What's the difference between save and unnecessary?

Save


Definition:

  • (n.) The herb sage, or salvia.
  • (a.) 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.
  • (a.) 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.
  • (a.) To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
  • (a.) To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
  • (a.) To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
  • (a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
  • (v. i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
  • (a.) Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
  • (conj.) Except; unless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
  • (2) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
  • (3) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
  • (4) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (5) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
  • (6) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
  • (7) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
  • (8) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
  • (9) Johnson said the move would save businesses £350m from not having to meet the more exacting standards, which will now only have to be met by buses.
  • (10) We believe our proposal will save taxpayers about £4m and reduce by about 11,000 the number of legally aided cases brought by prisoners each year.
  • (11) Thus, it is obvious that new measures will have to be taken if lives are to be saved in future events of this nature.
  • (12) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (13) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
  • (14) As part of the shake-up, the rule that says only half can be saved in cash is being abolished.
  • (15) Patients treated with ciprofloxacin may need added coverage for anaerobes, but the drug's excellent activity against nosocomial pathogens and its availability in oral form allow for an early change to oral therapy without compromising effectiveness coupled with added savings and convenience.
  • (16) Given the financial crisis this government inherited, we had no choice but to make significant savings.
  • (17) To comply with these rules, interest is not paid on Islamic savings or current accounts, or charged on Islamic mortgages.
  • (18) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.
  • (19) In the lowest prevalence scenario (0.02 initial prevalence), initiation of the program resulted in a projected savings of 2.3 life years per HIV-negative drug user, compared with 1.7 and 1.3 years under medium (0.25) and high (0.60) prevalence, respectively.
  • (20) He denied that the probation service budget, which has been protected so far from 23% cuts, would be a particular target, but said it was not yet making the same level of savings as was being required of the police.

Unnecessary


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (2) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
  • (3) This may result in the unnecessary implementation of antidotal therapy.
  • (4) Thus, the enzyme-immunoassay shows specificity and sensitivity comparable to radioimmunoassay making use of radioactive tracer unnecessary.
  • (5) It is important to be aware of the histological characteristics of this essentially benign condition so that unnecessary radical therapies can be avoided.
  • (6) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
  • (7) It is unnecessary to make any special more complicated incision designed to avoid lymphatics.
  • (8) In these cases, a thyroid scintiscan may avoid an unnecessary surgical intervention.
  • (9) The differentiation between the various modes of involvement is essential as some of them may be confused with recurrence and the clinician might resort to unnecessary drastic measures like enucleation.
  • (10) Check out the latest bill from Russia's parliament, the Duma: its aim is to ban the "unnecessary" usage of foreign words (in cases where there is a pre-existing Russian counterpart).
  • (11) Standard additions are unnecessary; Pt concentrations are read from a calibration chart of peak heights, which is linear up to 1.6 mg per liter.
  • (12) We encountered terrorists who wanted to kill us and we did everything we could to prevent unnecessary injury."
  • (13) Thus, modification in the dosage regimen of digoxin may be unnecessary in the case of coadministration with captopril.
  • (14) Only CT-guided or direct parasternal biopsy including immunhistochemistry can yield a reliable preoperative diagnosis and prevent unnecessary operation of lymphomas.
  • (15) The sonographic method, with a 97.7% specificity and a negative predictive value of 89.5%, proved to be specific enough to eliminate the necessity of routine catheterization for measuring residual bladder volumes of greater than or equal to 150 cm3, thus decreasing the incidence of some major postoperative complications that can occur due to unnecessary catheterization.
  • (16) With these scores we expect to facilitate the diagnostic screening, to indicate the way of therapy and to avoid unnecessary surgery for urinary incontinence in cases of motor-urge-incontinence (detrusor instability, unstable bladder), as long as a urodynamic examination is not feasible on every incontinent women.
  • (17) In some cases this has led to the misdiagnosis of mediastinal pathology and an unnecessary thoracotomy.
  • (18) No abdominal injuries were present in the group in whom the lavage results were negative, while no unnecessary laparotomies were performed in the group with a 4+ or 5+ positive DPL (calorimetric method).
  • (19) It would thus appear that repetition of the hCG injection at intervals of less than 4 days is unnecessary, and that a total stimulation period of 2-3 weeks is sufficient.
  • (20) The importance of ECG studies in these cases is stressed in order to establish the differential diagnosis and avoid unnecessary delays in the application of the proper therapy.