Save vs. Server — What's the Difference?

To rescue from harm, danger, or loss

One who serves food and drink. See Usage Note at waiter.

To prevent from dying

Something, such as a tray, that is used in serving food and drink.

To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem

An altar server.

To keep in a safe or healthy condition

(Law) One who serves a legal process, such as a summons or court order.

To hold back for future use

(Sports) The player who serves, as in court games.

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

A file server.

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

A computer that processes requests for HTML and other documents that are components of webpages.

To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve

(computing) A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network.

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

(computing) A computer dedicated to running such programs.

To make unnecessary; obviate

One who serves.

To spare (someone) from having to do something.

A waitress or waiter.

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

The player who serves the ball.

To prevent an opponent from scoring (a point).

(Christianity) A priest's attendant at the celebration of the Eucharist.

To preserve a victory in (a game).

A tray for dishes.

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

A spoon for serving food.

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

One who serves.

To avoid waste or expense; economize.

A tray for dishes; a salver.

To accumulate money

A person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)

To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss.

(court games) the player who serves to start a point

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

(computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network

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

Utensil used in serving food or drink

With the exception of; except

Were it not; except

Unless.

(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.

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

To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.

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

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

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

(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 put aside, to avoid.

(transitive) To store for future use.

(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.

(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;