| salvation | | |
| n. (act) | 1. redemption, salvation | (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil. |
| ~ deliverance, rescue, saving, delivery | recovery or preservation from loss or danger.; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" |
| ~ remission of sin, absolution, remittal, remission | the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance. |
| ~ spiritual rebirth, conversion, rebirth | a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life. |
| ~ atonement, expiation, propitiation | the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity). |
| ~ theology, divinity | the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth. |
| n. (act) | 2. salvation | a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness.; "tourism was their economic salvation"; "they turned to individualism as their salvation" |
| ~ means, way, agency | how a result is obtained or an end is achieved.; "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success" |
| n. (state) | 3. salvation | the state of being saved or preserved from harm. |
| ~ safety | the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions.; "insure the safety of the children"; "the reciprocal of safety is risk" |
| n. (act) | 4. salvation | saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation.; "the salvation of his party was the president's major concern" |
| ~ deliverance, rescue, saving, delivery | recovery or preservation from loss or danger.; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" |
| save | | |
| n. (act) | 1. save | (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring.; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save" |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| ~ prevention, bar | the act of preventing.; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" |
| v. (social) | 2. relieve, salvage, salve, save | save from ruin, destruction, or harm. |
| ~ rescue, deliver | free from harm or evil. |
| v. (possession) | 3. preserve, save | to keep up and reserve for personal or special use.; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer" |
| ~ record, enter, put down | make a record of; set down in permanent form. |
| ~ keep, hold on | retain possession of.; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married" |
| ~ economize, husband, economise, conserve | use cautiously and frugally.; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit" |
| v. (social) | 4. bring through, carry through, pull through, save | bring into safety.; "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack" |
| ~ rescue, deliver | free from harm or evil. |
| v. (possession) | 5. save | spend less; buy at a reduced price. |
| ~ buy, purchase | obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction.; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store" |
| ~ scrimp, stint, skimp | subsist on a meager allowance.; "scratch and scrimp" |
| v. (possession) | 6. lay aside, save, save up | accumulate money for future use.; "He saves half his salary" |
| ~ cache, hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away, stash | save up as for future use. |
| v. (change) | 7. make unnecessary, save | make unnecessary an expenditure or effort.; "This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time" |
| ~ foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, forbid | keep from happening or arising; make impossible.; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" |
| v. (social) | 8. deliver, redeem, save | save from sins. |
| ~ organized religion, religion, faith | an institution to express belief in a divine power.; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted him" |
| v. (social) | 9. save, spare | refrain from harming. |
| ~ favour, favor | treat gently or carefully. |
| ~ refrain, forbear | resist doing something.; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping" |
| v. (possession) | 10. economise, economize, save | spend sparingly, avoid the waste of.; "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now" |
| ~ expend, spend, drop | pay out.; "spend money" |
| ~ tighten one's belt | live frugally and use less resources.; "In the new economy, we all have to learn to tighten our belts" |
| v. (possession) | 11. hold open, keep, keep open, save | retain rights to.; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger" |
| ~ keep, hold on | retain possession of.; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married" |
| ~ book, reserve, hold | arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance.; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's" |
| v. (communication) | 12. save, write | record data on a computer.; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk" |
| ~ computer science, computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures. |
| ~ record, tape | register electronically.; "They recorded her singing" |
| ~ overwrite | write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data.; "overwrite that file" |
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