safety
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
baseball
engineering
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
snooker
sports
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English savete, from Old French sauveté, from earlier salvetet, from Medieval Latin salvitās, salvitātem, from Latin salvus.
Inflected forms:
form: safeties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: safeties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: safetying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: safetied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: safetied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If you push it to the limit, safety is not guaranteed.
He managed to reach the border and escape to safety.
Oh, oh! “Go to safety”! Why didn’t I think of that⁉ Here I am in danger when, really, I could simply be going to safety! I shouldn’t have wasted your time by calling in the first place!
gloss: A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Be sure that the safety is set before proceeding.
gloss: Preservation from escape; close custody.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] imprison him, […] / Deliver him to safety; and return,
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The free safety made a game-saving tackle on the runner who had broken past the linebackers.
gloss: A safety squeeze.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Boy wondered about that bunt. He had a notion Fowler would commit himself soon because time was on the go. But Fowler didn’t, making it another sweep of three Pirates. He had thus far given up only two safeties.
gloss: A safety shot or sequence of such shots.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That was a poor safety from Higgins.
After thirty minutes of safety, Selby finally potted a red, to ironic cheers.
gloss: A safety bicycle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: Many wheelmen and wheelwomen, riding safeties, tandems and tricycles, stopped there during the evening and we had good opportunity for comparing American and English bicycles […]
There are cyclists, like Mr. F. T. Bidlake, who prefer a tricycle to a safety, and to such men a long ride on a tricycle is no more fatiguing than a safety bicycle ride of the same distance.
gloss: To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: to secure a firing pin, as in guns, to keep the gun from firing
pos: verb
examples: Time went back to normal for him; he safetied his own weapon and dropped it, jumping forward.
Osborne lay propped up on one elbow, his pistol cocked, his aim wavering in the general direction the man had gone. Finally he safetied it, stuffed it in the holster on his right hip, and reached for his cell phone in his jacket pocket. But it was gone.
Related words: safe
security
secure
Derived words: auto safety seat
biosafety
car safety seat
certified safety professional
child safety seat
cybersafety
elf and safety
elfin safety
e-safety
fire safety
free safety
health and safety
infant safety seat
insafety
margin of safety
memory safety
miners safety candlestick
nanosafety
occupational health and safety
occupational safety and health
public safety announcement
Ramsbottom safety valve
range safety
range safety officer
range safety system
safetify
safetiness
safety arch
safety area
safety belt
safety bicycle
safety boot
safety buoy
safety cage
safety call
safety car
safety card
safety catch
safety chain
safety clause
safety coffin
safety-conscious
safety-critical
safety curtain
safety cushion
safety deposit
safety-deposit box
safety drill
safety factor
safety first
safety fuse
safety glass
safety glasses
safety hammer
safety helmet
safety hoist
safety in numbers
safety island
safetyism
safety lamp
safety lock
safety match
safety measures
safety mechanism
safety net
safety of shadows
safety orange
safety paper
safety pin
safety plug
safety razor
safety reflector
safety rein
safety school
safety scissors
safety seat
safety shoe
safety shorts
safety spot
safety squat
safety squeeze
safety squints
safety stock
safety stop
safety thongs
safety tube
safety valve
safety-valve
safety yellow
social safety net
strong safety
supersafety
there is safety in numbers
transportation safety board
transport safety board
trust and safety
type safety
unsafety
virtual safety car
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: takapuolustaja
lang: German
word: Safety