Safe

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Safe \Safe\, v. t.
     To render safe; to make right. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Safe \Safe\, n.
     A place for keeping things in safety. Specifically:
     (a) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of
         steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for
         containing money, valuable papers, or the like.
     (b) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing
         provisions from noxious animals or insects.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Safe \Safe\, a. [Compar. {Safer}; superl. {Safest}.] [OE. sauf,
     F. sauf, fr. L. salvus, akin to salus health, welfare,
     safety. Cf. {Salute}, {Salvation}, {Sage} a plant, {Save},
     {Salvo} an exception.]
     1. Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened
        by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as,
        safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes. "And
        ye dwelled safe." --1 Sam. xii. 11.
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              They escaped all safe to land.        --Acts xxvii.
                                                    44.
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              Established in a safe, unenvied throne. --Milton.
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     2. Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to
        danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not
        dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc. "The man
        of safe discretion." --Shak.
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              The King of heaven hath doomed
              This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat.
                                                    --Milton.
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     3. Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure
        care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.
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              But Banquo's safe?
              Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides. --Shak.
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     {Safe hit} (Baseball), a hit which enables the batter to get
        to first base even if no error is made by the other side.
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     Syn: Secure; unendangered; sure.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  safe
       adj 1: free from danger or the risk of harm; "a safe trip"; "you
              will be safe here"; "a safe place"; "a safe bet" [ant:
               {dangerous}]
       2: of an undertaking
       3: having reached a base without being put out; "the runner was
          called safe when the baseman dropped the ball" [syn: {safe(p)}]
          [ant: {out(p)}]
       4: financially sound; "a good investment"; "a secure
          investment" [syn: {dependable}, {good}, {secure}]
       5: in safekeeping; "your secret is safe with me"
       n 1: strongbox where valuables can be kept safe
       2: a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing
          provisions from pests
       3: contraceptive device consisting of a thin rubber or latex
          sheath worn over the penis during intercourse [syn: {condom},
           {rubber}, {safety}, {prophylactic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  135 Moby Thesaurus words for "safe":
     Fort Knox, OK, acceptable, all right, allowable, appropriate,
     armed, bank, bona fide, bursary, calculating, canny, careful,
     cash register, cashbox, cautious, chary, chest, circumspect,
     cloaked, coffer, coin box, conservative, considerate, copyrighted,
     correct, covered, crypt, defended, deliberate, dependable,
     depository, discreet, exchequer, fisc, gingerly, gold depository,
     guarded, guarding, harmless, healthy, heedful, hesitant, immune,
     immunized, impregnable, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, insured,
     intact, inviolable, invulnerable, judicious, justifiable,
     justified, leaving out nothing, locker, mindful, money chest,
     noncommittal, okay, on guard, overlooking no possibility, patented,
     pawky, penny bank, permissible, piggy bank, policed, politic,
     pork barrel, proper, protected, protecting, prudent, public crib,
     public till, public treasury, public trough, regardful, reliable,
     repository, right, riskless, safe and sound, safe-deposit box,
     safeguarded, safeguarding, safely, satisfactory, scatheless,
     screened, secure, secured, securely, sheltered, sheltering,
     shielded, shielding, slow to act, solid, sound, storehouse,
     strong room, strongbox, subtreasury, suitable, sure, tentative,
     thorough, till, timely, treasure-house, treasury, tried and true,
     unadventurous, unassailable, uncommunicative, undamaged, undaring,
     unenterprising, unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, uninjurious,
     unpolluted, unprecipitate, unscathed, unthreatened, untouched,
     vault, wary, whole, wholesome
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SAFE
       Security And Freedom through Encryption [law] (USA, cryptography)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  safe
       
          A safe program analysis is one which will not reach invalid
          conclusions about the behaviour of the program.  This may
          involve making safe approximations to properties of parts of
          the program.  A safe approximation is one which gives less
          information.
       
          For example, strictness analysis aims to answer the question
          "will this function evaluate its argument"?.  The two possible
          results are "definitely" and "don't know".  A safe
          approximation for "definitely" is "don't know".  The two
          possible results correspond to the two sets: "the set of all
          functions which evaluate their argument" and "all functions".
          A set can be safely approximated by another which contains it.