Meaning of safety | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty
2. refuge
3. The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
   countable, uncountable
4. A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation.
   countable, uncountable
5. A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation
6. Preservation from escape; close custody.
   countable, uncountable
7. Preservation from escape; close custody
8. first-person singular present indicative of refugiar
9. 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.
   countable, uncountable
10. 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
11. 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.
    countable, uncountable
12. A safety squeeze.
    countable, uncountable
13. A safety shot or sequence of such shots.
    countable, uncountable
14. A safety bicycle.
    countable, dated, uncountable

Equivalents

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!”

“Be sure that the safety is set before proceeding.”

“[…] imprison him, […] / Deliver him to safety; and return,”

“He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety.”

“The free safety made a game-saving tackle on the runner who had broken past the linebackers.”

“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.”

“That was a poor safety from Higgins.”

“After thirty minutes of safety, Selby finally potted a red, to ironic cheers.”

“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.”

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