different between safety vs healful

English

Etymology

From Old French sauveté, from earlier salvetet, from Medieval Latin salvitas, salvitatem, from Latin salvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?fti/

Noun

safety (countable and uncountable, plural safeties)

1. The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.

   If you push it to the limit, safety is not guaranteed.
2. (mechanics) A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.

   Be sure that the safety is set before proceeding.

3. (American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team.

   He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety.

4. (American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.

   The free safety made a game-saving tackle on the runner who had broken past the linebackers.

5. (baseball) A safety squeeze.
   • 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Time Life Books, 1966, p. 225,^[1]

     Boy wondered about that bunt. He had a notion Fowler would commit himself soon because time was on the go. But Fowler didn’t, making it another sweep of three Pirates. He had thus far given up only two safeties.

6. Preservation from escape; close custody.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, Scene 2^[2]

     […] imprison him, […] / Deliver him to safety; and return,

7. (dated) A safety bicycle.
   • 1897, American Architect and Architecture (volumes 57-58, page 51)

     Many wheelmen and wheelwomen, riding safeties, tandems and tricycles, stopped there during the evening and we had good opportunity for comparing American and English bicycles […]

Antonyms

• danger

Derived terms

Related terms

• safe

Translations

See also

• security
• secure

Verb

safety (third-person singular simple present safeties, present participle safetying, simple past and past participle safetied)

1. (transitive) To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
2. to secure a firing pin, as in guns, to keep the gun from firing
   • 2011 Time Crime, page 92

     Time went back to normal for him; he safetied his own weapon and dropped it, jumping forward.

   • 2012 Blowout, page 343

     Osborne lay propped up on one elbow, his pistol cocked, his aim wavering in the general direction the man had gone. Finally he safetied it, stuffed it in the holster on his right hip, and reached for his cell phone in his jacket pocket. But it was gone.

English

Etymology

From Middle English heeleful, heleful, equivalent to heal (“health, well-being”) +? -ful. Compare healless.

Adjective

healful (comparative more healful, superlative most healful)

1. Tending or serving to heal; health-promoting; healing.

   healful remedies

   • 2008, Bernardo N. De Luca, Mind-Body and Relaxation Research Focus

     As for psychogenic death, this will be the case when three supplementary, in this case, healful conditions are fulfilled: […]

2. Full of health or safety; healthy; whole; sound; safe.
   • 1913, Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green, The American federationist

     The public conscience demands that they work under healful conditions, with ample light, without overspceding, and with the same provisions for their safety at their work that the employer would desire for himself were he so employed.

   • 1957, Ray C. Petry, Late medieval mysticism

     And, therefore, what is more healful than the sweetness of this sight, or what softer thing may be felt?

3. Affording health or salvation.
   • 1844, John Foxe, George Townsend, The acts and monuments of John Foxe

     […] since Christ will not fail to minister, himself, all lawful and healful sacraments, and necessary at all time, and especially at the end, […]