Save vs. Assign — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Save and Assign
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Save
To rescue from harm, danger, or loss
The lifeguard saved the struggling swimmer.
Assign
To select for a duty or office; appoint
Firefighters assigned to the city's industrial park.
Save
To prevent from dying
The doctors saved the patient.
Assign
To set apart for a particular purpose or place in a particular category; designate
Assigned the new species to an existing genus.
Save
To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem
Prayed to save his soul.
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Assign
To give out as a task; allot
Assigned homework to the class.
Save
To keep in a safe or healthy condition
God save King Richard!.
Assign
To ascribe; attribute
Assigned blame for the loss to a lack of good defense.
Save
To hold back for future use
Saved his best song for the encore.
Assign
To match or pair with
Assign a value to each of the variables.
Save
To avoid spending (money) so as to keep or accumulate it.
Assign
(Law) To transfer (property, rights, or interests) from one to another.
Save
To avoid spending (money or time) in an amount less than what circumstances normally require
Saved $25 at the sale.
Saved 15 minutes by taking a shortcut.
Assign
An assignee.
Save
To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve
Bought an efficient device that saves electricity.
Assign
(transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
To assign a day for trial
Save
To treat with care by avoiding fatigue, wear, or damage; spare
Wore sunglasses to save his eyesight.
Assign
(transitive) To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
To assign counsel for a prisoner
Save
To make unnecessary; obviate
By carrying two bags you can save an extra trip.
Assign
(transitive) To allot or give (something) as a task.
Save
To spare (someone) from having to do something.
Assign
(transitive) To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
Save
(Sports) To prevent (a goal) from being scored by blocking a shot. Used of a goalie.
Assign
(LGBT) To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
Save
To prevent an opponent from scoring (a point).
Assign
To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
Save
To preserve a victory in (a game).
Assign
To give (a value) to a variable.
We assign 100 to x.
Save
(Baseball) To preserve (another pitcher's win) by protecting one's team's lead during a stint of relief pitching.
Assign
An assignee.
Save
(Computers) To copy (a file) from a computer's main memory to a disk or other storage medium.
Assign
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Save
To avoid waste or expense; economize.
Assign
(obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
Save
To accumulate money
Saving for a vacation.
Assign
(obsolete) A design or purpose.
Save
To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss.
Assign
To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
In the order I assign to them.
The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.
He assigned to his men their several posts.
Save
(Sports) An act that prevents a ball or puck from entering a goal.
Assign
To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
All as the dwarf the way to her assigned.
It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
Save
(Baseball) A preservation by a relief pitcher of another pitcher's win.
Assign
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
Save
With the exception of; except
"No man enjoys self-reproach save a masochist" (Philip Wylie).
Assign
To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in furtherance of some trust.
Save
Were it not; except
The house would be finished by now, save that we had difficulty contracting a roofer.
Assign
A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so.
Save
Unless.
Assign
A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
Save
(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
Assign
Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
Save
To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
She was saved from drowning by a passer-by.
We were able to save a few of our possessions from the house fire.
Assign
Give out or allot;
We were assigned new uniforms
Save
To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
Assign
Attribute or credit to;
We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
People impute great cleverness to cats
Save
To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
Assign
Select something or someone for a specific purpose;
The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise
Save
(Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
Jesus Christ came to save sinners.
Assign
Attribute or give;
She put too much emphasis on her the last statement
He put all his efforts into this job
The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story
Save
(sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
Assign
Make undue claims to having
Save
(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.
Assign
Transfer one's right to
Save
To put aside, to avoid.
Assign
Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;
The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class
Save
(transitive) To store for future use.
Let's save the packaging in case we need to send the product back.
Save
(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
Save electricity by turning off the lights when you leave the room.
Save
(transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
Save
To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
Where did I save that document? I can't find it on the desktop.
Save
(intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
Save
To accumulate money or valuables.
Save
To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
She told me she's saving herself for marriage.
Save
An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
Save
In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
The goaltender made a great save.
Save
(baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
Jones retired seven to earn the save.
Save
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.
The giant wrestler continued to beat down his smaller opponent, until several wrestlers ran in for the save.
Save
(informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
Nice save.
Save
(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
If you're hit by a power cut, you'll lose all of your changes since your last save.
The game console can store up to eight saves on a single cartridge.
Save
(RPG) A saving throw.
Save
Except; with the exception of.
Save
Unless; except
Save
The herb sage, or salvia.
Save
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.
God save all this fair company.
He cried, saying, Lord, save me.
Thou hast . . . quitted all to saveA world from utter loss.
Save
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.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
Save
To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
Now save a nation, and now save a groat.
Save
To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
I'll save youThat labor, sir. All's now done.
Save
To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?
Save
To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit.
Save
To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material.
Save
Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
Five times received I forty stripes save one.
Save
Except; unless.
Save
(sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring;
The goalie made a brilliant save
The relief pitcher got credit for a save
Save
Save from ruin, destruction, or harm
Save
To keep up and reserve for personal or special use;
She saved the old family photographs in a drawer
Save
Bring into safety;
We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack
Save
Spend less; buy at a reduced price
Save
Feather one's nest; have a nest egg;
He saves half his salary
Save
Make unnecessary an expenditure or effort;
This will save money
I'll save you the trouble
This will save you a lot of time
Save
Save from sins
Save
Refrain from harming
Save
Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of;
This move will save money
The less fortunate will have to economize now
Save
Retain rights to;
Keep my job for me while I give birth
Keep my seat, please
Keep open the possibility of a merger
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