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Save-all

Definition: Save-all

Save-all

Noun

1. A receptacle for catching waste products for further use.

2. A sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail.

3. A net hung between ship and pier while loading a ship.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "save-all" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references)

Note: Save-all \Save"-all`\, noun. [Save all.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Save-all

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

SAVE-ALL. A kind of candlestick used by our frugal forefathers, to burn snuffs and ends of candles. Figuratively, boys running about gentlemen's houses in Ireland, who are fed on broken meats that would otherwise be wasted, also a miser. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Save-all

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Economy

Savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Save-all

Language Translations for "save-all"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

съд за събиране на отпадъци, скъперник (accumulator, churl, curmudgeon, hunks, miser, muckworm, scrape-penny, screw), работно облекло, работна престилка (frock), нещо което предпазва, нещо което пази, малко помощно платно. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

保存所有. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

장하 모" . (various references)

   

Manx

  

fer sondagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ave-allsay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cofre (ash-bin, cashier's stand, chest, coffer, dower-chest, fund, money box, safe, safe deposit box, strongbox, vault). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

dispozitiv de protecţie. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

apuracabos. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

скнара (chuff, churl, clam, codger, curmudgeon, miser, nip-cheese, piker, scraper, skinflint), фартух (apron, brat, pinafore, tire), пастка (await, booby trap, catch, deadfall, decoy, gin, leash, net, noose, trap, trepan). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Save-all

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-l-s-v"

-2 letters: lavas, laves, salal, salve, selva, slave, vales, valse, vasal, veals.

-3 letters: aals, alae, alas, ales, alls, asea, aves, ells, lase, lava, lave, lavs, leal, leas, leva, sale, sall, save, seal, sell, vale, vasa, vase, veal, vela.

-4 letters: aal, aas, ala, ale, all, als, ava, ave, ell, els, las, lav, lea, lev, sae, sal.

-5 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-l-s-v"
 

+1 letter: favellas, salvable.

 

+2 letters: alveolars, cavallies, lavaliers, valuables.

 

+3 letters: alleviates, lavalieres, vacillates, varicellas.

 

+4 letters: alleviators, labiovelars, lavallieres, palliatives, salvageable.

 

+5 letters: alleviations, appellatives, assaultively, evangelicals, valuableness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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