Releasing vs. Save — What's the Difference?

To set free from confinement or bondage

To rescue from harm, danger, or loss

To set free from physical restraint or binding; let go

To prevent from dying

To cause or allow to move away or spread from a source or place of confinement

To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem

To make available for use

To keep in a safe or healthy condition

To set free from obligations, commitments, or debt

To hold back for future use

To relieve of care or suffering

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

To issue for performance, sale, publication, or distribution

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

To make known or available

To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve

(Law) To surrender (a right, claim, or title).

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

Deliverance or liberation, as from confinement.

To make unnecessary; obviate

Discharge from an obligation or commitment.

To spare (someone) from having to do something.

Relief from suffering or care.

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

An unfastening or letting go, as of something caught or held fast.

To prevent an opponent from scoring (a point).

(Sports) The action of throwing a ball or propelling a puck

To preserve a victory in (a game).

(Linguistics) The movement of a vocal organ or organs so as to end the closure of a stop consonant.

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

A device or catch for locking or releasing a mechanism.

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

The act or an instance of issuing something for publication, use, or distribution.

To avoid waste or expense; economize.

Something thus issued

To accumulate money

The condition of being available, in use, or in publication

To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss.

The surrender of a right, title, or claim, especially to one against whom the right, title, or claim would be enforced or exercised.

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

The document attesting to such surrender.

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

Present participle of release

With the exception of; except

The act by which something is released.

Were it not; except

Emotionally purging (of e.g. art)

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;