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adjective, saf⋅er, saf⋅est, noun | 1. | secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place. |
| 2. | free from hurt, injury, danger, or risk: to arrive safe and sound. |
| 3. | involving little or no risk of mishap, error, etc.: a safe estimate. |
| 4. | dependable or trustworthy: a safe guide. |
| 5. | careful to avoid danger or controversy: a safe player; a safe play. |
| 6. | denied the chance to do harm; in secure custody: a criminal safe in jail. |
| 7. | Baseball.
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| 8. | a steel or iron box or repository for money, jewels, papers, etc. |
| 9. | any receptacle or structure for the storage or preservation of articles: a meat safe. |
| 10. | (in plumbing)
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| 11. | Slang. a condom. |
[tem-plit] | 1. | a pattern, mold, or the like, usually consisting of a thin plate of wood or metal, serving as a gauge or guide in mechanical work. |
| 2. | anything that determines or serves as a pattern; a model: You can use my notes as a template for employee evaluations. |
| 3. | Building Trades. a horizontal piece, as of timber or stone, in a wall, to receive and distribute the pressure of a girder, beam, or the like. |
| 4. | Shipbuilding. either of two wedges in each of the temporary blocks forming the support for the keel of a ship while building. |
| 5. | Aerial Photogrammetry. any object having lines, slots, or straightedges to represent lines radiating from the center of a photograph, used for graphic triangulation. |
| 6. | Genetics. a strand of DNA or RNA that serves as a pattern for the synthesis of a complementary strand of nucleic acid or protein. |
| 7. | Computers.
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| 8. | Also called safe. a marble base for a toilet. |
| safe (sāf) adj. saf·er, saf·est
[Middle English sauf, from Old French, from Latin salvus, healthy; see sol- in Indo-European roots.] safe'ly adv., safe'ness n. |
template tem·plate or tem·plet (těm'plĭt)
n.
A pattern or gauge, such as a thin metal plate with a cut pattern, used as a guide in making something accurately, as in woodworking.
A molecule, such as DNA, that serves as a pattern for the synthesis of a macromolecule, as of RNA.
| template (těm'plĭt) Pronunciation Key
A molecule of a nucleic acid, such as DNA, that serves as a pattern for the synthesis of another molecule of a nucleic acid. |
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.
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In addition to the idioms beginning with safe, also see better safe than sorry; on the safe side; play it safe.
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