{
  "id": "save.preservation",
  "term": "save",
  "sense": "preservation",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to keep an item so it is not a loss",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "keep.maintenance",
      "loss.economic",
      "items.object"
    ],
    "interaction": "When keep item, loss does not occur.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "prevention of loss",
      "preserved state",
      "future availability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves over 1.2 million crop varieties in permafrost to prevent extinction from global crises.",
      "domain": "agriculture"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Library of Alexandria digitization project archives ancient manuscripts to protect knowledge from physical degradation and conflict.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "RAID 1 disk mirroring saves data by duplicating it across two drives, preventing loss if one fails.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "keep.maintenance",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "archive.record",
    "recorded.information"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "save",
    "saved",
    "saves",
    "saving"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-save.preservation"
}