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safe

English

Etymology

From Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (safe), from Latin salvus (whole, safe), from Proto-Indo-European *solh?- (whole, every).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: s?f, IPA(key): /se?f/
  • Rhymes: -e?f
  • Hyphenation: safe

Adjective

safe (comparative safer or more safe, superlative safest or most safe)

  1. Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
  2. Free from risk.
    Synonyms: riskless, harmless
    Antonyms: harmful, dangerous
  3. Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
  4. (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.
  5. Properly secured.
    Synonym: secure
    Hyponyms: binary-safe, fail-safe, thread-safe, type-safe
  6. (used after a noun, often forming a compound) Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.
  7. (Britain, slang) Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.
    Synonyms: wicked, cool; see also Thesaurus:awesome
  8. (slang) Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.
    Synonyms: easy-going, merciful, tolerant, lenient
    Antonyms: strict, harsh, intolerant
  9. Reliable; trusty.
    Synonym: trustworthy
  10. Cautious.
  11. (programming) Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.

Antonyms

  • unsafe

Translations

Noun

safe (plural safes)

  1. A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
  2. (slang) A condom.
    • 1999, Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, Delta (1999), ?ISBN, page 328:
      She'd better have an arsenal of Trojans in her purse just in case he wasn't carrying a safe in his back pocket.
  3. (dated) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
  4. (dated, colloquial) A safety bicycle.

Synonyms

  • (box for storing valuables): coffer, lockbox, strongbox
  • (condom): see also Thesaurus:condom.

Hyponyms

  • failsafe

Translations

Verb

safe (third-person singular simple present safes, present participle safing, simple past and past participle safed)

  1. (transitive) To make something safe.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • better safe than sorry
  • Coolgardie safe

See also

  • save
  • safety

References

  • safe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

  • safe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • safe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • safe at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • EFAs, FAEs, faes

Hausa

Adverb

s?fe

  1. in the morning

Middle English

Adjective

safe

  1. Alternative form of sauf

Preposition

safe

  1. Alternative form of sauf

Conjunction

safe

  1. Alternative form of sauf

Portuguese

Verb

safe

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of safar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of safar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of safar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of safar

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diplomatic

English

Alternative forms

  • diplomatical (dated)
  • diplomatick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French diplomatique, equal to diplomat +? -ic.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?d?pl??mæt?k/

Adjective

diplomatic (comparative more diplomatic, superlative most diplomatic)

  1. Concerning the relationships between the governments of countries.
    She spent thirty years working for Canada's diplomatic service.
    Albania immediately severed diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.
  2. Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments.
    Thoughtful corrections can be diplomatic as well as instructional.
  3. describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus
    • Whereas a diplomatic edition uses as its base text a single, "best" manuscript, to which other textual evidence is collated and organized into an apparatus, a critical text of the LXX/OG [= Septuagint or Old Greek] may be described as a collection of the oldest recoverable texts, carefully restored book by book (or section by section), aiming at achieving the closest approximation to the original translations (from Hebrew or Aramaic) or compositions (in Greek), systematically reconstructed from the widest array of relevant textual data (including controlled conjecture). The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Critical Editions of Septuagint/Old Greek Texts.
  4. Relating to diplomatics, or the study of old texts; paleographic.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

diplomatic (uncountable)

  1. The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.
    • 1983, Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, Studies in English legal history (page 151)
      In its broadest aspect, the subject-matter of diplomatic is the relation between documents and facts.

Ladin

Adjective

diplomatic m pl

  1. plural of diplomatich

Occitan

Adjective

diplomatic m (feminine singular diplomatica, masculine plural diplomatics, feminine plural diplomaticas)

  1. diplomatic

Related terms

  • diplomacia
  • diplomata

Romanian

Etymology

From French diplomatique, from Latin diplomaticus.

Adjective

diplomatic m or n (feminine singular diplomatic?, masculine plural diplomatici, feminine and neuter plural diplomatice)

  1. diplomatic

Declension

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