Definition of: safety

(sāf′tē) noun plural ·ties
1. The state or condition of freedom from danger or risk.
2. Freedom from injury.
3. A device or catch designed as a safeguard, as in a firearm.
4. In football, the act or play of touching the ball to the ground behind the player's own goal line when the impetus which sent the ball over the goal line was given to it by one of his own side: also safe′ty-touch′down′ (-tuch′doun′)
5. In baseball, a safe hit.