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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)
- Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
- Free from risk.
- Synonyms: riskless, harmless
- Antonyms: harmful, dangerous
- 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.
- Properly secured.
- Synonym: secure
- Hyponyms: binary-safe, fail-safe, thread-safe, type-safe
- (used after a noun, often forming a compound) Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.
- (Britain, slang) Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.
- Synonyms: wicked, cool; see also Thesaurus:awesome
- (slang) Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.
- Synonyms: easy-going, merciful, tolerant, lenient
- Antonyms: strict, harsh, intolerant
- Reliable; trusty.
- Synonym: trustworthy
- Cautious.
- (programming) Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.
Antonyms
- unsafe
Translations
Noun
safe (plural safes)
- A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
- (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.
- 1999, Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, Delta (1999), ?ISBN, page 328:
- (dated) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
- (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)
- (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
- in the morning
Middle English
Adjective
safe
- Alternative form of sauf
Preposition
safe
- Alternative form of sauf
Conjunction
safe
- Alternative form of sauf
Portuguese
Verb
safe
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of safar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of safar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of safar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of safar
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first-rate
English
Noun
first-rate (plural first-rates)
- (military, nautical, historical) A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks
Adjective
first-rate
- (military, nautical, historical) Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.
- (by extension) Exceptionally good.
- 1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature
- Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.
- 1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature
Translations
See also
- second-rate
- third-rate
- fourth-rate
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