Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Save \Save\, prep. or conj. [F. sauf, properly adj., safe. See
   {Safe}, a.]
   Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting;
   reserving; saving.

         Five times received I forty stripes save one. --2 Cor.
                                                  xi. 24.

   Syn: See {Except}.

Save \Save\, conj.
   Except; unless.

Save \Save\, n. [See {Sage} the herb.]
   The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Save \Save\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Saved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Saving}.] [OE. saven, sauven, salven, OF. salver, sauver, F.
   sauver, L. salvare, fr. salvus saved, safe. See {Safe}, a.]
   1. To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from
      injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from
      impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.

            God save all this fair company.       --Chaucer.

            He cried, saying, Lord, save me.      --Matt. xiv.
                                                  30.

            Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from
            utter loss.                           --Milton.

   2. (Theol.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its
      penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and
      spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.

            Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
                                                  --1 Tim. i.
                                                  15.

   3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or
      expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.

            Now save a nation, and now save a groat. --Pope.

   4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to
      prevent from doing something; to spare.

            I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done.
                                                  --Shak.

   5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate
      the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.

            Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? --Dryden.

   6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.

            Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of
            merit.                                --Swift.

   {To save appearances}, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid
      exposure of a discreditable state of things.

   Syn: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve;
        prevent.

Save \Save\, v. i.
   To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent
   waste; to be economical.

         Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material.
                                                  --Bacon.

Source : WordNet®

save
     v 1: save from ruin, destruction, or harm [syn: {salvage}, {salve},
           {relieve}]
     2: to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She
        saved the old family photographs in a drawer" [syn: {preserve}]
     3: bring into safety; "We pulled through most of the victims of
        the bomb attack" [syn: {carry through}, {pull through}, {bring
        through}]
     4: spend less; buy at a reduced price
     5: feather one's nest; have a nest egg; "He saves half his
        salary" [syn: {lay aside}, {save up}]
     6: make unnecessary an expenditure or effort; "This will save
        money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a
        lot of time" [syn: {make unnecessary}]
     7: save from sins [syn: {deliver}, {redeem}]
     8: refrain from harming [syn: {spare}]
     9: spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move will save
        money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now"
        [syn: {economize}, {economise}]
     10: retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth";
         "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a
         merger" [syn: {keep open}, {hold open}, {keep}]

save
     n : (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring;
         "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher
         got credit for a save"

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

SAVE
     
        An {assembler} for the {Burroughs 220} by Melvin Conway (see
        {Conway's Law}).  The name "SAVE" didn't stand for anything,
        it was just that you lost fewer card decks and listings
        because they all had SAVE written on them.
     
        (1995-01-16)

save
     
         To copy {data} to a more
        permanent form of storage.  The term is commonly used for when
        some kind of document editing {application program} writes the
        current document from {RAM} to a {file} on {hard disk} at the
        request of the user.  The implication is that the user might
        later {load} the file back into the editor again to view it,
        print it, or continue editing it.  Saving a document makes it
        safe from the effects of power failure.
     
        The "document" might actually be anything, e.g. a {word
        processor} document, the current state of a game, a piece of
        music, a {web site}, or a memory image of some program being
        executed (though the term "dump" would probably be more common
        here).
     
        Data can be saved to any kind of (writable) storage: hard
        disk, {floppy disk}, {CD-R}; either locally or via a
        {network}.
     
        A program might save its data without any explicit user
        request, e.g. periodically as a precaution ("auto save"), or
        if it forms part of a {pipeline} of processes which pass data
        via intermediate files.  In the latter case the term suggests
        all data is written in a single operation whereas "output"
        might be a continuous flow, in true pipeline fashion.
     
        When copying several files from one storage medium to another,
        the terms "back-up", "dump", or "archive" would be used rather
        than "save".  The term "store" is similar to "save" but
        typically applies to copying a single item of data, e.g. a
        number, from a {processor}'s {register} to {RAM}.
     
        (2002-06-07)