Safety
['seɪftɪ] or ['sefti]
Definition
(noun.) a score in American football; a player is tackled behind his own goal line.
(noun.) a safe place; 'He ran to safety'.
(noun.) the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions; 'insure the safety of the children'; 'the reciprocal of safety is risk'.
Inputed by Carter--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
(n.) Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc.
(n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.
(n.) Same as Safety touchdown, below.
Editor: Olivia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Security.
Editor: Priscilla
Examples
- Safety clutches are numerous, by which the machine is quickly and automatically stopped by the action of electro-magnets should a workman or other obstruction be caught in the machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And from the safety of his overhanging limb the ape-child sent back the fearsome answer of his kind. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Then came improved weighted and other safety valves to regulate and control this pressure. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We compromise her safety, perhaps, by staying here. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- If after that you are taken, you will then be a prize; but now you are only a stranger, and have a stranger's right to safety and protection. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She determined to call upon them and seek safety in numbers. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Thus they obtained air and proper ventilation without fear of lessening the safety of their cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- She put a white gown on me and pinned it at the neck in back with a safety pin. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Why not secrete her there until I could return and fetch her away in safety and for ever from this awful place. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Adverting to other advantages derived from railway locomotion, Mr. Stephenson noticed the comparative safety of that mode of travelling. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The contraction of the frog's legs may with considerable safety be said to be caused by these mechanical vibrations being transmitted through the conducting wires. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For safety's sake, all oily cloths should be burned or kept in metal vessels. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They wanted not safety, but triumph, not world welfare, but world empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If I am to fight our cause with the Count, strong in the consciousness of Laura's safety, I must fight it for my Wife. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Not that we would have endangered his safety by any tremendous weather--but only by a steady contrary wind, or a calm. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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