Save vs. Rescue

Savenoun

In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.

Savenoun

(baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead.

Savenoun

A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.

Savenoun

(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.

Savenoun

(RPG) A saving throw.

Saveverb

(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.

Saveverb

To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.

Saveverb

To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.

Saveverb

To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.

Saveverb

(theology) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.

Saveverb

(sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).

Saveverb

To put aside, to avoid.

Saveverb

(transitive) To store for future use.

Saveverb

(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.

Saveverb

(transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.

Saveverb

To write a file to disk or other storage medium.

Saveverb

(intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.

Saveverb

To accumulate money or valuables.

Savepreposition

Except; with the exception of.

Saveconjunction

(dated) unless; except

Savenoun

The herb sage, or salvia.

Saveverb

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.

Saveverb

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.

Saveverb

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

Saveverb

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

Saveverb

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

Saveverb

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

Saveverb

To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.

Save

Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.

Saveconjunction

Except; unless.

Savenoun

(sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring;

Saveverb

save from ruin, destruction, or harm

Saveverb

to keep up and reserve for personal or special use;

Saveverb

bring into safety;

Saveverb

spend less; buy at a reduced price

Saveverb

feather one's nest; have a nest egg;

Saveverb

make unnecessary an expenditure or effort;

Saveverb

save from sins

Saveverb

refrain from harming

Saveverb

spend sparingly, avoid the waste of;

Saveverb

retain rights to;

Rescueverb

To save from any violence, danger or evil.

Rescueverb

To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.

Rescueverb

To recover forcibly.

Rescueverb

To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.

Rescueverb

(figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.

Rescueverb

(figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.

Rescuenoun

An act or episode of rescuing, saving.

Rescuenoun

A liberation, freeing.

Rescuenoun

The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril

Rescuenoun

A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded

Rescuenoun

A rescuee.

Rescueverb

To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.

Rescuenoun

The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

Rescuenoun

The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

Rescuenoun

recovery or preservation from loss or danger;

Rescueverb

free from harm or evil

Rescueverb

take forcibly from legal custody;

Rescue

Rescue comprises responsive operations that usually involve the saving of life, or the urgent treatment of injuries after an accident or a dangerous situation. Tools used might include search and rescue dogs, mounted search and rescue horses, helicopters, the , and other hydraulic cutting and spreading tools used to extricate individuals from wrecked vehicles.