'Saving' definitions:

Definition of 'saving'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" [syn: redemptive, redeeming(a), saving(a)]
adjective
Characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow
noun
An act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents" [syn: economy, saving]
noun
Recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" [syn: rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving]
noun
The activity of protecting something from loss or danger [syn: preservation, saving]

Definition of 'Saving'

From: GCIDE
  • Save \Save\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saved; p. pr. & vb. n. Saving.] [OE. saven, sauven, salven, OF. salver, sauver, F. sauver, L. salvare, fr. salvus saved, safe. See Safe, a.]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • God save all this fair company. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • He cried, saying, Lord, save me. --Matt. xiv. 30. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from utter loss. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Theol.) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. --1 Tim. i. 15. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve. [1913 Webster]
  • Now save a nation, and now save a groat. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare. [1913 Webster]
  • I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare. [1913 Webster]
  • Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. [1913 Webster]
  • Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • To save appearances, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Saving'

From: GCIDE
  • Saving \Sav"ing\, a.
  • 1. Preserving; rescuing. [1913 Webster]
  • He is the saving strength of his anointed. --Ps. xxviii. 8. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Saving'

From: GCIDE
  • Saving \Sav"ing\ (s[=a]v"[i^]ng), prep. or conj.; but properly a participle. With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. "Saving your reverence." --Shak. "Saving your presence." --Burns. [1913 Webster]
  • None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing. --Neh. iv. 23. [1913 Webster]
  • And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. --Rev. ii. 17. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Saving'

From: GCIDE
  • Saving \Sav"ing\, n.
  • 1. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Exception; reservation. [1913 Webster]
  • Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
  • Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'saving'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Saving'