Definition of safety

"safety" in the noun sense

1. safety

the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions

"insure the safety of the children"

"the reciprocal of safety is risk"

2. safety, refuge

a safe place

"He ran to safety"

3. guard, safety, safety device

a device designed to prevent injury or accidents

4. base hit, safety

baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely

5. condom, rubber, safety, safe, prophylactic

contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse

6. safety

a score in American football a player is tackled behind his own goal line

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Quotations for safety

Fearing even safety. [ Virgil ]

Fear is the mother of safety. [ Burke ]

There is always safety in valor. [ Emerson ]

Happy were men if they but understood
There is no safety but in doing good. [ John Fountain ]

The people's safety is the law of God. [ James Otis ]

Patience - in patience there is safety. [ Laboulaye ]

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
And death was safety and great joy to find;
But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]

In her days, every man shall eat in safety.
Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing
The merry song of peace to all his neighbours. [ William Shakespeare ]

The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame. [ Owen Feltham ]

Through danger safety comes, through trouble rest. [ John Marston ]

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. [ William Shakespeare ]

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. [ William Shakespeare ]

The only safety for the conquered is to hope for no safety. [ Virgil ]

Distrust is the mother of safety, but must keep out of sight. [ Proverb ]

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. [ Seneca ]

The good need fear no law; it is his safety, and the bad man's awe. [ Ben Jonson ]

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. [ Horace Mann ]

The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on. (Tears) [ Albert Smith ]

Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage. [ Lavater ]

In saying aye or no, the very safety of our country and the sum of our well-being lies. [ L'Estrange ]

It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty. [ Aughey ]

Adverse fortune seldom spares men of the noblest virtues. No one can with safety expose himself often to dangers. The man who has often escaped is at last caught. [ Seneca ]

When men neglect God, they neglect their own safety; they procure their own ruin; they fly from their own happiness; they pursue their own misery, and make haste to be undone. [ J. Mair ]

Superstition is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do so with safety. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The maxim of Cleobulus, Mediocrity is best, has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. In springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it hears no noise; but the thunderclap which follows, and which I most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. [ Colton ]

safety in Scrabble®

The word safety is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters safety:

SAFETY
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word safety

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safety in Words With Friends™

The word safety is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters safety:

SAFETY
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word safety

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In safety

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Words within the letters of safety

2 letter words in safety (8 words)

3 letter words in safety (17 words)

5 letter words in safety (5 words)

6 letter words in safety (1 word)

safety + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence safety

Words that start with safety (2 words)

Words with safety in them (1 word)

Words that end with safety (4 words)

Word Growth involving safety

Shorter words in safety

safe

Longer words containing safety

biosafety

firesafety

safetying

supersafety