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Saving   /sˈeɪvɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Save  v. t.  (past & past part. saved; pres. part. saving)  
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." "He cried, saying, Lord, save me." "Thou hast... quitted all to save A world from utter loss."
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."
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."
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."
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?"
6.
To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. "Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit."
To save appearances, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things.
Synonyms: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent.


Save  v. i.  To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical. "Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material."


noun
Saving  n.  
1.
Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
2.
Exception; reservation. "Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty."
Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.


adjective
Saving  adj.  
1.
Preserving; rescuing. "He is the saving strength of his anointed."
2.
Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
3.
Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage.
4.
Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause. Note: Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc.


preposition
Saving  prep., conj.  With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. "Saving your reverence." "Saving your presence." "None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing." "And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Saving" Quotes from Famous Books



... hill rapidly and carelessly. Hugh, stung by pain and anger, threw himself over the rocks, and Sylvie was too proud to show her timidity or to ask for help. She crept and climbed up and down, saving herself with groping hand, letting one foot test the distances before she put the other down. At last the rattle of his progress sounded so far below that she quavered: "Aren't you going to wait ...
— Snow-Blind • Katharine Newlin Burt
... sometimes several different floors, and when they are winnowing the grain on windy days the whole village becomes covered with an inch or two of chaff. I am glad to find these threshing-floors in the villages, because they give me an excellent opportunity to ride and satisfy the people, thus saving me no end of ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens
... to see what ruthless conquest meant even if it seemed to be far away. Therefore, we acted promptly and we hope with efficiency and have since carried on the work in the sphere allotted to us by nature with a devotion that has never flagged. It has been our duty not to reason why, but to help in saving the world without bargains, or dickerings, or suggestions, thus bearing our part in the rescue of ...
— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy
... upsetting those solemn, engagements by incurring the Levitical penalty of contact with a corpse? There was but a mere chance that they could do any good. This person was entirely unknown to them; his life might not be worth saving, for he might be a rascal; and, on the other hand, there were sacred duties—duties to their God. What priest or Levite, with proper religious instincts, could ...
— Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers - Gideon; Samuel; Saul; Miriam's Schooling; and Michael Trevanion • Mark Rutherford
... hard work and increasing anxieties of forty years of authorship, when I saw her she was as fresh and independent as a skylark. She was a good hater as well as a good praiser, and she left nothing worth saving in ...
— Yesterdays with Authors • James T. Fields


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