salvage

noun

/ˈsælvɪd͡ʒ//ˈsæl.vɪdʒ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish salvaje, from Catalan salvatge, from Late Latin *salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”). Confused false friends; English salvage and Tagalog salbahe (“mischievous, naughty”).

derived from silvāticus — “wild”
derived from *salvāticus✻
derived from salvatge
borrowed from salvaje

Definitions

The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
The compensation paid to the rescuers.
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1. The money from the sale of rescued goods.
2. 5
  The similar rescue of property liable to loss
  The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
  - [...] the debris was hurled down the hillside on to the line and swept the engine off the track and into the sea; the engine in question, ex-Cambrian 0-6-0 No. 874, was not considered to be worth salvage, and was abandoned.
3. The process of acquiring, dismantling, and stocking the pieces of old property such as…
  The process of acquiring, dismantling, and stocking the pieces of old property such as ships, houses, and vehicles, so that they can be sold on to be reused or recycled.
4. 7
  Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
  - salvage cars auction
5. 8
  To rescue.
  - Robin van Persie looked to have secured the points for the Gunners with a fine goal from Theo Walcott's through ball. But Perisic dipped a sublime 20-yard shot home to salvage a draw.
6. 9
  To modify (a false proposition) to create a true proposition.
  - Prove or disprove, and salvage if possible.
7. To put to use.
8. To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
9. 12
  Obsolete spelling of savage.
  - Cornels, and ſalvage Berries of the Wood, / And Roots and Herbs have been my meagre Food.
10. Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
11. To perform summary execution.
12. To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.
13. 16
  A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  - A man in Salvage, N.L., is being called a 'miracle man' by some residents in the community for lifting a vehicle off his son-in-law, but he says he's no hero.
  - Cecil Stuckless was fixing a Jeep in Salvage, Newfoundland with his son-in-law, who was working under the car.

The neighborhood

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Derived

postsalvage, pure salvage, salvage grocery, salvage logging, salvage therapy, salvage title, salvage yard, resalvage, salvageability, salvageable, salvagable, salvagee, salvager, unsalvaged

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at salvage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at salvage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at salvage

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA