Safety

5 definitions found

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

  Safety \Safe"ty\, n. [Cf. F. sauvet['e].]
     1. The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger
        or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
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              Up led by thee,


              Into the heaven I have presumed,
              An earthly guest . . . With like safety guided down,
              Return me to my native element.       --Milton.
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     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.
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              Would there were any safety in thy sex,
              That I might put a thousand sorrows off,
              And credit thy repentance!            --Beau. & Fl.
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     3. Preservation from escape; close custody.
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              Imprison him, . . .
              Deliver him to safety; and return.    --Shak.
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     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 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.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
  
     5. Short for {Safety bicycle}. [archaic]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     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]
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  safety
       n 1: 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" [ant: {danger}]
       2: a safe place; "He ran to safety" [syn: {refuge}]
       3: a device designed to prevent injury [syn: {guard}, {safety
          device}]
       4: (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such
          a way that the batter reaches base safely [syn: {base hit},
           {bingle}]
       5: contraceptive device consisting of a thin rubber or latex
          sheath worn over the penis during intercourse [syn: {condom},
           {rubber}, {safe}, {prophylactic}]
       6: a score in American football; a player is tackled behind his
          own goal line

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

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "safety":
     aegis, arm guard, assurance, backstop, buffer, bulwark, bumper,
     contraceptive, copyright, cover, crash helmet, cushion, dashboard,
     defense, dodger, eye, face mask, fender, finger guard, foot guard,
     fuse, goggles, governor, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail,
     hard hat, helmet, impregnability, insulation, interlock,
     inviolability, invulnerability, knee guard, knuckle guard,
     laminated glass, lee, life preserver, lifeline,
     lightning conductor, lightning rod, mask, mudguard, nose guard,
     pad, padding, palladium, patent, pilot, preservation, preventive,
     prophylactic, protection, protective clothing, protective custody,
     protective umbrella, refuge, safeguard, safekeeping, safeness,
     safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes,
     safety switch, safety valve, sanctuary, screen, seat belt,
     security, shade, shadow, shelter, shield, shin guard, sun helmet,
     umbrella, watchful eye, windscreen, windshield
  
  

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

  safety
       
          See {safe}, {safety-critical system}.
       
       

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  SAFETY-:CLUTCH:, n.  A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent
  the fall of an elevator, or cage, in case of an accident to the
  hoisting apparatus.
  
      Once I seen a human ruin
          In an elevator-well,
      And his members was bestrewin'
          All the place where he had fell.
  
      And I says, apostrophisin'
          That uncommon woful wreck:
      "Your position's so surprisin'
          That I tremble for your neck!"
  
      Then that ruin, smilin' sadly
          And impressive, up and spoke:
      "Well, I wouldn't tremble badly,
          For it's been a fortnight broke."
  
      Then, for further comprehension
          Of his attitude, he begs
      I will focus my attention
          On his various arms and legs --
  
      How they all are contumacious;
          Where they each, respective, lie;
      How one trotter proves ungracious,
          T'other one an _alibi_.
  
      These particulars is mentioned
          For to show his dismal state,
      Which I wasn't first intentioned
          To specifical relate.
  
      None is worser to be dreaded
          That I ever have heard tell
      Than the gent's who there was spreaded
          In that elevator-well.
  
      Now this tale is allegoric --
          It is figurative all,
      For the well is metaphoric
          And the feller didn't fall.
  
      I opine it isn't moral
          For a writer-man to cheat,
      And despise to wear a laurel
          As was gotten by deceit.
  
      For 'tis Politics intended
          By the elevator, mind,
      It will boost a person splendid
          If his talent is the kind.
  
      Col. Bryan had the talent
          (For the busted man is him)
      And it shot him up right gallant
          Till his head begun to swim.
  
      Then the rope it broke above him
          And he painful come to earth
      Where there's nobody to love him
          For his detrimented worth.
  
      Though he's livin' none would know him,
          Or at leastwise not as such.
      Moral of this woful poem:
          Frequent oil your safety-clutch.
                                                             Porfer Poog