safety

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “If you push it to the limit, safety is not guaranteed.”

2. isim A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation.

   “Be sure that the safety is set before proceeding.”

3. isim Preservation from escape; close custody.

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

4. isim 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.”

5. isim 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.”

6. isim A safety squeeze.

   “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.”

7. isim A safety shot or sequence of such shots.

   “That was a poor safety from Higgins.”

8. isim A safety bicycle.

   “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 […]”

9. fiil To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
10. fiil to secure a firing pin, as in guns, to keep the gun from firing

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