safe

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Free from danger or injury; undamaged or unhurt.
• adjective Not exposed to the threat of danger or harm.
• adjective Usable in specified conditions without being damaged. Often used in combination.
• adjective Free from risk; not liable to be lost; sure.
• adjective Affording protection.
• adjective Baseball Having reached a base without being put out, as a batter or base runner.
• noun A metal container usually having a lock, used for storing valuables.
• noun A repository for protecting stored items, especially a cooled compartment for perishable foods.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To render safe.
• To escort to safety; safeguard.
• Unharmed; unscathed; without having received injury or hurt: as, to arrive safe and sound; to bring goods safe to land.
• Free from risk or danger; secure from harm or liability to harm or injury: as, a safe place; a safe harbor; safe from disease, enemies, etc.
• Secure; not dangerous or liable to cause injury or harm; not likely to expose to danger: as, a safe bridge; the building was pronounced safe; the safe side of a file (the uncut side, also called the safe-edge).
• No longer dangerous; placed beyond the power of doing harm.
• Sound; whole; good.
• Trusty; trustworthy: as, a safe adviser.
• Sure; certain.
• Synonyms and Safe, Secure. These words once conformed in meaning to their derivations, safe implying free from danger present or prospective, and secure free from fear or anxiety about danger; they are so used in the quotation. Now the two words are essentially synonymous, except that secure is perhaps stronger, especially in emphasizing freedom from occasion to fear.
• noun Safety.
• noun A place or structure for the storage of money, papers, or valuables in safety from risk of theft or fire.
• noun A receptacle for the storage of meat and provisions. It is usually a skeleton frame of wood covered with fine wire netting to keep out insects.
• noun Any receptacle for storing things in safety: as, a match-safe, milk-safe, coin-safe, etc.
• noun A floating box or car for confining living fish.
• noun A sheet of lead with the sides turned up, placed under a plumbing fixture to catch moisture or fluids due to leaks or carelessness, and thus protect floors and ceilings.
• noun In saddlery, a piece of leather placed beneath a buckle to prevent chafing.
• noun In distilling, a closed vessel attached by a pipe to the worm of a still, for the retention of a sample of the product, to be subsequently inspected by excise officers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole.
• adjective Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous
• adjective Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody.
• adjective (Baseball) a hit which enables the batter to get to first base even if no error is made by the other side.
• noun 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.
• noun A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
• transitive verb obsolete To render safe; to make right.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Not in danger; free from harm's reach.
• adjective Free from risk; harmless, riskless.
• adjective Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
• adjective baseball When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.
• adjective Properly secured; secure.
• adjective Not in danger from the specified source of harm.
• adjective UK, slang Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation.
• adjective Reliable.
• adjective Cautious.
• noun A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
• noun slang A condom.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun strongbox where valuables can be safely kept
• adjective (of an undertaking) secure from risk
• noun contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
• adjective having reached a base without being put out
• adjective financially sound