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1: a device designed to prevent injury [syn: {guard}, {safety}]

1: the ratio of the breaking stress of a structure to the estimated maximum stress in ordinary use [syn: {factor of safety}]

1: feature of an artifact that is added to insure a user's safety

1: fuse consisting of a tube or cord filled or saturated with combustible matter

1: glass made with plates of plastic or resin or other material between two sheets of glass to prevent shattering [syn: {laminated glass}, {shatterproof glass}]

1: belt attaching you to some object as a restraint in order to prevent you from getting hurt [syn: {safety belt}, {life belt}]

1: a lightweight protective helmet (plastic or metal) worn by construction workers [syn: {hard hat}, {tin hat}]

1: an island area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded; provides safe area for pedestrians [syn: {traffic island}, {safety isle}, {safety zone}]

1: an island area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded; provides safe area for pedestrians [syn: {traffic island}, {safety island}, {safety zone}]

1: an oil lamp that will not ignite flammable gases (methane) [syn: {Davy lamp}]

1: guard consisting of a locking device that prevents a weapon from being fired [syn: {safety catch}] 2: a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate [syn: {safety bolt}]

1: an index indicating the amount beyond the minimum necessary; "in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress" [syn: {margin of safety}, {margin of ...

1: a paper match that strikes only on a specially prepared surface [syn: {book matches}]

1: a guarantee of professional or financial security 2: a large strong net to catch circus acrobats who fall or jump from a trapeze

1: supplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening [syn: {locknut}]

1: a pin in the form of a clasp; has a guard so the point of the pin will not stick the user

1: a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety [syn: {guardrail}]

1: a razor with a guard to prevent deep cuts in the skin

1: the runner on third base waits to start home until the batter has bunted successfully [syn: {safety squeeze play}]

1: the runner on third base waits to start home until the batter has bunted successfully [syn: {safety squeeze}]

1: a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level [syn: {relief valve}, {escape valve}, {escape cock}, {e...

1: an island area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded; provides safe area for pedestrians [syn: {traffic island}, {safety island}, {safety isle}]

1: safe for the storage of valuables; "kept the deed in his safe-deposit box at the bank" [syn: {safe-deposit}] n : a fireproof metal strongbox (usually in a bank) for storing valuables [syn: {safe-de...

1: providing or ensuring safety

1: thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil [syn: {false saffron}, {Carthamus tinctorius}]

1: oil from safflower seeds used as food as well as in medicines and paints 2: oil from seeds of the safflower plant

1: seed of the safflower

1: any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes [syn: {safranine}, {safranin}]

1: Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food [syn: {saffron crocus}, {Crocus sativus}] 2: dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffr...

1: Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food [syn: {saffron}, {Crocus sativus}]

1: any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes [syn: {safranine}, {saffranine}]

1: any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes [syn: {safranin}, {saffranine}]

1: a shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat" [syn: {droop}] v 1: droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness [syn: {droop}, {swag}, {flag}] 2: cause to sag; "Th...

1: cause to sag; "The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably" [syn: {sag}]

1: a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that res...

1: acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insig...

1: in a shrewd manner; "he invested his fortune astutely" [syn: {astutely}, {shrewdly}, {sapiently}]

1: ability to make good judgments [syn: {sagacity}, {judgment}, {judgement}, {discernment}] 2: the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating [syn: {judiciousness}, {sagacity}]

1: ability to make good judgments [syn: {sagaciousness}, {judgment}, {judgement}, {discernment}] 2: the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating [syn: {judiciousness}, {sagaciousness...

1: a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief) [syn: {sachem}]

1: having wisdom that comes with age and experience 2: of the gray-green color of sage leaves [syn: {sage-green}] n 1: a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdo...

1: any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium [syn: {sagebrush}]

1: the color of sage leaves

1: large grouse of sagebrush regions of North America [syn: {sage hen}, {Centrocercus urophasianus}]

1: large grouse of sagebrush regions of North America [syn: {sage grouse}, {Centrocercus urophasianus}]

1: willow shrub of dry places in the eastern United States having long narrow leaves canescent beneath [syn: {dwarf gray willow}, {Salix tristis}] 2: North American shrub with whitish canescent leaves...

1: of the gray-green color of sage leaves [syn: {sage}]

1: any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium [syn: {sage brush}]

1: small early-flowering buttercup with shiny yellow flowers of western North America [syn: {Ranunculus glaberrimus}]

1: a ground dweller that prefers open ground and scattered low bushes; of United States west between Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains [syn: {Sceloporus graciosus}]

1: mariposa having loose clusters of one to three handsome lilac flowers resembling umbels atop stout erect stems; arid northwestern North America east of Cascade Mountains from southern British Colum...

1: a state in the western United States [syn: {Nevada}, {Silver State}, {Battle Born State}, {NV}]

1: in a wise manner; "she acted wisely when she invited her parents" [syn: {wisely}, {with wisdom}, {showing wisdom}] [ant: {foolishly}]

{sag}

{sag}

1: small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions [syn: {genus Sagina}]

1: a town in east central Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron

1: a small constellation in the northern hemisphere between Cygnus and Aquila and crossed by the Milky Way 2: any arrowworm of the genus Sagitta

1: located in a plane that is parallel to the central plane of the sagittal suture

1: the suture uniting the two parietal bones [syn: {interparietal suture}, {sutura sagittalis}]

1: genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers [syn: {genus Sagittaria}]

1: secretary birds [syn: {family Sagittariidae}]

1: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Sagittarius [syn: {Archer}] 2: a large zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between Scorpius and Capricornus 3: the ninth sign of ...

1: large long-legged African bird of prey that feeds on reptiles [syn: {secretary bird}]

1: the ninth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about November 22 to December 21 [syn: {Sagittarius}, {Archer}]

1: of a leaf shape; like an arrow head without flaring base lobes [syn: {sagittiform}, {arrow-shaped}]

1: shaped like an arrow head [syn: {sagittiform leaf}]

1: of a leaf shape; like an arrow head without flaring base lobes [syn: {sagittate}, {arrow-shaped}]

1: shaped like an arrow head [syn: {sagittate-leaf}]

1: powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener

1: showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia area having a crown of much-pinnated fronds with whitish undersides [syn: {silver tree fern}, {black tree fern}, {Cyathea medullaris}]

1: any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago 2: dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago [syn: {Cycas revoluta}]

1: extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit [syn: {sahuaro}, {Ca...

{saguaro}

1: a member of a North American Indian people who lived in Oregon along the Columbia river and its tributaries in Washington and northern Idaho [syn: {Shahaptian}, {Sahaptino}] 2: a Penutian language ...

1: a member of a North American Indian people who lived in Oregon along the Columbia river and its tributaries in Washington and northern Idaho [syn: {Shahaptian}, {Sahaptin}]

1: the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa [syn: {Sahara Desert}]

1: the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa [syn: {Sahara}]

1: of or relating to or located in the Sahara Desert n : a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad

1: formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India; used after the name

1: extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit [syn: {saguaro}, {Ca...

{say}

1: the main city of ancient Phoenicia [syn: {Sidon}]

1: goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis [syn: {Saiga tatarica}]

1: goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis [syn: {saiga}]

1: a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina [syn: {Ho Chi Minh City}]

1: tropical southeast Asian tree with aromatic bark; yields a bark used medicinally [syn: {Cinnamomum loureirii}]

1: a large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel [syn: {canvas}, {canvass}, {sheet}] 2: an ocean trip taken for pleasure [syn: {cruise}] v 1: traverse o...

1: succeed at easily; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course" [syn: {breeze through}, {ace}, {pass with flying colors}, {sweep through}...

1: a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast [syn: {sailing boat}]

1: a strong fabric (such as cotton canvas) used for making sails and tents

1: a saltwater fish with lean flesh 2: large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long sail-like dorsal fin [also: {sailfishes} (pl)]

{sailfish}

1: traveling by boat or ship [syn: {at sea(p)}] n 1: the work of a sailor [syn: {seafaring}, {navigation}] 2: riding in a sailboat 3: the departure of a vessel from a port 4: the activity of flying a ...

1: a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast [syn: {sailboat}]

1: the ship's officer in charge of navigation [syn: {navigator}]

1: a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts [syn: {sailing vessel}]

1: a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts [syn: {sailing ship}]

1: a race between crews of people in yachts [syn: {yacht race}]

1: a maker of sails

1: any member of a ship's crew [syn: {crewman}] 2: a serviceman in the navy [syn: {bluejacket}, {navy man}, {sailor boy}] 3: a stiff straw hat with a flat crown [syn: {boater}, {leghorn}, {Panama}, {P...

1: a serviceman in the navy [syn: {bluejacket}, {navy man}, {sailor}]

1: a cap worn by sailors

1: a boy's ensemble; copied from a sailor's uniform

1: a knot in the rope used to drag a gun carriage [syn: {prolonge knot}]

1: similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States [syn: {pinfish}, {squirrelfish}, {Lagodon rhomboides}] 2: found from Florida to Brazil ...

1: found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico [syn: {sailor's-choice}, {Haemulon parra}]

1: aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces [syn: {glider}] v : fly a plane without an engine [syn: {soar}]

1: the activity of flying a glider [syn: {glide}, {gliding}, {soaring}, {sailing}]

1: squirrel monkeys [syn: {genus Saimiri}]

1: small long-tailed monkey of Central American and South America with greenish fur and black muzzle [syn: {squirrel monkey}]

1: Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods; naturalized in Britain and North America grasslands on calcareous soils; important forage crop and source of honey in Britain [syn:...

1: a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization 2: person of exceptional holiness [syn: {holy man}, {holy person}, {angel}] 3: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one h...

1: a Christian holy day [syn: {January 20}]

1: (Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church a...

1: (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland [syn: {Andrew}, {St. Andrew}, {Saint Andrew the Apostle}]

1: (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland [syn: {Andrew}, {Saint Andrew}, {St. Andrew}]

1: an Italian who was a Benedictine monk; was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109; one of the founders of scholasticism; best known for his proof of the existence of God [syn: {Anselm}, {St. An...

1: any of several inflammatory or gangrenous skin conditions

1: (Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a Church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373) [syn: {Athanasius}, {St. Athana...