Safety

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The condition of being safe; freedom from danger, risk, or injury.
  • n. A device designed to prevent accidents, as a lock on a firearm preventing accidental firing.
  • n. Football A play in which a member of the offensive team downs the ball, willingly or unwillingly, behind his own goal line, resulting in two points for the defensive team.
  • n. Football One of two defensive backs; a safetyman.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
  • n. A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.
  • n. An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or steps out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points for the opposite team.
  • n. 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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. the act or result of a ball-carrier on the offensive team being tackled behind his own goal line, or the downing of a ball behind the offensive team's own goal line when it had been carried or propelled behind that goal line by a player on the offensive tream; such a play causes a score of two points to be awarded to the defensive team; -- it is distinguished from touchback, when the ball is downed behind the goal after being propelled there or last touched by a player of the defending team. See Touchdown. Same as Safety touchdown, below.
  • n. Short for Safety bicycle.
  • n. a switch on a firearm that locks the trigger and prevents the firearm from being discharged unintentionally; -- also called safety catch, safety lock, or lock.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Immunity from harm or danger; preservation or freedom from injury, loss, or hurt.
  • n. An unharmed or uninjured state or condition: as, to escape in safety.
  • n. Freedom from risk or possible damage or hurt; safeness.
  • n. A safeguard.
  • n. Safe-keeping; close custody.
  • n. A safety-bicycle.
  • n. In foot-ball, a safety touch-down.
  • n. Defensive strategy at billiards. In America, since 1879, deliberate resort to misses has been restricted by limiting such misses to three in succession, and contingently to two.
  • n. In base-ball, a safe hit.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a score in American football; a player is tackled behind his own goal line
  • n. a device designed to prevent injury or accidents
  • n. (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely
  • n. contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
  • n. the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions
  • n. a safe place
    • Antonym
    danger   
    Verb Form
    safeties   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    score    preventative    birth control device    preventive    contraceptive device    prophylactic device    contraceptive   
    Variant
    safety bicycle    safety catch    safety lock    lock   
    Form
    safety net    free safety    strong safety    safety pin   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    safeness   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    biosafety   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    security    health    control    comfort    maintenance    freedom    welfare    strength    success    efficiency   
     
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