Preserve vs. Save — What's the Difference?

To keep from injury, peril, or harm; protect.

To rescue from harm, danger, or loss

To keep in perfect or unaltered condition; maintain unchanged

To prevent from dying

To keep or maintain intact

To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem

To prepare (food) for storage or future use, as by canning or salting.

To keep in a safe or healthy condition

To prevent (organic bodies) from decaying or spoiling

To hold back for future use

To protect (wildlife or natural resources) in a designated area, often for regulated hunting or fishing.

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

To maintain (an area) for the protection of wildlife or natural resources.

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

To treat fruit or other foods so as to prevent decay.

To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve

To maintain an area for the protection of wildlife or natural resources.

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

Something that acts to preserve; a preservative.

To make unnecessary; obviate

Often preserves Fruit cooked with sugar to protect against decay or fermentation.

To spare (someone) from having to do something.

An area maintained for the protection of wildlife or natural resources.

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

Something considered as being the exclusive province of certain persons

To prevent an opponent from scoring (a point).

A sweet spread made of any of a variety of fruits.

To preserve a victory in (a game).

A reservation, a nature preserve.

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

An activity with restricted access.

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

To protect; to keep from harm or injury.

To avoid waste or expense; economize.

To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.

To accumulate money

To maintain throughout; to keep intact.

To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss.

To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.

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

To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes.

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

To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence.

With the exception of; except

To make preserves.

Were it not; except

To protect game for purposes of sport.

Unless.

That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; - commonly in the plural.

(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.

A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food.

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

A domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone;

To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.

A reservation where animals are protected

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

Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

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

Keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last;

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

Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction;

(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.

To keep up and reserve for personal or special use;

To put aside, to avoid.

Prevent (food) from rotting;

(transitive) To store for future use.

Maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger;

(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.

Keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing;

(transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.

To write a file to disk or other storage medium.

(intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.

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;