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SALVAGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("salvage" is a kind of...):

deliverance; delivery; rescue; saving (recovery or preservation from loss or danger)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("salvage" is a kind of...):

deliverance; delivery; rescue; saving (recovery or preservation from loss or danger)

Derivation:

salvage; salve (save from ruin, destruction, or harm)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Property or goods saved from damage or destruction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("salvage" is a kind of...):

commodity; good; trade good (articles of commerce)

belongings; holding; property (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone)

Derivation:

salvage; salve (save from ruin, destruction, or harm)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Collect discarded material

Example:

She scavenged the garbage cans for food

Synonyms:

salvage; scavenge

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "salvage" is one way to...):

collect; garner; gather; pull together (assemble or get together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

salvager (someone who salvages)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Save from ruin, destruction, or harm

Synonyms:

relieve; salvage; salve; save

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "salvage" is one way to...):

deliver; rescue (free from harm or evil)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

salvage (the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction)

salvage (property or goods saved from damage or destruction)

salvager (someone who salvages)

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 Context examples: 

MPA displays high lymphocyte specificity and cytotoxicity because lymphocyte metabolism is highly dependent on both salvage and de novo synthesis of guanine nucleotides.

(Mycophenolate, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in purine salvage.

(MTAP Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Hirudotherapy is mainly used in trauma and plastic and reconstructive surgery to salvage tissue flaps and skin grafts whose viability is threatened by venous congestion.

(Hirudotherapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Phosphorylated by S-phase-specific thymidine kinase 1, 3'-deoxy-3'-[18F]fluorothymidine (18F-FLT) is trapped intracellularly by entering the salvage pathway of DNA synthesis without incorporation into DNA. 18F-FLT serves a marker of tumor cell proliferation for imaging with positron emission tomography (PET); as a marker of proliferation rather than metabolism, it is more specific to tumor tissue than 2-deoxy-2-[18F] fluoro-D-glucose (18F-FDG).

(Fluorothymidine F-18, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called limb-salvage surgery.

(Limb-sparing surgery, NCI Dictionary)

The fact that a coastguard was the first on board may save some complications, later on, in the Admiralty Court; for coastguards cannot claim the salvage which is the right of the first civilian entering on a derelict.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)