safe
//ˈseɪ̯f//
Forms
- Comparative
- safer
- Superlative
- safest
- Plural
- safes
- present (v1)
- safe
- past (v2)
- safed
- past participle (v3)
- safed
- present participle
- safing
- 3rd person singular
- safes
Definitions
1.Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
- You’ll be safe from the storm here in the cabin.
2.Free from risk.
- Probably the safest and easiest 'tool' that you can use to get off your rusty-dusty and follow your choice of exercise routine.
- It’s safe to eat this berry.
- In fact, in presenting the home life of these people I have been at some pains to avoid the extreme of privation, taking the cases just as they came to hand on the safer middle-ground of average earnings.
3.Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
- We have to find a safe spot, where we can hide out until this is over.
4.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.
- The pitcher attempted to pick off the runner at first, but he was safe.
1.A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
- The small-timers, as he put it, kept their currency in their homes, in safes, in false ceilings, under beds. When necessary, our tax people know where to look. The big-timers, however, use Swiss banks.
2.A condom.(slang)
- 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.A safety bicycle.(colloquial)
1.To make something safe.
- “It just trails behind the pylon until I land, then Cramer removes it when he safes the rocket pods. No evidence of anything when I taxi back inside the compound.”
Frequency
Overall
Common· #916
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Italic *salwos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, every”).
Displaced Old English sicor (“secure, sure”).