Shave vs. Save: What's the Difference?

To remove the beard or other body hair from, with a razor or shaver

To rescue from harm, danger, or loss

To cut (the beard, for example) at the surface of the skin with a razor or shaver.

To prevent from dying

To crop, trim, or mow closely

To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem

To remove thin slices from

To keep in a safe or healthy condition

To cut or scrape into thin slices; shred

To hold back for future use

To come close to or graze in passing.

To avoid spending (money) so as to keep or accumulate it.

(transitive) To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.

To avoid spending (money or time) in an amount less than what circumstances normally require

(transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.

To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve

(intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.

To treat with care by avoiding fatigue, wear, or damage; spare

(transitive) To cut finely, as with slices of meat.

To make unnecessary; obviate

To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.

To spare (someone) from having to do something.

To reduce in size or weight.

(Sports) To prevent (a goal) from being scored by blocking a shot. Used of a goalie.

To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.

To prevent an opponent from scoring (a point).

To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows.

To preserve a victory in (a game).

An instance of shaving.

(Baseball) To preserve (another pitcher's win) by protecting one's team's lead during a stint of relief pitching.

A thin slice; a shaving.

(Computers) To copy (a file) from a computer's main memory to a disk or other storage medium.

An exorbitant discount on a note.

To avoid waste or expense; economize.

A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular.

To accumulate money

A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a spokeshave.

To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss.

(informal) A narrow miss or escape; a close shave.

(Sports) An act that prevents a ball or puck from entering a goal.

To cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a razor or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a razor; as, to shave the beard.

(Baseball) A preservation by a relief pitcher of another pitcher's win.

To make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the surface, or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair from with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off the beard or hair of; as, to shave the face or the crown of the head; he shaved himself.

With the exception of; except

To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices.

Were it not; except

To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.

Unless.

To strip; to plunder; to fleece.

(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.

To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat.

To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.

A thin slice; a shaving.

To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.

A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving.

To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.

An exorbitant discount on a note.

(Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.

A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave.

(sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).

The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave.

(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.

The act of removing hair with a razor

To put aside, to avoid.

Remove body hair with a razor

(transitive) To store for future use.

Cut closely;

(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.

Cut the price of

(transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.

Cut or remove with or as if with a plane;

To write a file to disk or other storage medium.

Make shavings of or reduce to shavings;

(intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.

Touch the surface of lightly;

To accumulate money or valuables.

To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.

An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.

(baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.

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.

(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.

(RPG) A saving throw.

Except; with the exception of.

Unless; except

The herb sage, or salvia.

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.

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.

To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.

To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.

To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.

To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.

To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.

Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.

Except; unless.

(sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring;

Save from ruin, destruction, or harm

To keep up and reserve for personal or special use;

Bring into safety;

Spend less; buy at a reduced price

Feather one's nest; have a nest egg;

Make unnecessary an expenditure or effort;

Save from sins

Refrain from harming

Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of;

Retain rights to;