Save

Definition

save 1 /seÇ v / v ၁။ ~ sb/sth ( from sth/doing sth ) ကယ္သည္။ save sb's life ❍ It was too late for the doctors to save her and she died that night. ❍ save sb from drowning ❍ save a person from himself (eg from the results of his own foolish actions) ❍ Can the firm be saved from closure? ❍ He's trying to save their marriage. သူ႕အိမ္ေထာင္ မၿပိဳကြဲရ ေလေအာင္ သူႀကိဳးပမ္းေနပါတယ္။ ❍ She saved the set (ie at tennis) by winning the next game. ၂။ ~ (sth) (up) (for sth) (ေငြ)စုသည္။ You spend too much — you should start saving. ❍ I'm saving (up) for a new bike. ❍ We've been saving up to go to Australia. ❍ save some money every month ❍ She's managed to save up a few hundred pounds. ❍ save money for a house. ၃။ ~ sth (for sb/sth) ခ်န္/ဖယ္ထားသည္။ Don't eat all that chocolate now — save some of it. ❍ Save your strength for the hard work you'll have to do later. ❍ Save me some of those sweets/save some for me! ၄။ ~ ( on ) sth; ~ sth (on sth) ေခြၽတာသည္။ သက္သာေစသည္။ save on time and money by shopping at the supermarket ❍ save money on decorating by doing it yourself ❍ Book early and save £50! ၅။ ေရွာင္ရွားသည္။ သက္သာရာရေစသည္။ Order the goods by phone and save yourself a journey. ❍ This will save us a lot of trouble. ❍ explain sth clearly to save confusion ❍ Her parents' gift saved her from having to borrow from the bank. ❍ Walking to the office saves (me) spending money on bus fares. See also LABOUR-SAVING ၆။ ~ sb (from sth) ကယ္တင္သည္။ ကယ္မသည္။ He came into the world to save us (from our sins). ၇။ ( sport ) (ဂိုးမဝင္ေအာင္) ဖမ္းသည္၊ ကာကြယ္သည္။ The goalkeeper saved several close-range shots. n (ဂိုးမဝင္ေအာင္) ကာကြယ္ျခင္း။ He made some amazing saves. ❏ save one's/sb's bacon [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကယ္ဆယ္သည္။ ကယ္တင္သည္။ I was nearly bankrupt, but your loan saved my bacon. ❏ save one's breath [ IDM ] (ေလကုန္ခံ)ေျပာမေနႏွင့္။ Save your breath — you'll never persuade her. ❏ save the day/situation [ IDM ] ဝင္ကယ္လိုက္သည္။ Disagreements threatened to wreck the peace talks, but the President's intervention saved the situation. ❏ save (sb's) face [ IDM ] သိကၡာဆည္သည္။ အရွက္ေျပ (ေျပာ)သည္။ She'd actually been sacked, but she saved face by telling everyone she'd resigned. ❏ saver n ၁။ (ဘဏ္စသည္တြင္ပံုမွန္) စုေဆာင္းသူ။ The rise in interest rates is good news for savers. ၂။ ( Brit ) သက္သာႏႈန္းထား (ယာဥ္စီး)လက္မွတ္။ an off-peak saver ❍ a saver ticket. See also LIFE-SAVER ❏ save one's (own) skin [ IDM ] ( infml usu derog ) ကိုယ္လြတ္႐ုန္းသြားသည္။ When the rest of the gang were arrested, he saved his own skin by giving evidence against them. ❏ -saving (forming compound adjs ) ေခြၽတာေရး။ labour-saving devices ❍ energy-saving modifications. ❏ saving grace n (usu sing ) အဖတ္ဆယ္သည့္ ေကာင္းကြက္။ He may be mean and unreliable, but his one saving grace is his sense of humour. save 2 /seÇv/ (also save for ) prep ( dated or fml ) မွအပ။ ကလြဲလို႔။ We know nothing about her save (for) her name. conj ( dated or fml ) မွအပ။ ကလြဲလို႔။ He told us nothing about himself save that he came from Germany.

Examples

1. Campaigns to save the planet/rainforest/whale
2. A cure for lung cancer would save thousands of lives each year.
3. [save someone/something from something] : Only hard work will save this company from bankruptcy.
4. You can save £25 if you buy your tickets before Saturday.
5. Travelling by plane is more expensive
6. but it saves time.
7. [save someone something] : Democrats argue their plan will save the government money in the future.
8. [save something on something] : Save up to £10 on your next purchase with this coupon.
9. Setting down clear rules from the start will save arguments later on.
10. [save someone something] : If you get some milk on your way home
11. it’ll save me a trip to the shops.
12. [save someone doing something] : If you could tell her
13. that would save me phoning her.
14. [save someone the trouble/bother/expense (of doing something)] : Buying a machine with a grass box saves you the bother of raking up the grass.
15. [save something for someone/something] : Let’s have one piece of cake now and save the rest for later.
16. Save some energy for the end of the race.
17. Save eight tokens and you can get one of these amazing pens!
18. I’ve managed to save almost £500 for my holiday.
19. [save for] : Don’t wait until you’re 40 to start saving for retirement.
20. [save to do something] : We’ve been saving to buy a new car.
21. [save something for someone] : Would you please save a place in the queue for me?
22. [save someone something] : Save me some dinner and I’ll have it when I get in.
23. Where did you save the file you were working on?
24. It’s a good idea to save frequently.
25. Dearden saved a penalty in the second half.