Save vs. Write — What's the Difference?

To rescue from harm, danger, or loss

Mark (letters, words, or other symbols) on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil, or similar implement

To prevent from dying

Compose, write, and send (a letter) to someone

To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem

Compose (a text or work) for written or printed reproduction or publication; put into literary form and set down in writing

To keep in a safe or healthy condition

Enter (data) into a specified storage medium or location in store

To hold back for future use

Underwrite (an insurance policy).

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

To form (letters, words, or symbols) on a surface such as paper with an instrument such as a pen.

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

To form (letters or words) in cursive style, especially in contrast to printing by hand.

To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve

To spell

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

To fill (an amount of space) with words or information

To make unnecessary; obviate

To put written information in the blank spaces of (a check, form, or similar document).

To spare (someone) from having to do something.

To produce or compose (text) in a recorded form that can be read

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

To express in writing; set down

To prevent an opponent from scoring (a point).

To communicate by writing, especially by written letter

To preserve a victory in (a game).

To communicate with (someone) by writing, especially by letter

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

To compose (a musical work).

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

To underwrite, as an insurance policy.

To avoid waste or expense; economize.

To compose in legal form; draft

To accumulate money

To indicate; mark

To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss.

To ordain or prophesy

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

(Computers) To transfer or copy (information) from memory to a storage device or output device.

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

To trace or form letters, words, or symbols on paper or another surface

With the exception of; except

To produce written material, such as articles or books

Were it not; except

To compose a letter, email, or other written communication

Unless.

(ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.

(transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).

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

(transitive) To send written information to.

To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.

(transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.

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

To convey a fact to someone via writing.

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

(intransitive) To be an author.

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

To record data mechanically or electronically.

(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 fill in, to complete using words.

To put aside, to avoid.

To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.

(transitive) To store for future use.

To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.

(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.

(finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).

(transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.

To paint a religious icon.

To write a file to disk or other storage medium.

The act or style of writing.

(intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.

(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

To accumulate money or valuables.

To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.

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

To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.

An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.

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

To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.

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

To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; - often used reflexively.

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.

To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.

(informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.

To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.

(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.

To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.

(RPG) A saving throw.

To compose or send letters.

Except; with the exception of.

Produce a literary work;

Unless; except

Communicate or express by writing;

The herb sage, or salvia.

Have (one's written work) issued for publication;

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.

Communicate (with) in writing;

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.

Communicate by letter;

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

Write music;

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

Mark or trace on a surface;

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

Record data on a computer;

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

Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word);

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;