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adj
noun
- a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
- A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
- A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
- Scotch tape.
- Alternative form of Scotch (“whisky”).
- A surface cut or abrasion.
verb
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- make a small cut or score into
- (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
- (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
- (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
- (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) To rape.
- (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
- (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
verb
- use cautiously and frugally
- preserve with sugar
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change
- (transitive) To save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.
- (physics, chemistry, intransitive) To remain unchanged during a process
- (transitive) To protect an environment, heritage, etc.
noun
verb
noun
- a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
- (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
verb
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
noun
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) 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.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
conj
prep
adj
- Containing or yielding much waste.
- Resembling a waste or wasteland; desert; (by extension) deserted, desolate.
- (US) Resembling cotton-waste (the leftover cotton fibers from manufacturing and post-consumer sources that can be recycled into new products).
- (of produce) Deteriorating, wasting away.
- (of livestock) Obese; excessively fat.
noun
- Frugal use of resources.
- frugality in the expenditure of money or resources
- the efficient use of resources
- (theology) The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)
- (US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
- The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
- The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- the system of production and distribution and consumption
adj
adv
noun
- Specifically, the prudent care and management of resources; thriftiness, frugality.
- the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources
- The careful governance and guidance of God (or another deity, nature, etc.).
- A manifestation of divine care or direction; an instance of divine intervention.
- a manifestation of God's foresightful care for their creatures
- the guardianship and control exercised by a deity
noun
noun
noun
- the process of wasting
- anything lost by wear or waste
- (uncountable) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.
- (countable) Anything lost by wear or waste.
- (uncountable) The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation, as perceived by those aspiring to promotion or appointment in the organisation.
- (hunting, countable) The act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts, usually illegal.
- (uncountable) Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss.
adj
noun
adj
noun
noun
- Wise use of natural resources.
- (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
- The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
- (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
- (physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
- (biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
- the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
- an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
- (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
verb
- use frugally or carefully
- give up what is not strictly needed
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
adj
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- thin and fit
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
noun
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
noun
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
- a cause for feeling concern
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- an anxious feeling
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
- (uncountable) The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
- (uncountable, UK) The state of being cared for by others.
- (uncountable) Maintenance, upkeep.
- (countable, uncountable) Worry.
- Close attention; concern; responsibility.
verb
- to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something
- be concerned with
- feel concern or interest
- provide care for
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- (intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
- (intransitive, informal, by extension) To be affected by, to treat as relevant for a subsequent course of action.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
- (intransitive, polite, formal, chiefly in the negative) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards or interested in.
- (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
noun
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
- a warning against certain acts
- the trait of being circumspect and prudent
- the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger
- (soccer) A yellow card.
- A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided.
- Prudence when faced with, or when expecting to face, danger; care taken in order to avoid risk or harm.
- (law) A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
- Security; guaranty; bail.
verb
noun
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- the trait of practicing caution in advance
- Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent misfortune or to secure good.
- A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act.
verb
adj
- avoiding excess
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- unimaginatively conventional
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- Cautious, moderate.
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
noun
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
noun
- the quality of being prudent and sensible
- the muscle tone of healthy tissue
- a state or condition free from damage or decay
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being sound.
- (logic) The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is a theorem then it must also be valid. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever T⊢φ is true, then T⊨φ must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.
- (logic) The property (of an argument) of not only being valid, but also of having true premises.
- (countable) The result or product of being sound.
noun
- the quality of being prudent and sensible
- accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
- ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
- the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
- (rare) A group of owls.
- The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
- (uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
- (theology) The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
- The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
- (countable, colloquial) Ellipsis of wisdom tooth.
- (rare) A group of wombats.
- (countable) A piece of wise advice.
- The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
noun
- The prudent management or conservation of resources.
- Techniques of animal care.
- The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
- (now chiefly nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day matters.
- the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
adj
- Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
- Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).
- Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
- (proscribed, old use) effective, efficacious
- being effective without wasting time or effort or expense
- able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively
noun
- the trait of wasting resources
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
adj
verb
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
adj
adj
- prudent
- (especially heraldry) Having a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).
- Watched over; supervised.
- Cautious; restrained.
- (medicine, of prognosis) A good outcome has fair odds of happening but close monitoring is important because odds of deterioration are not low.
verb
noun
- Frugal use of resources.
- frugality in the expenditure of money or resources
- the efficient use of resources
- (theology) The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)
- (US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
- The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
- The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- the system of production and distribution and consumption
adj
adv
noun
- Specifically, the prudent care and management of resources; thriftiness, frugality.
- the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources
- The careful governance and guidance of God (or another deity, nature, etc.).
- A manifestation of divine care or direction; an instance of divine intervention.
- a manifestation of God's foresightful care for their creatures
- the guardianship and control exercised by a deity
noun
noun
noun
- the process of wasting
- anything lost by wear or waste
- (uncountable) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.
- (countable) Anything lost by wear or waste.
- (uncountable) The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation, as perceived by those aspiring to promotion or appointment in the organisation.
- (hunting, countable) The act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts, usually illegal.
- (uncountable) Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss.
noun
- Wise use of natural resources.
- (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
- The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
- (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
- (physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
- (biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
- the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
- an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
- (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
noun
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
- a cause for feeling concern
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- an anxious feeling
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
- (uncountable) The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
- (uncountable, UK) The state of being cared for by others.
- (uncountable) Maintenance, upkeep.
- (countable, uncountable) Worry.
- Close attention; concern; responsibility.
verb
- to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something
- be concerned with
- feel concern or interest
- provide care for
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- (intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
- (intransitive, informal, by extension) To be affected by, to treat as relevant for a subsequent course of action.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
- (intransitive, polite, formal, chiefly in the negative) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards or interested in.
- (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
noun
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
- a warning against certain acts
- the trait of being circumspect and prudent
- the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger
- (soccer) A yellow card.
- A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided.
- Prudence when faced with, or when expecting to face, danger; care taken in order to avoid risk or harm.
- (law) A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
- Security; guaranty; bail.
verb
noun
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- the trait of practicing caution in advance
- Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent misfortune or to secure good.
- A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act.
verb
noun
- the quality of being prudent and sensible
- the muscle tone of healthy tissue
- a state or condition free from damage or decay
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being sound.
- (logic) The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is a theorem then it must also be valid. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever T⊢φ is true, then T⊨φ must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.
- (logic) The property (of an argument) of not only being valid, but also of having true premises.
- (countable) The result or product of being sound.
noun
- the quality of being prudent and sensible
- accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
- ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
- the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
- (rare) A group of owls.
- The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
- (uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
- (theology) The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
- The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
- (countable, colloquial) Ellipsis of wisdom tooth.
- (rare) A group of wombats.
- (countable) A piece of wise advice.
- The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
noun
- The prudent management or conservation of resources.
- Techniques of animal care.
- The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
- (now chiefly nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day matters.
- the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
noun
- the trait of wasting resources
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
adj
verb
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
verb
- use cautiously and frugally
- preserve with sugar
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change
- (transitive) To save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.
- (physics, chemistry, intransitive) To remain unchanged during a process
- (transitive) To protect an environment, heritage, etc.
noun
verb
noun
- a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
- (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
verb
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
noun
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) 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.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
conj
prep
verb
- use frugally or carefully
- give up what is not strictly needed
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
adj
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- thin and fit
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
noun
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
adj
noun
- a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
- A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
- A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
- Scotch tape.
- Alternative form of Scotch (“whisky”).
- A surface cut or abrasion.
verb
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- make a small cut or score into
- (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
- (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
- (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
- (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) To rape.
- (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
- (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
adj
- Containing or yielding much waste.
- Resembling a waste or wasteland; desert; (by extension) deserted, desolate.
- (US) Resembling cotton-waste (the leftover cotton fibers from manufacturing and post-consumer sources that can be recycled into new products).
- (of produce) Deteriorating, wasting away.
- (of livestock) Obese; excessively fat.
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noun
adj
noun
adj
- avoiding excess
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- unimaginatively conventional
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- Cautious, moderate.
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
noun
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
adj
- Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
- Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).
- Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
- (proscribed, old use) effective, efficacious
- being effective without wasting time or effort or expense
- able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively
adj
adj
- prudent
- (especially heraldry) Having a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).
- Watched over; supervised.
- Cautious; restrained.
- (medicine, of prognosis) A good outcome has fair odds of happening but close monitoring is important because odds of deterioration are not low.