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Safety

noun

The state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions. "The reciprocal of safety is risk"

A safe place. Synonym: refuge.

A device designed to prevent injury or accidents. Synonyms: guard, safety device.

(baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely. Synonym: base hit.

Contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse. Synonyms: condom, prophylactic, rubber, safe.

A score in American football; a player is tackled behind his own goal line.

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"Safety" Quotes from Famous Books

... I'll play my points on him yet, though. I'll play my points!" And the rather vulgar young chronic absentee from Sunday-school retired to a proper distance, and from thence began stoning his benefactor to the latter's perfect safety. ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 25, September 17, 1870 • Various

... wet his hands with milk. This last habit, in addition to being filthy, lessens the keeping power of the milk. The milker should also moisten the parts of the cow which are nearest him, so that dust from the cow's sides may not fall into the milker's pail. For greater cleanliness and safety many ...

— Agriculture for Beginners - Revised Edition • Charles William Burkett

... earth pressures behind a retaining wall. The danger does not lie in making the calculations, but in the confidence which the very making of them begets in their correctness. Based on such confidence, factors of safety are sometimes worked out to ...

— Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design • Edward Godfrey

... how tickled he was to meet up with me, an' then he'd sermonize most doleful about how untasteful it was to commit such a havoc as that in a hotel lobby, especially with a dog what had been trained to have quiet an' refined manners. I finally refused to hold my safety valve down any longer; an' I grabbed him under the arms an' waltzed him over the marble, while Cupid frolicked around us an' Bill kicked me on the shins. I had had too many things happen to me in a small space o' time to be altogether sane, an' it took ...

— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason

... of candles ought to last us quite a while," began the practical Cynthia; "and ten cents more will buy a whole package of safety-matches. And for five cents we can get a candlestick, but we'd better stop at one for the present, or we won't have a cent left between us! Let's get them right now." While they were making their ...

— The Boarded-Up House • Augusta Huiell Seaman

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