings

Verb

• To prevent harm or difficulty.
• To put aside, to avoid.

Noun

• In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
• When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead.
• 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 act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
• A saving throw.
• An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.

Origin

• From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvo.