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English Dictionary: saving	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for saving
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
saving adj bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" Synonym(s): redemptive, redeeming(a), saving(a) characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow n an act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents" Synonym(s): economy, saving recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" Synonym(s): rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving the activity of protecting something from loss or danger Synonym(s): preservation, saving
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Saving \Sav"ing\, a. 1. Preserving; rescuing. He is the saving strength of his anointed. --Ps. xxviii. 8. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Saving \Sav"ing\ (s[amac]v"[icr]ng), prep. [or] conj.; but properly a participle. With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. [bd]Saving your reverence.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Saving your presence.[b8] --Burns. None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing. --Neh. iv. 23. And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. --Rev. ii. 17.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Saving \Sav"ing\, 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. --L'Estrange. {Savings bank}, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.