safe
IPA: sˈeɪf
noun
- A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
- (slang) A condom.
- (dated) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
- (dated, colloquial) A safety bicycle.
- An unincorporated community in Maries County, Missouri, United States.
verb
- (transitive) To make something safe.
adjective
- Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
- Free from risk.
- Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
- (baseball) When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.
- (snooker, of an object ball) In a location that renders it difficult to pot.
- Properly secured.
- (used after a noun, often forming a compound) Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.
- (UK, slang) Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.
- (slang) Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.
- Reliable; trusty.
- Cautious.
- (programming) Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.
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Examples of "safe" in Sentences
- "Take her," she said to Mrs. Gale, as she gave her the baby, "keep her safe -- _safe_!"
- Cuz OBL is outside this nation you see so Safer yes, as safe as the President says we are…..safe.
- A common player sign-off in Eve-Online is "fly safe", as in "I must go to bed, *fly safe* everyone."
- That's why the term "safe sex" even came about -- sex is easily the most common way to transmit or "catch" HIV.
- Again there appeared a picture of the room, the window beyond, the mail clerk asleep at his desk, everything as before, except that where the safe had been, _there was a shadowy, half visible safe_, the metal glowing brightly.
- This phrase "be safe" occurs again in verse 28, and again in the last verse of the psalm, where _quam nisi -- salvus esse non poterit_ should be translated _which except a man have believed faithfully and firmly, he cannot be safe_.
- Nebraska safe haven law reveals societal hypocrisy yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Nebraska safe haven law reveals societal hypocrisy'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Officials want to revise the law to limit \'safe haven\' to abandoned newborns one and younger, in line with other states.
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- "Perhaps," Marco had heard Loristan say to him almost severely, once when he had forgotten himself and had stood at salute while his master passed through a broken-down iron gate before an equally broken-down-looking lodging-house -- "perhaps you can force yourself to remember when I tell you that it is not safe -- _it is not safe_!
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