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safety
/ˈseɪfti/
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What does safety mean?
noun
- The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
- A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation.
- Preservation from escape; close custody.
More meanings (7)
noun
- An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team.
- Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
- A safety squeeze.
- A safety shot or sequence of such shots.
- (dated) A safety bicycle.
verb
- To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
- to secure a firing pin, as in guns, to keep the gun from firing
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈseɪfti/
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See this word in context.
The ingredients which constitute safety in the repub lican sense are, first, a due dependence on the people, secondly, a due responsibility.
Why not secrete her there until I could return and fetch her away in safety and for ever from this awful place.
More book examples (3)
Back you shall not to the house, unless you undertake that with me which with as much safety you might answer him.
“Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.”
He explained to me that the comparative safety of Moreau and himself was due to the limited mental scope of these monsters.