safety
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Noun (6)
- 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”Opposite dangerType of condition, statusKinds security, invulnerability, salvation, biosafety, risklessness
- a safe place“He ran to safety”Synonyms: refugeType of area, countryKinds harborage, harbourage
- a device designed to prevent injury or accidentsSynonyms: guardsafety deviceType of deviceKinds safety catch, fender
- (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safelySynonyms: base hitType of hitKinds homer, double, single, triple
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourseSynonyms: condomrubbersafeprophylacticType of contraceptive, preventive
- a score in American football; a player is tackled behind their own goal lineType of score
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Translations
Noun condition or feeling of being safe
- Spanish
- seguridad
- French
- sécurité
- German
- Sicherheit
- Italian
- sicurezza
- Portuguese
- segurança
- Turkish
- güvenlik
- Russian
- безопа́сность bezopásnostʹ
- Arabic
- سَلَامَة salāma
- Chinese
- 安全 ānquán
- Japanese
- 安全 anzen
28 more languages
- Dutch
- veiligheid
- Polish
- bezpieczeństwo
- Swedish
- säkerhet
- Greek
- ασφάλεια asfáleia
- Korean
- 안전 anjeon
- Indonesian
- keselamatan
- Vietnamese
- an toàn
- Hungarian
- biztonság
- Portuguese (PT)
- segurança
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 安全 ānquán
- Catalan
- seguretat
- Czech
- bezpečnost
- Danish
- sikkerhed
- Esperanto
- sekureco
- Estonian
- ohutus
- Finnish
- turvallisuus
- Georgian
- დაცულობა daculoba
- Hebrew
- בְּטִיחוּת betihut
- Icelandic
- öryggi
- Kurdish
- asayîş
- Latvian
- drošība
- Lithuanian
- saugumas
- Norwegian
- sikkerhet
- Romanian
- securitate
- Scottish Gaelic
- sàbhailteachd
- Slovak
- bezpečnosť
- Slovenian
- varnost
- Swahili
- usalama
Noun mechanism to prevent accidental firing
- Spanish
- seguro
- Italian
- sicura
- Turkish
- emniyet
- Russian
- предохрани́тель predoxranítelʹ
- Chinese
- 保险 bǎoxiǎn
- Polish
- zabezpieczenie
- Greek
- ασφάλεια asfáleia
- Hungarian
- biztosító
- Czech
- pojistka
- Danish
- sikring
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Cf. F. sauveté.
1. The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
Up led by thee, Into the heaven I have presumed, An earthly guest... With like safety guided down, Return me to my native element.— John Milton
2. 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.
Would there were any safety in thy sex, That I might put a thousand sorrows off, And credit thy repentance!— Francis, & Fletcher, John. Beaumont
3. Preservation from escape; close custody.
Imprison him,... Deliver him to safety; and return.— William Shakespeare
4. Amer. Football 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 team; 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.
5. Short for Safety bicycle. archaic
6. 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. archaic
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC, 1913 supplement, GCIDE editors
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
See safe, safety-critical system.