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Definition: Save-all |
Save-allNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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