| 单词 | save |
| 释义 | save (once / 25 pages) 1vn 2v 3v To save is to keep safe. So, you might save money for college, save a kitten from drowning, or save a dropped football. You can save a choking person by giving them the Heimlich maneuver, or save a stray puppy from running into the street. There are other ways to save things, too, like when you keep them for later: "You can eat your brownie, but I'll save mine until after dinner." Or when you spend less money: "I'll save by buying this at the used book store." The Latin root is salvus, "safe." WORD FAMILYsave: saved, saver, saves, saving, savior+/saved: unsaved/saver: savers/saving: savingly, savings/savior: saviors USAGE EXAMPLESEveryone on that group, save Gretzky, was older than Matthews as a rookie. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) To avoid a stockpile of holiday cards, “save only those that are meaningful and special,” Tova Weinstock, a professional organizer in Brooklyn, said. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) It also captures hundreds of billions in savings by slowing the rate of growth in certain Medicare payments. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v bring into safety Syn|Hypo bring through, carry through, pull through deliver, rescue free from harm or evil relieve, salvage, salvesave from ruin, destruction, or harm reprieverelieve temporarily 2v save from ruin, destruction, or harm Syn|Hyper relieve, salvage, salve deliver, rescue free from harm or evil 3v save from sins Syn deliver, redeem 4v refrain from harming Syn|Hypo|Hyper spare favor, favour treat gently or carefully forbear, refrain resist doing something 5n (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring 2the goalie made a brilliant save the relief pitcher got credit for a save Hyper bar, prevention the act of preventing 1v to keep up and reserve for personal or special use She saved the old family photographs in a drawer Syn|Hypo|Hyper preserve enter, put down, record make a record of; set down in permanent form conserve, economise, economize, husbanduse cautiously and frugally chalk up, tallykeep score, as in games clock in, clock on, punch inregister one's arrival at work record, taperegister electronically accessionmake a record of additions to a collection, such as a library postdisplay, as of records in sports games ring upto perform and record a sale on a cash register manifestrecord in a ship's manifest inscribewrite, engrave, or print as a lasting record chroniclerecord in chronological order; make a historical record file, file awayplace in a container for keeping records documentrecord in detail logenter into a log, as on ships and planes clock up, log uprecord a distance travelled; on planes and cars film, shoot, takemake a film or photograph of something tape, videotaperecord on videotape photograph, shoot, snaprecord on photographic film mark, scoremake underscoring marks notchnotch a surface to record something keep, maintainmaintain by writing regular records filmrecord in film retrenchtighten one's belt; use resources carefully registerrecord in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions bookrecord a charge in a police register hold on, keep retain possession of 2v 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|Hyper make unnecessary forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent keep from happening or arising; make impossible 3v accumulate money for future use He saves half his salary Syn|Hypo lay aside, save up cache, hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away, stash save up as for future use 4v spend less; buy at a reduced price Hypo scrimp, skimp, stint subsist on a meager allowance 5v spend sparingly, avoid the waste of This move will save money Syn|Hypo|Hyper economise, economize tighten one's belt live frugally and use less resources drop, expend, spend pay out 6v retain rights to 3Syn|Hyper hold open, keep, keep open hold on, keep retain possession of book, hold, reserve arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance v record data on a computer Syn|Hypo|Hyper write overwrite write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data record, tape register electronically |
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