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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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expedient

English

Etymology

From Middle English expedient, from Old French expedient, from Latin expediens (stem expedient-), present participle of expedire (to bring forward, to dispatch, to expedite; impers. to be profitable, serviceable, advantageous, expedient), from ex (out) + p?s (foot, hoof).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k?spi?di.?nt/

Adjective

expedient (comparative more expedient, superlative most expedient)

  1. Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.
    • a. 1863, Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms
      Nothing but the right can ever be the expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.
  2. Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
  3. Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
  4. (obsolete) Expeditious, quick, rapid.
    • a 1623, Shakespeare, King John, Act II, scene i, lines 57–61:
      the adverse winds / Whose leisure I have stay'd, have given him time / To land his legions all as soon as I; / His marches are expedient to this town / His forces strong, his soldiers confident.

Synonyms

  • advisable, desirable, judicious, politic, prudent, tactical, wise

Related terms

Translations

Noun

expedient (plural expedients)

  1. A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
    • 1906, O. Henry, The Green Door:
      He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 709:
      Depressingly, [...] the expedient of importing African slaves was in part meant to protect the native American population from exploitation.

Translations

Further reading

  • expedient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • expedient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • expedient at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “expedient”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin expedi?ns.

Adjective

expedient (masculine and feminine plural expedients)

  1. expedient, convenient

Noun

expedient m (plural expedients)

  1. file, record, dossier

Derived terms

  • expedientar

Further reading

  • “expedient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Verb

expedient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of expedi?

Romanian

Etymology

From French expédient.

Noun

expedient n (plural expediente)

  1. expedient

Declension

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