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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" Antonym: danger.

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

... at the time, and as he was extremely anxious about the personal safety of the President, he reported every day regularly at the White House. Mr. Lincoln invited General Grant and his wife to accompany him and Mrs. Lincoln to the theatre on the night of the assassination, and the general accepted, but while they were talking he received a note ...

— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure

... where it produces freely, it is without an equal in all the United States. It is highly relished by all kinds of farm animals, not excluding rabbits and goats, and when fed judiciously may be fed in this form with perfect safety. Its high value in producing such food rests on its productiveness, its high palatability and the abundant nutrition which it contains. As a hay crop, it is greatly prized. Even swine may be wintered in a large measure ...

— Clovers and How to Grow Them • Thomas Shaw

... up in the night, without waiting even for the morning. He took his wife and her baby, and quietly and quickly went with them down to Egypt, which was on the southwest of Judea. There they all stayed in safety, as long as the wicked king Herod lived, ...

— The Wonder Book of Bible Stories • Compiled by Logan Marshall

... impression produced upon the Christian world by this remorseless foe of heresy, this champion of the faith who dealt in butcheries and burnings. S. Francis taught love; S. Dominic taught wrath: and both, perhaps, were needed for the safety of the mediaeval Church—the one by resuscitating the spirit of the Gospels, the other by resisting the intrusion of alien ideals ere the time for their triumph had arrived. What the painters of ...

— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds

... me," he went on, beating lather into me as he spoke, "I wouldn't let one of them things near my face: No, sir: There ain't no safety in them. They tear the hide clean off you—just rake the hair right out by the follicles," as he said this he was illustrating his meaning with jabs of his razor,—"them things just cut a man's face all to pieces," he jabbed ...

— Behind the Beyond - and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge • Stephen Leacock

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