 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
safe
adjective
1: free from danger or the risk of harm; "a safe trip"; "you
will be safe here"; "a safe place"; "a safe bet" [ant:
{dangerous}]
2: of an undertaking
3: having reached a base without being put out; "the runner was
called safe when the baseman dropped the ball" [syn: {safe(p)}]
[ant: {out(p)}]
4: financially sound; "a good investment"; "a secure
investment" [syn: {dependable}, {good}, {secure}]
5: in safekeeping; "your secret is safe with me"
noun
1: strongbox where valuables can be kept safe
2: a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing
provisions from pests
3: contraceptive device consisting of a thin rubber or latex
sheath worn over the penis during intercourse [syn: {condom},
{rubber}, {safety}, {prophylactic}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Safe \Safe\, noun
A place for keeping things in safety. Specifically:
(a) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of
steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for
containing money, valuable papers, or the like.
(b) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing
provisions from noxious animals or insects.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Safe \Safe\, adjective [Compar. {Safer}; superl. {Safest}.] [OE. sauf,
F. sauf, fr. L. salvus, akin to salus health, welfare,
safety. Cf. {Salute}, {Salvation}, {Sage} a plant, {Save},
{Salvo} an exception.]
1. Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened
by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as,
safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes. ''And
ye dwelled safe.'' --1 Sam. xii. 11.
They escaped all safe to land. --Acts xxvii.
44.
Established in a safe, unenvied throne. --Milton.
2. Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to
danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not
dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc. ''The
man of safe discretion.'' --Shak.
The King of heaven hath doomed
This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat.
--Milton.
3. Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure
care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.
But Banquo's safe?
Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides. --Shak.
{Safe hit} (Baseball), a hit which enables the batter to get
to first base even if no error is made by the other side.
{safe house}, a residence where a person in hiding from the
authorities or other persons may stay without being
discovered.
Syn: Secure; unendangered; sure.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Safe \Safe\, verb (used with an object)
To render safe; to make right. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "safe":
Fort Knox, OK, acceptable, all right, allowable, appropriate,
armed, bank, bona fide, bursary, calculating, canny, careful,
cash register, cashbox, cautious, chary, chest, circumspect,
cloaked, coffer, coin box, conservative, considerate, copyrighted,
correct, covered, crypt, defended, deliberate, dependable,
depository, discreet, exchequer, fisc, gingerly, gold depository,
guarded, guarding, harmless, healthy, heedful, hesitant, immune,
immunized, impregnable, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, insured,
intact, inviolable, invulnerable, judicious, justifiable,
justified, leaving out nothing, locker, mindful, money chest,
noncommittal, okay, on guard, overlooking no possibility, patented,
pawky, penny bank, permissible, piggy bank, policed, politic,
pork barrel, proper, protected, protecting, prudent, public crib,
public till, public treasury, public trough, regardful, reliable,
repository, right, riskless, safe and sound, safe-deposit box,
safeguarded, safeguarding, safely, satisfactory, scatheless,
screened, secure, secured, securely, sheltered, sheltering,
shielded, shielding, slow to act, solid, sound, storehouse,
strong room, strongbox, subtreasury, suitable, sure, tentative,
thorough, till, timely, treasure-house, treasury, tried and true,
unadventurous, unassailable, uncommunicative, undamaged, undaring,
unenterprising, unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, uninjurious,
unpolluted, unprecipitate, unscathed, unthreatened, untouched,
vault, wary, whole, wholesome
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
safe
A safe program analysis is one which will not reach invalid
conclusions about the behaviour of the program. This may
involve making safe approximations to properties of parts of
the program. A safe approximation is one which gives less
information.
For example, strictness analysis aims to answer the question
"will this function evaluate its argument"?. The two possible
results are "definitely" and "don't know". A safe
approximation for "definitely" is "don't know". The two
possible results correspond to the two sets: "the set of all
functions which evaluate their argument" and "all functions".
A set can be safely approximated by another which contains it.
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
SAFE
Security And Freedom through Encryption [law] (USA, cryptography)
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