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=== Pronunciation ===
* {{enPR|sāv}}, {{IPA|/seɪv/}}
* {{SAMPA|/seIv/}}
* {{audio|en-us-save.ogg|US}}

== Verb ==
{{verb|sav|e}}
# If you '''save''' something, you [[keep]] it; you do not give it or toss it away.
#: ''Please '''save''' that book for me.''
# If you '''save''' someone, you keep them safe or help them [[survive]].
#: ''You '''saved''' my life.''
# {{context|computer science}} 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.''

== Noun ==
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# {{countable}} 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.''

== Preposition ==
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# All of <math>x</math> '''save''' <math>y</math> describes only that part of <math>x</math> that is not <math>y</math>. {{syn|except|but}}
#: ''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.''
#: ''We know little of her background, '''save''' that she was born in Mississauga.''

[[Category:Prepositions with clause complements]]
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