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save
Verb
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If you save something, you keep it; you do not give it or toss it away.
Please save that book for me.
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If you save someone, you keep them safe or help them survive.
You saved my life.
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If you save information, you put it on a disk or into some kind of long-term memory.
He saved the resumé on the floppy disk.
save
Noun
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A save is when something was saved. This term is used in sports.
Due to a great save at the end, the game ended 0:0.
save
Preposition
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All of mathx/math save mathy/math describes only that part of mathx/math that is not mathy/math.
The night air was still and silent save for the voice of a female dispatcher over his police radio.
All my cats are white, save one.
river
Noun
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A channel of water.
We go swimming in the river.
The river bends there.
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A lot of something.
He won a river of votes.