Deliver vs. Save — What's the Difference?

To bring or transport to the proper place or recipient; distribute

To rescue from harm, danger, or loss

To surrender (someone or something) to another; hand over

To prevent from dying

To secure (something promised or desired), as for a candidate or political party

To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem

To throw or hurl

To keep in a safe or healthy condition

To strike (a blow).

To hold back for future use

To express in words; declare or utter

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

To give birth to

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

To assist or aid in the birth of

To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve

To assist (a woman) in giving birth

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

To give forth or produce

To make unnecessary; obviate

To set free, as from captivity, peril, or evil

To spare (someone) from having to do something.

To set free from restraint or danger.

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

(process) To do with birth.

To prevent an opponent from scoring (a point).

To assist in the birth of.

To preserve a victory in (a game).

To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).

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

To give birth to.

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

To free from or disburden of anything.

To avoid waste or expense; economize.

To bring or transport something to its destination.

To accumulate money

To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.

To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss.

To produce what is expected or required.

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

To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.

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

To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.

With the exception of; except

To discover; to show.

Were it not; except

(medicine) To administer a drug.

Unless.

(rare) Capable, agile, or active.

(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; - often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.

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

To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; - often with up or over, to or into.

To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.

To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.

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

To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.

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

To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; - often with of.

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

To discover; to show.

(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 deliberate.

To put aside, to avoid.

To admit; to allow to pass.

(transitive) To store for future use.

Free; nimble; sprightly; active.

(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.

Deliver (a speech, oration, or idea);

(transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.

Bring to a destination, make a delivery;

To write a file to disk or other storage medium.

To surrender someone or something to another;

(intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.

Free from harm or evil

To accumulate money or valuables.

Hand over to the authorities of another country;

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

Pass down;

An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

Utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.);

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

Save from sins

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

Carry out or perform;

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.

Relinquish possession or control over;

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

Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball;

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

Give birth (to a newborn);

(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;